To achieve adequate participant enrolment, the geographical area previously studied has been extended to include two additional small towns.
Cotton's commitment to girls' education in sub Saharan Africa began in 1991, when she realized that poverty, rather than cultural barriers, was the main reason for girls' low school enrolment in rural areas.
Though one civil servant we met blamed "cultural" factors for lower levels of enrolment in rural areas, the classrooms of Ninkogo, the local school we visited, were packed, with the youngest in the nursery just two years old and headteacher Musah Mariama Ariatin awaiting completion of a new building that will enable her to split classes of between 100 and 200 children in half.
In the second phase of the study, we examined the likelihood of expanding enrolment to new areas.
Unless policy makers can maintain relatively equal enrolment from all areas of the population, the NHIS will face stability problems in the future.
As about 80% of Cambodia's population lives in rural areas, we can expect higher enrolment rates in rural areas.
Before the disaster, school enrolment rates in this area were among the lowest in Pakistan.
The study area, participants, enrolment, study design, randomization and sample size estimate have been previously described[ 18].
Pre-school development is regarded as the most neglected area and enrolment to kindergarten in the priority areas remained low at 16,5% of all children who are eligible to attend.
While Madagascar has made steady progress in the educational area (net enrolment rates increased from 65% in 1995 to 82% in 2003), one in every five children still does not go to school.
