Annual Status of Education Report: ASER-Pakistan 2012; national

At its core, ASER is a citizen-led household based assessment that complements education assessments conducted by the government. ASER 2012 covers 136 out of 145 rural districts, being the largest data set on learning levels of children aged 5-16 years in government and non-state schools and disaggregated by gender. The ASER Report highlights learning levels for Urdu/Sindhi/Pashto (USP), English and arithmetic as indicators of educational outcome quality.