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The National Child Development Study (NCDS) is a continuing, multi-disciplinary longitudinal study which follows the lives of 17,415 people born in England, Scotland and Wales from 17,205 women during the week of 3–9 March 1958. The results from this study helped reduce infant mortality and were instrumental in improving maternity services in ...
A study published by the Research Journal of Commerce, Economics, and Social Sciences, discusses the importance of education. The study compares Indonesia, Malaysia and Pakistan. The study found that the literacy rate in Indonesia is 90%, in Malaysia it's 89% and in Pakistan it's 60.65%, which is significantly lower.
The National Education Assessment System (NEAS), (Urdu: قومی ماموریہَ برائے نظامِ تشخیصِ تعلیم) was an initiative of the Government of Pakistan aimed at identifying gaps, challenges, and diagnosing the strengths and weaknesses of the education system by measuring students' learning achievements. It sought to ...
NCDS may refer to: Nabakrushna Choudhury Centre for Development Studies (NCDS), Bhubaneswar, think-tank of the Government of Odisha National Child Development Study , a longitudinal study in Great Britain
The department’s main responsibilities include creating policies, plans and programs to ensure the accessibility and availability of education in Pakistan. It is also a provider of many technical, vocational and professional skills and training that are needed to satisfy the national and international standards of the employment market. [3]
The 1986 survey was conducted by the International Centre for Child Studies and called Youthscan which was then taken over for the following surveys by the Social Statistics Research Unit (SSRU), now known as the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS). [3] By 2016 there were 770 papers and books published about the 1970 British Cohort Study. [4]
[13] [14] [15] Another UNICEF report claims 70% of girls in Pakistan are married before the age of 16. [16] As with India and Africa, the UNICEF data for Pakistan is from a small sample survey in the 1990s. The exact number of child marriages in Pakistan below the age of 13 is unknown, but rising according to the United Nations. [17]
UNDP Pakistan (2017). "Fact Sheet 'Uneashing the potential of a young Pakistan' " (PDF). National Human Development Report 2017. United Nations Development Programme. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 March 2023.