Primary education and its impact on literacy rate: A division wise comparative study of Bangladesh

Abstract

This study investigates the impact of a number of educational institutions and students per teacher on the literacy rate. Data of 489 Upazilasrelating to the dependent (literacy rate) and independent variables (no. of educational institutions and students per teacher of different types of primary and equivalent educational institutions) of 8 Divisions were collected from District Statistics 2011 of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. The Ordinary Least Square (OLS) method is used in this study. This research found that a number of government primary schools had a significant positive relationship with the literacy rate in Barishal, Chittagong, Khulna, and Mymensingh Divisions.

Keywords: {'name': 'Literacy rate, number, primary schools, students per teacher'}

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Sujan Chandra Paul
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Md Arif Hosen
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Jyotirmay Biswas
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Shahadat Hossain
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