•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Lack of money to pay for education;
Disinterest of the child in education;
Lack of a birth certificate;
Child’s assistance is necessary in the fields;
School is too far away;
Child assists his or her mother;
Child has fallen behind the school curriculum;
Lack of documents.
Hence the most effective way to enhance school attendance would be social aid. Assistance
to receive new birth certificates and restore lost documents would also help to reduce truancy.
Some cases also require support to catch up with the curriculum. 39 percent of interviewed
families own their own house, while 61 percent (642 families) do not.
63 percent of families with houses did not encounter problems in legalizing their property. In
Panfilov district, however, only 29 percent of respondents own houses (as opposed to Chui
and Sokuluk districts with 48 and 46 percent respectively), and 60 percent of them complain
about registration difficulties. Table 15 presents this information in more detail.
The following problems in housing registration were mentioned by respondents (ranked according to frequency):
• Housing is not registered as property;
• Problems in registering residency;
• Lack of Kyrgyz citizenship;
• No house register;
• House registered by a relative because owner did not have Kyrgyz citizenship;
• Lack of required documents;
• Letter of attorney for registration was lost, problems with real estate registration;
• Registration was delayed;
• No legal basis for real estate document registration;
• Lack of money to pay fees.
Many respondents found it difficult to describe their registration problems. Unfamiliarity with
procedures or lack of documents proving Kyrgyz citizenship were the most common problems
mentioned.
Table 15: Problems encountered by respondents
PROBLEMS
yes
no
Panfilov
no
yes
no
yes
no
85.46%
55
217
20
317
79
371
63.07%
55
76
20
134
79
53
54
315
5.10% 1005 94.90%
29.75% 744 70.25%
2
7
270
265
42
1
295
336
10
307
440
143
148
13.98%
15
257
15
322
118
332
154
14.54%
905
Problems registering
houses among those
possessing a house
154
36.93%
263
Problems renting land
Legal problems
Sokuluk
yes
Problems registering
houses
Problems accessing
medical services
Chui
TOTAL
911
86.02%
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