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Percentage Pakistan Punjab Sindh KP Balochistan

Adult literacy

Male 69 69 72 67 58

Female 45 50 45 30 18

Total 57 59 59 48 39

NER (5�9) primary

Male 61 64 56 59 54

Female 54 62 48 48 35

Total 57 60 52 54 45

NER (11�13) middle

Male 40 39 39 44 36

Female 35 40 32 31 17

Total 38 39 36 38 28

NER (14�15) high

Male 28 28 28 31 19

Female 23 27 21 18 7

Total 26 28 25 25 14

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Variable Indicator Data source

Access Gross enrolment rate for 6�10-year-olds PSLM5, ASER6

Attainment Survival rate to the fifth grade NEMIS7

Achievement

Literacy rate of over ten-year-olds Achievement scores of fifth graders in reading English and Urdu and ability to perform basic arithmetic

PSLM ASER

Gender parity

Gender parity index based on ratio of female and male students enrolled, and those who have survived to the fifth grade

NEMIS

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School facilities Net enrolment rate Survival rate

Girls Boys Girls Boys Electricity .552** .386** .318** .197* Water .639** .545** .204* .201* Toilets .626** .488** .481** .048 Boundary walls .628** .481** .336** .105 Satisfactory building conditions

.604** .486** .441 -.009

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