Education Status of Female in Dalit Community (A Case Study of Syanikhal VDC, Salyan)

Abstract

The dissertation entitled "Educational status of female in Dalit community" submittedto the Central Department of Population(CDPS) is based on primary data, collectedfrom 3 wards of Syanikhal V.D.C of Salyan District in January 2010. This includes100 Dalit female from each household as sample size and total 757 populations fromtheir household members. The main objective of this study is to identify theeducational status of the 757 sampled populations. For this purpose, further it is doneto find out the causes of drop out of Dalit female student from the school, and to findout thecauses of illiteracy of Dalit female. For this purpose, further it is done toidentify literacy status, causes of illiteracy, drop out level and causes of drop out. To conduct this survey, semi-structured questionnaire was designed for the datacollection. Most of the questions were pre-coded and some open questions had alsobeen included in the targeted population from whom the data were collected. From this survey, a total of 757 household populations including 364 (48.0 %) maleand 393 (51.9%) female were collected. Similarly majority of populations 61.5percent are in active age group i.e. 15-49, followed by 29.19 percent of age group 0-14 and 9.20 from the age above 60. Majority of populationare depend on agriculture(40.3%)and than students(33.7%),11.38 percent people are involved in service 4.1percent are in Business, 3.8 percent and 6.2 percent are involved in others. Thehighest percent of population having income source is agriculture(61.6%) followedby service 18.2percent, business 6.3percent, wedge 5.9percent and other 8.1percentit is found that out of 100 sampled household all of them (100%) household have theirown land but very few in quantity i.e. less than 10 ropanies. In the field of literacy, itis found that 36 percent are literate whereas 64 percent are illiterate. Similarly, 37.0percent respondents have gained their literacy from non-formal source and 62.9percent respondents have gained their literacy from formal source i.e. school. Out ofliterate 48.5 percent have achievedprimary education followed by lower secondaryand secondary level 28.8 percent and 10.6 percent respectively. Only 8.5 percent havepassed the S.L.C. level and 3.6 percent intermediate.