Table A4.
Absence rate of teachers & student-teacher ratios in rural public schools by state by year.
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| Year 2003 | Year 2010 | Change | Year 2003 | Year 2010 | Change | Year 2003 | Year 2010 | Change† | |
| Andhra Pradesh | 23.38 | 21.48 | −1.90 | 27.51 | 25.79 | −1.71 | 35.90 | 32.85 | −3.05 |
| Assam | 36.15 | 26.26 | −9.89*** | 28.21 | 36.07 | 7.86*** | 44.18 | 48.92 | 4.74 |
| Bihar | 39.42 | 28.69 | −10.73*** | 72.44 | 69.01 | −3.43 | 119.57 | 96.78 | −22.79 |
| Chattisgarh | 30.47 | 14.20 | −16.28*** | 42.12 | 33.05 | −9.07*** | 60.59 | 38.52 | −22.07 |
| Gujarat | 17.92 | 16.14 | −1.77* | 40.42 | 31.94 | −8.48*** | 49.24 | 38.09 | −11.15 |
| Haryana | 21.07 | 17.75 | −3.31** | 34.40 | 36.34 | 1.94 | 43.58 | 44.18 | 0.60 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 22.67 | 30.74 | 8.07*** | 18.04 | 21.73 | 3.69** | 23.33 | 31.38 | 8.04 |
| Jharkhand | 43.50 | 45.84 | 2.34 | 52.30 | 42.84 | −9.47*** | 92.57 | 79.09 | −13.48 |
| Karnataka | 22.60 | 23.93 | 1.33 | 29.07 | 23.62 | −5.45*** | 37.56 | 31.05 | −6.51 |
| Kerala | 19.60 | 15.79 | −3.81*** | 24.84 | 24.49 | −0.36 | 30.90 | 29.08 | −1.82 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 18.19 | 26.34 | 8.16*** | 37.19 | 46.57 | 9.39*** | 45.45 | 63.23 | 17.78 |
| Maharastra | 15.43 | 14.12 | −1.31 | 34.54 | 28.66 | −5.88*** | 40.84 | 33.38 | −7.47 |
| Orissa | 21.69 | 14.24 | −7.46*** | 47.01 | 36.63 | −10.38*** | 60.04 | 42.72 | −17.32 |
| Punjab | 36.66 | 13.54 | −23.13*** | 30.80 | 31.43 | 0.63 | 48.63 | 36.36 | −12.28 |
| Rajasthan | 25.13 | 22.72 | −2.42* | 38.91 | 32.05 | −6.86*** | 51.97 | 41.47 | −10.50 |
| Tamilnadu | 20.43 | 12.92 | −7.51*** | 29.56 | 25.85 | −3.71** | 37.15 | 29.69 | −7.47 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 26.72 | 31.21 | 4.49*** | 69.37 | 47.40 | −21.97*** | 94.66 | 68.90 | −25.76 |
| Uttaranchal | 32.29 | 21.02 | −11.27*** | 24.49 | 31.02 | 6.54** | 36.17 | 39.28 | 3.12 |
| West Bengal | 26.41 | 20.97 | −5.44*** | 58.23 | 41.61 | −16.62*** | 79.12 | 52.65 | −26.47 |
| India | 26.29 | 23.64 | −2.64*** | 47.19 | 39.80 | −7.39*** | 64.02 | 52.13 | −11.89 |
Source: Authors' calculations; DISE Notes: All figures are weighted by SCR's rural population. Absence figures for 2003 differ from the figures in the Kremer et al. (2005) paper. This is because the urban schools are removed from the sample. We do not conduct inference on the changes in “Effective student-teacher ratio” because the data on total number of teachers are obtained from administrative (DISE) data.
†We do not conduct inference on the changes in “Effective student-teacher ratio” because the data on total number of teachers are obtained from administrative (DISE) data. *** Significant at 1%, ** significant at 5%, * significant at 10%.