1. Readers Club Survey
Analysis

2. Survey done by- Team E
• Nirupam Vinod (leader)
• Vishnu V Kumar
• Sharan Kishore
• Krishnaprasad
• Anjana C.P

3. Readers Club Survey
• The Readers Club Survey was conducted
during December – February as part of the
project. A total of 19 students were
surveyed and their analysis was prepared.
There were 15 students from CBSE
schools and 4 from State schools. All the
respondents had Malayalam as their
Mother Tongue. The complete analysis is
as follows -

4. Classes
16%
47% 11%
CLASS 6
5% CLASS 7
CLASS 8
CLASS 9
21% CLASS 10

5. Are you a boy/ girl?
42%
58% BOYS
GIRLS

6. Leisure activity of students
16%
26%
READING
10% MUSIC
SPORTS
0% GOING OUT
COMPUTER/INTERNET
16% TELEVISION
32%

7. Do you enjoy reading?
11%
Yes
No
89%

8. Reason for not reading
5% 5%
0%
Parents do not allow
Books not available
I do read books
I don’t like it
don’t have time
90%

9. Preferred Language
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
English Hindi Malayalam

10. Reason for reading
5%
45%
40% Teachers Insistence
10% For Information
To improve GK
For Pleasure

11. Average reading in a week
7
6
5
4
7
3 6
2
1 2 2 2
0 0
ONCE TWICE THRICE 4-5 TIMES DAILY RARELY

12. Duration of reading
More than 3 hours
2-3 hours
1-2 hours
Less than 1 hour
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

13. All the schools have libraries in their schools and a majority of
students visit their libraries other than their Library periods.
Do you have a library in your Do you visit the library other
school? than your library periods?
0% 11%
Yes Yes
100% No 89% No

14. Purpose of visiting library other than their
Library periods
0%
5% 5%
16%
Accompanying a friend
To get books issued
To refer to a book
74% Consult the libarian
Never visit

15.  Almost 58% of the students visit other libraries and for a
majority of students School Library is the source for getting
reading materials(58%)
 All the students borrow books from the school library and 74%
of them take Recreations such as Novels, Stories etc.
 English is the most read language(89%) followed by
Malayalam(37%) and Hindi(11%).
 GK and Fact books are the most referred books (63%) followed
by Encyclopedias(53%) and Dictionaries(37%).
 News papers are read by all the students while only 68% of the
students read Magazines. The Hindu is the most read
paper(68%) while Mathrubhumi and Malayalamanorama are
read by 63% and 26% of the students respectively.

16.  79% of the students get the news papers
and magazines through Subscription at
home. Sports is the most read section
(63%) followed by Editorial(37%). Local
News is the next most read section.
National News and International News
are read in small quantities.
 The students were asked to rank the
books. Among our respondents General
Knowledge was the most ranked.

17. Ranking of type of books
Biographies
9% 7% Poems
7% 7%
Comics
9%
10% General Knowledge
Art
11%
10% Environment
7% Fiction
6%
8% 9% Drama
Jokes
Sports
Science
Computer

18.  63% of the students said that they have a library at home.
74% of the students said that they write the reviews of the
books that they have read.
 37% of the students read 3-4 books in a month. 26% of the
students read 5-6 books while 21% of the students read 1-2
books in a month. 11& of the students read 7-8 books in a
month and 5% read more than 9 books in a month.
 37% of the students pick a book by reading its review while for
others Friends opinion counts. 26% of the students just picks
up the book randomly. 11% of the students choose the books
because of their Parents recommendation.
 42% of the students said that they read books on internet while
others said that they don’t read them because of different
reasons some of them being that they don’t like it, they are not
aware and no internet connection.

19. Main sources for information
Internet
Friends/Teachers
CD/DVD
Library
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

20. Rate the collection in your Library
5%
21%
16%
Excellent
Very Good
Good
Ssatisfactory
21% Needs Improvement
37%

21.  All the students agreed that reading is very important
for students. 53% of the students agreed to the talk
that is going on in the public- that reading is
diminishing.
 58% of the students have no preference to the
reading times while 26% of the students said that
they prefer reading at night.
 Enid Blyton, Charles Dickens, Chetan Bagat, Roald
Dahl and many more authors made it to the list of the
students favorite authors. Books written by these
authors and also a few extras were there in the list of
Favorite books.

22. How to improve reading habit and library usage
 First of all the school libraries need to be
made a attractive place so that students feel
visiting the library
 Books available in the library is also
important. Studies are to be done to assess
the taste of students and the books suitable
for the students to be made available.
 Librarian and teachers should motivate the
students to read by making them aware of
the benefits
 Competitions and programmes must be there
to attract students
 Motivation like rewards and prizes for their

23.  Survey collected by: Nirupam, Anjana
CP, Sharan Kishore
 Data Entry :
Anjana, Krishnaprasad, Vishnu V Kumar
 Analysis of Data: Nirupam, Vishnu V
Kumar, Sharan Kishore
 Presentation by: Nirupam Vinod

24. Thanks
 Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan for the
infrastructure and other facilities
 Our Principal madam for the encouragement and
support
 Our Teacher for their guidance
 Our Guide Mr. Mujib Rahiman, Librarian for giving
this opportunity to be a part of the project
 Our parents for their support and love
 Members of Readers Club for their help
 All the participants of this survey