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 "meta": {
  "dossier": "gender",
  "product": "gender",
  "source": "National Sample Survey, National Statistics Office, MoSPI (75th round, 2017-18), as reprinted in MoSPI's Women and Men in India 2025 (table 3.12.1)",
  "agency": "National Sample Survey, National Statistics Office, MoSPI (75th round, 2017-18)",
  "compendiumTable": "3.12.1",
  "indicatorCode": 68,
  "base": "as published",
  "frequency": "cross-sectional",
  "unit": "years",
  "vintage": "2026-10-09",
  "geo": "IND",
  "latestPeriod": "2017-18 (July to June)",
  "releaseDate": "2026-04-29",
  "revisionPolicy": "Each indicator is final as its underlying source publishes; the compendium is a curated cross-source portrait, never a single survey.",
  "coverage": "Average years completed in formal education (pre-primary or above)",
  "periodLabels": {
   "2017-07-01": "2017-18"
  },
  "cut": "Rural or urban, sex and age",
  "note": "MoSPI's compendium reprints this table from National Sample Survey, National Statistics Office, MoSPI (75th round, 2017-18); the figures are that agency's. Values printed as \"-\" (no observation) or \"NR\" (not reported) are not baked; meta.omitted counts them.",
  "omitted": {}
 },
 "dates": [
  "2017-07-01"
 ],
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   "name": "gender_t68_rural__male__15_years_and_above__all_india",
   "label": "Rural, Male, 15 years and above, All India",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "unit": "years",
   "data": [
    9.2
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   "group": "Rural",
   "geo": "All India"
  },
  "rural__male__25_years_and_above__all_india": {
   "name": "gender_t68_rural__male__25_years_and_above__all_india",
   "label": "Rural, Male, 25 years and above, All India",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "unit": "years",
   "data": [
    8.8
   ],
   "group": "Rural",
   "geo": "All India"
  },
  "rural__female__15_years_and_above__all_india": {
   "name": "gender_t68_rural__female__15_years_and_above__all_india",
   "label": "Rural, Female, 15 years and above, All India",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "unit": "years",
   "data": [
    8.6
   ],
   "group": "Rural",
   "geo": "All India"
  },
  "rural__female__25_years_and_above__all_india": {
   "name": "gender_t68_rural__female__25_years_and_above__all_india",
   "label": "Rural, Female, 25 years and above, All India",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "unit": "years",
   "data": [
    7.9
   ],
   "group": "Rural",
   "geo": "All India"
  },
  "rural__person__15_years_and_above__all_india": {
   "name": "gender_t68_rural__person__15_years_and_above__all_india",
   "label": "Rural, Person, 15 years and above, All India",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "unit": "years",
   "data": [
    9
   ],
   "group": "Rural",
   "geo": "All India"
  },
  "rural__person__25_years_and_above__all_india": {
   "name": "gender_t68_rural__person__25_years_and_above__all_india",
   "label": "Rural, Person, 25 years and above, All India",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "unit": "years",
   "data": [
    8.4
   ],
   "group": "Rural",
   "geo": "All India"
  },
  "urban__male__15_years_and_above__all_india": {
   "name": "gender_t68_urban__male__15_years_and_above__all_india",
   "label": "Urban, Male, 15 years and above, All India",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "unit": "years",
   "data": [
    11.2
   ],
   "group": "Urban",
   "geo": "All India"
  },
  "urban__male__25_years_and_above__all_india": {
   "name": "gender_t68_urban__male__25_years_and_above__all_india",
   "label": "Urban, Male, 25 years and above, All India",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "unit": "years",
   "data": [
    11.1
   ],
   "group": "Urban",
   "geo": "All India"
  },
  "urban__female__15_years_and_above__all_india": {
   "name": "gender_t68_urban__female__15_years_and_above__all_india",
   "label": "Urban, Female, 15 years and above, All India",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "unit": "years",
   "data": [
    10.6
   ],
   "group": "Urban",
   "geo": "All India"
  },
  "urban__female__25_years_and_above__all_india": {
   "name": "gender_t68_urban__female__25_years_and_above__all_india",
   "label": "Urban, Female, 25 years and above, All India",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "unit": "years",
   "data": [
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   ],
   "group": "Urban",
   "geo": "All India"
  },
  "urban__person__15_years_and_above__all_india": {
   "name": "gender_t68_urban__person__15_years_and_above__all_india",
   "label": "Urban, Person, 15 years and above, All India",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "unit": "years",
   "data": [
    10.9
   ],
   "group": "Urban",
   "geo": "All India"
  },
  "urban__person__25_years_and_above__all_india": {
   "name": "gender_t68_urban__person__25_years_and_above__all_india",
   "label": "Urban, Person, 25 years and above, All India",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "unit": "years",
   "data": [
    10.8
   ],
   "group": "Urban",
   "geo": "All India"
  },
  "total__male__15_years_and_above__all_india": {
   "name": "gender_t68_total__male__15_years_and_above__all_india",
   "label": "Total, Male, 15 years and above, All India",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "unit": "years",
   "data": [
    9.9
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   "group": "Total",
   "geo": "All India"
  },
  "total__male__25_years_and_above__all_india": {
   "name": "gender_t68_total__male__25_years_and_above__all_india",
   "label": "Total, Male, 25 years and above, All India",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "unit": "years",
   "data": [
    9.7
   ],
   "group": "Total",
   "geo": "All India"
  },
  "total__female__15_years_and_above__all_india": {
   "name": "gender_t68_total__female__15_years_and_above__all_india",
   "label": "Total, Female, 15 years and above, All India",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "unit": "years",
   "data": [
    9.4
   ],
   "group": "Total",
   "geo": "All India"
  },
  "total__female__25_years_and_above__all_india": {
   "name": "gender_t68_total__female__25_years_and_above__all_india",
   "label": "Total, Female, 25 years and above, All India",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "unit": "years",
   "data": [
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   "group": "Total",
   "geo": "All India"
  },
  "total__person__15_years_and_above__all_india": {
   "name": "gender_t68_total__person__15_years_and_above__all_india",
   "label": "Total, Person, 15 years and above, All India",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "unit": "years",
   "data": [
    9.7
   ],
   "group": "Total",
   "geo": "All India"
  },
  "total__person__25_years_and_above__all_india": {
   "name": "gender_t68_total__person__25_years_and_above__all_india",
   "label": "Total, Person, 25 years and above, All India",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "unit": "years",
   "data": [
    9.3
   ],
   "group": "Total",
   "geo": "All India"
  }
 }
}