ABSTRACT

“Education for all” remains a distant goal for several African countries where the major problem remains access to schooling. For sub-Saharan Africa, the proportions attending school were 83.3 percent for boys and 67.1 percent for girls in 1999; they were 47.1 and 33.6 percent, respectively, in Burkina Faso. If a growth in the supply of schools is obviously a necessary condition for schooling to increase, experience shows that it is not a sufficient condition. There are many examples of schools, predominantly in the rural areas, where students are lacking. In order to understand the relationship between family and schooling, it is necessary to look at the demand side.