NSO: Majority of children not attending school 'lacks personal interest'

Lack of personal interest was the common reason of children to not attend school, according to a National Statistics Office (NSO) survey.

Coming from the 2011 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey (APIS), NSO said in a statement that 51.3 percent or majority of the children aged 6 to 11 years old who are not attending school said that “lack of personal interest” is their reason for not going to school. NSO added that illness and disability ranked second in the list with 15.2 percent and “high cost of education” as third with 10.5 percent.