ASER 2008 - Rural: Annual Status of Education Report

Analyzing the state of schooling and basic learning in India

ASER 2008’s rapid assessment survey aimed to get reliable estimates of the status of children’s schooling and basic learning at the district level. It also sought to measure the change in these basic learning and school statistics over that in 2007. This report presents the complete findings of ASER 2008.

ASER 2008, in comparison to previous years, is lean in the number of variables on which information has been collected. In addition to the survey findings, the report aims to also describe the approach, experience, challenges and learning in the following areas:

• Gathering district level estimates;
• Conducting the survey in the village, hamlet and household;
• Sampling households in hamlets;
• Testing the tools for the survey;
• Applying the testing tools.