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Nonparticipant observation and interview
Dunng wslts to the wllage. ~t was observed that some students who were enrolled In
school had absented themselves from school These ch~ldren were InteMewed as to
the cause of not attending the school
(IV) Quantltatlve
Based on the f~nd~ngs of the qualltatlve data collected, a structured questlonnalre was
prepared and used for lntervlewlng 160 randomly selected people from the wllage As
ment~oned earller a slngle structured quest~onna~re covenng all the Issues under
health, educat~on and soclal aspects was used In the f~eld
jb) Other epidem~oloqical methods
The follow~ng methods were used to collect data on the Issues under the aspect of
educat~on -
[I) Census
Data on the l~teracy status of the village populat~on were obtained In a predes~gned and
Pretested structured form wh~le tak~ng census The ~nformat~on regarding school
dropout was collected from all ch~ldren between 5-20 years of age lrrespectlve of the
time of dropout
(11) School records
The school records were sc~tlnized for dropout for the academic year 1995-1995.
Information on the magnitude of dropout was collected using two d~fferent methods