Costing out Educational Needs for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
This study was undertaken for costing out education needs for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa based on location, gender, district and grade. The sample consisted of 778 schools, including 364 females and 414 males. The study used descriptive statistics for analysis. It was found that rural students get slightly less pocket money than urban students. The cost of average monthly stationery, uniform cost, teacher cost and total cost for urban student was higher than for rural students. District Haripur was found to be the most successful school district. It was further found that better results need good financing. The study also confirmed that the girl student cost is less than a boy student. It was also concluded that the pocket money on average increases with grade. There was no significant difference of stationery cost across grades while grade one and grade four students’ cost on uniform was slightly higher than other grades.
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Costing Out, Primary School, Rural Schools, Urban Schools, T-Statistics, Regression Analysis
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(1) Noor Jehan
Assistant Professor,Department of Economics,Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, KP, Pakistan.
(2) Muhammad Idris
Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, KP, Pakistan.
(3) Sajjad Ahmad Jan
Assistant Professor,Department of Economics,University of Peshawar, Peshawar, KP. Pakistan.
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APA : Jehan, N., Idris, M., & Jan, S. A. (2019). Costing out Educational Needs for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Global Social Sciences Review, IV(II), 34-42. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-II).05
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CHICAGO : Jehan, Noor, Muhammad Idris, and Sajjad Ahmad Jan. 2019. "Costing out Educational Needs for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa." Global Social Sciences Review, IV (II): 34-42 doi: 10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-II).05
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