I'm going through some of the background section of the data collected for the colleges, here are (partial) results for two colleges, coded as I 1 and W 1 to keep them confidential.
The questions in the chart are:
1) Distance between the student's house and Pune (the nearest major city of over 3MM people).
2) Financial Background. Parent’s income source.
Farmers earn about 2500INR/month, government workers can earn triple that, private jobs
(rural areas) like mechanic or laborer about the same income as farmers, sometimes less.
3) Educational background of the family.
Has anyone in the family completed (up to) high school graduation?
One surprise: Many of the parents are farmers, but they are also high school graduates!
This was very unexpected; I will dig around more for possible explanations. From 2005-2008, I worked in Andhra Pradesh among rural immigrants who came to work in the city of Hyderabad. The group with whom I worked with most were day laborers, they were the grown sons and daughters of farmers. Some of them finished 5th standard, and I met two who finished 7th standard. No one had a high school diploma. Is Maharastra really that different from A.P.? Or am I wrong about A.P. and more farmers have high school diplomas.
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