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The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), Pakistan, conducted by Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA) is the country’s largest citizen-led household-based survey and aims to provide regular, reliable estimates of education status and learning outcomes of children aged 5 - 16 years in rural districts of Pakistan. After the unprecedented school closures of 2020 and early 2021, the ASER study in 2021 was adapted to measure the impacts of COVID-19. The survey was conducted in 16 rural districts of Pakistan (four each in Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab and Sindh provinces). This report aims to develop a body of evidence to inform future policy decisions, focusing particularly on learning losses due to school closures and the measures taken to support learning for school-going children.