describe the difference between male and female child enrollment
Answers
a. The education level of adults in the household has a signicant impact on the enrollment of children in a
country.
b. It has been estimated that In India, there is a 2.5 percentage point difference between male and female
enrollment for children from the richest households, the difference is 34 percentage points for children
from the poorest households ( 2000 data)
c. In 2005, the Prime Minister pointed out that only 47 out of 100 children enrolled in class I reach class VIII,
putting the dropout rate at 52.78 %
d. It is estimated that at least 35 million, and possibly as many as 60 million, children aged 6–14 years are
not in school.
e. Reasons for such a differences are poverty, biasness towards male education, high drop out rates among
girls.