Literacy Rate: Kerala data was reported at 94.000 % in 12-01-2011. This records an increase from the previous number of 90.860 % for 12-01-2001. Literacy Rate: Kerala data is updated decadal, averaging 78.850 % from Dec 1951 (Median) to 12-01-2011, with 7 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 94.000 % in 12-01-2011 and a record low of 47.180 % in 12-01-1951. Literacy Rate: Kerala data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. The data is categorized under India Premium Database’s Education Sector – Table IN.EDA001: Literacy Rate.

Analysis of ‘Education in India’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/rajanand/education-in-india on 12 November 2021.

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Context

When India got independence from British in 1947 the literacy rate was 12.2% and as per the recent census 2011 it is 74.0%. Although it looks an accomplishment, still many people are there without access to education.

It would be interesting to know the current status of the Indian education system.

Content

This dataset contains district and state wise Indian primary and secondary school education data for 2015-16.

Granularity: Annual

List of files:

1. 2015_16_Districtwise.csv ( 680 observations and 819 variables )
2. 2015_16_Statewise_Elementary.csv ( 36 observations and 816 variables )
3. 2015_16_Statewise_Secondary.csv ( 36 observations and 630 variables )

Acknowledgements

Ministry of Human Resource Development (DISE) has shared the dataset here and also published some reports.

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Inspiration

This dataset provides the complete information about primary and secondary education. There are many inferences can be made from this dataset. There are few things I would like to understand from this dataset.

1. Drop out ratio in primary and secondary education. (Govt. has made law that every child under age 14 should get free compulsary education.)
2. Various factors affecting examination results of the students.
3. What are all the factors that makes the difference (in literacy rate) between Kerala and Bihar?
4. What could be done to improve the female literacy rate and literacy rate in rural area?

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Literacy in India has been increasing as more and more people receive a better education, but it is still far from all-encompassing. In 2023, the degree of literacy in India was about 77 percent, with the majority of literate Indians being men. It is estimated that the global literacy rate for people aged 15 and above is about 86 percent. How to read a literacy rateIn order to identify potential for intellectual and educational progress, the literacy rate of a country covers the level of education and skills acquired by a country’s inhabitants. Literacy is an important indicator of a country’s economic progress and the standard of living – it shows how many people have access to education. However, the standards to measure literacy cannot be universally applied. Measures to identify and define illiterate and literate inhabitants vary from country to country: In some, illiteracy is equated with no schooling at all, for example. Writings on the wallGlobally speaking, more men are able to read and write than women, and this disparity is also reflected in the literacy rate in India – with scarcity of schools and education in rural areas being one factor, and poverty another. Especially in rural areas, women and girls are often not given proper access to formal education, and even if they are, many drop out. Today, India is already being surpassed in this area by other emerging economies, like Brazil, China, and even by most other countries in the Asia-Pacific region. To catch up, India now has to offer more educational programs to its rural population, not only on how to read and write, but also on traditional gender roles and rights.