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6.4 Results
The results pertaming to the issues under the educational status 0' school age children,
obtained by both ethnographic and other epidern~ological methods are described In this
sectlon. For each Issue, the observations by ethnographic methods are followed by
results derlved by other ep~dem~olog~cal methods
6.4. f Importance of education
la) Ethnoqraphic methods
All the partlclpants of the focus group discuss~ons and those who were inte~ewed In-
depth felt that educatlon was essent~al for both girls and boys Most of the people who
were Interviewed w~th a structured questlonnalre (1551160, 96 8%) felt that education
helped In bulld~ng the character of thelr children Some (43 1%) thought that ~t also
helped them to get jobs Most of them (70 6%) were not particular about the nature of
jobs they would lhke the~r chhldren to get end thought any job would do whereas 19 3%
wanted their children to get government jobs Almost all of them wanted thelr sons to
complete standard X Only 5 0% wanted them to stop afler the X standard, while the
rest wanted therr to study further However wlth respect to girls, 12 5% thought that
educatton up to standard Vlll would be sufflclent for them, whlle 80 0% wanted them to
study beyond standard X
The perception of the community about the extstlng school and ~ts functlon~ng hndlrectly
brought out the Importance that the community gave to educatlon The people were
generally not very happy with the government school Many (58 8%) felt that leachers
should take more interest In the students, whlle many others (56 3%) felt that the