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Nepal is a country with historically large gender disparities in school attendance, where girls were much less likely than boys to receive a formal education. Since the 1980s the country has made remarkable progress toward gender parity in the education system so that the Millennium Development Goal of gender parity in primary and secondary education appears to be within reach. The trends in primary school attendance are discussed in detail in the article " Nepal: trends in primary education, 1980-2004 " that was posted on this site in March 2007. The present article takes a closer look at primary and secondary school attendance rates in Nepal. The data was collected in a Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) in 2001. DHS surveys are nationally representative household surveys that are carried out with support from the U.S. Agency for International Development. With the DHS data it is possible to examine disparities in the education system that go beyond gender. In Nepal, the...

Two Stata guides on this site have been updated. The guide to creating maps with Stata now covers the recently released module spmap by Maurizio Pisati, an update to his tmap module. Both spmap and tmap are free add-ons for the Stata statistical package. The guide to creating PNG images with Stata was also revised. Map created with spmap in Stata: length of country names Related articles Guide to creating maps with Stata Guide to creating PNG images with Stata Guide to integrating Stata and external text editors Guide to reading Statalist with Gmail Friedrich Huebler, 1 April 2007, Creative Commons License Permanent URL: http://huebler.blogspot.com/2007/04/updates-to-two-stata-guides.html