2023 ASER Survey – Key Findings
January 20 , 2024
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- This year’s survey puts the spotlight on youth aged 14 to 18 years in rural India which was last studied in the 2017 survey.
- Around 30% are already working, often for their parents.
- About one in four children in the 14-18 age group still cannot read a Std II-level text fluently in their regional language.
- Across enrolment categories, girls do better than boys in this respect.
- More girls aspire to continue studying after class 12 than boys.
- More than half struggle with division (3-digit by 1-digit) problems, a skill that is usually expected in Std III or IV.
- About 57% can read sentences in English; more than 73% among them can also tell their meanings.
- Boys do better than girls in both arithmetic and English reading.
- About 90% of surveyed households had smartphones.
- Of the surveyed children, almost 95% boys and 90% girls could use a smartphone.
- The 'basic' ASER survey was first implemented in 2005 and is conducted annually until 2014.
- Since, 2014, it switched to an alternate-year cycle in 2016.
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