Buraku Liberation News  May 2000 No.114

Appendix 1

Numbers of households by academic career

  

up to primary secondary higher never enrolled not known.

'93 government survey

55.3% 32.3% 7.6% 3.8%  1.1%

'85 government survey

64.0 28.2 5.7  1.5 0.6

'90 national census

31.6 45.4 21.2 0.2 1.6

* Academic career up to primary education include those who finished primary or junior high schools, and those who quit high schools.

* Academic career up to secondary education include those who finished high schools, and those who quit junior colleges, technical colleges or colleges.

* Academic career up to higher education include those who finished junior colleges, technical colleges, colleges or graduate schools, and those who quit graduate schools.

** In the '93 government survey, those who quit primary and secondary schools (2%) were included in the group of those who never enrolled schools, while the '90 national census included those who quit primary schools into the group of those who never enrolled schools.


Appendix 2

High School Enrollment Rates in the Targeted Dowa Areas

(survey conducted by the Ministry of Education)

<high schools and technical colleges>(%)
year  national average targeted Dowa areas gap

1963

66.8

30.0

36.8

1967

74.5

51.1

23.4

1971

85.0

72.8

12.2

1975

91.9

87.5

4.4

1979

94.0

89.0

5.0

1983

94.0

86.6

7.4

1985

94.1

87.3

6.8

1986

94.2

87.9

6.3

1987

94.3

88.3

6.0

1988

94.5

89.2

5.3

1989

94.7

89.5

5.2

1990

95.1

89.6

5.5

1991

95.4

90.2

5.2

1992

95.9

91.2

4.7

1993

96.2

91.9

4.3

1994

96.5

92.0

4.5

1995

96.7

92.4

4.3

1996

96.6

92.3

4.3

1997

96.5

92.0

4.5

Notes:

  1.  National average - according to the school basic survey.
    Targeted areas - according to the survey of enrollment percentages in the targeted Dowa areas.

  2.  Up to 1983, high school enrollment rate at the national level did not reflect the number of those who took the correspondence school courses.


Appendix 3

College Enrollment Percentages of the Targeted Dowa Areas
(survey conducted by the Ministry of Education)

<Colleges and Junior Colleges>(%)
year national average targeted Dowa areas gap

1979

37.4

14.2

23.2

1980

37.4

15.8

21.6

1981

36.9

16.8

20.1

1982

36.3

17.6

18.7

1983

35.1

16.5

18.6

1984

35.6

16.7

18.9

1985

30.5

19.1

11.4

1986

30.3

19.1

11.2

1987

31.0

19.3

11.7

1988

30.9

19.3

11.6

1989

30.6

19.8

10.8

1990

30.5

19.7

10.8

1991

31.6

19.9

11.7

1992

32.7

20.8

11.9

1993

34.5

22.6

11.9

1994

36.1

24.3

11.8

1995

37.6

24.7

12.9

1996

39.0

26.5

12.5

1997

40.7

28.6

12.1

Note: Since 1985, only those who went to colleges right after their graduation from high schools have been counted as those who enroll colleges.


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