Table 3 Per capita educational spending (in Indian Rupees.) during the current academic year of basic courses by gender and background characteristics in 6–22 age groups of India, 2017–18.

From: Predictors of the gender gap in household educational spending among school and college-going children in India

Characteristics	6–10			11–15			16–17			18–22			6–22
Characteristics	Boys	Girls	PRG	Boys	Girls	PRG	Boys	Girls	PRG	Boys	Girls	PRG	Boys	Girls	PRG
Residence
Rural	3855	3315	14	4896	4285	12	9736	7681	21	15,052	13,799	8	6192	5155	17
Urban	14,226	13,015	9	17,217	15,419	10	25,540	20,216	21	40,379	30,042	26	21402	17866	17
Religion
Hindu	6552	5605	14	8114	7180	12	14,907	11,594	22	24,812	20,756	16	10667	8737	18
Muslim	5232	4786	9	6519	6200	5	12,815	9669	25	21,628	15,992	26	8013	6872	14
Others	10,599	10,071	5	13,757	10,957	20	15,709	15,883	−1	26,973	29,638	−10	14810	13954	6
Caste
SC/ST	3402	3128	8	4770	4211	12	8720	7836	10	15,322	14,572	5	5868	5113	13
OBC	5820	4950	15	7134	6567	8	13,885	10,225	26	22,125	19,964	10	9299	7873	15
Others	11,880	10,772	9	14,238	12,180	14	21,438	18,087	16	35,499	25,998	27	17,860	14,604	18
HH Headship
Male headed	6526	5713	12	8134	7196	12	14,755	11,492	22	24,846	19,721	21	10,519	8520	19
Female headed	6411	5439	15	8412	7450	11	14,421	11,883	18	21,673	27,095	−25	10,143	10,507	−4
Education of HH head
Illiterate/primary	6518	5682	13	7075	6151	13	4046	3980	2	4234	6004	−42	6713	5850	13
Middle/secondary	—	—	—	10,059	9040	10	14,337	11,037	23	13,728	11,089	19	12,138	9984	18
Higher secondary and above	—	—	—	—	—	—	23,271	18,746	19	28,507	23,706	17	28,102	23,199	17
HH gender ratio
Only sons/daughters	7110	6786	5	8636	7846	9	15,979	12,455	22	27,456	23,949	13	11746	10137	14
Equal	7016	5823	17	9378	8729	7	15,490	13,615	12	22,337	19,600	12	10831	9463	13
Sons > daughters	4055	3388	16	5766	5632	2	9831	8737	11	16,354	14,457	12	6732	5862	13
Daughters > Sons	4801	3235	33	6696	5005	25	12,012	8729	27	14,637	14,245	3	7117	5799	19
HH type
Self-employed	6079	5413	11	7881	6991	11	13,513	11,247	17	19,533	18,211	7	9378	8181	13
Regular salary	13,998	12,121	13	15,803	13,996	11	24,210	16,782	31	32,122	28,132	12	18867	15898	16
Casual labour	2706	2471	9	3601	3263	9	7424	6825	8	13,866	13,074	6	4540	4037	11
Others	9478	6543	31	9731	8669	11	21,542	15,896	26	54,369	31,193	43	22680	13656	40
HH size
≤3	11,119	9661	13	11,384	9970	12	19,218	15,095	21	40,245	30,999	23	20265	15979	21
4–5	6881	6719	2	8666	8214	5	15,915	12,785	20	23,021	21,401	7	10730	9797	9
6–7	5210	4305	17	6652	5579	16	10,352	9255	11	16,516	15,311	7	7491	6403	15
≥8	5575	4282	23	6667	5846	12	11,266	9343	17	16,421	13,951	15	7491	6110	18
Type of institution
Government	1412	1239	12	2873	2852	1	6841	6298	8	12,340	11,662	5	3734	3388	9
Private	14,415	13,819	4	17,236	15,896	8	23,857	18,659	22	35,807	29,717	17	20247	17723	12
MPCE quintile
Poorest	2456	2046	17	3727	3323	11	6771	5763	15	9979	10,766	−8	3972	3495	12
Poorer	4330	3651	16	5198	4870	6	9343	7485	20	12,212	10,859	11	5946	5240	12
Middle	5370	4700	12	6425	5747	11	11,701	10,194	13	17,089	15,950	7	7772	6888	11
Richer	7343	6153	16	8480	7581	11	11,830	11,309	4	19,129	17,864	7	10044	8755	13
Richest	14,811	14,239	4	16,757	14,657	13	26,722	20,272	24	42,412	33,075	22	23069	18921	18
Total	6516	5688	13	8157	7222	11	14,725	11,536	22	24,587	20,774	16	10,488	8728	17

PRG percentage relative gap, defined as \(\frac{{\overline X _{{\mathrm{Boys}}} - \overline X _{{\mathrm{Girls}}}}}{{\overline X _{{\mathrm{Boys}}}}} \times 100\);—denotes sample size less than 30.
Bold values represent values for all over India.

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Table 3 Per capita educational spending (in Indian Rupees.) during the current academic year of basic courses by gender and background characteristics in 6–22 age groups of India, 2017–18.

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