LAHORE, Dec 28: For the first time, data about all kinds of public and private sector institutions in the country, including religious seminaries, is being collected.

Under the maiden national education census, every minute detail about the institutions except those in Kashmir, Northern Areas and Fata, will be collected, compiled and tabulated, Federal Secretary Asad Elahi of the Statistics Division told journalists at a press conference at the Agriculture Census Organization (ACO) office here on Wednesday.

The census, he said, would cover the pre-primary, primary, elementary, middle, high, secondary, higher secondary, intermediate, degree, home economics, business management, information technology, law, agriculture, fine arts, education, medical and dental, pharmacy, engineering, accountancy, mono and polytechnic, vocational, special education, nursing, homoeopathic, Tibbia and Ayurvadic, veterinary and animal sciences schools, colleges and universities, non-formal basic education, distance education besides madressahs.

It would have number, gender and academic session or year-wise enrolment of students and the drop-out rate, institutions, teachers, equipment and other facilities besides the gender-wise strength of teaching staff, their educational qualifications and experience.