Education Indicators – Mechanisms to gather Education Indicators – Mechanisms to gather data from national sourcesdata from national sources

Workshop on MDG MonitoringBangkok, THAILAND

10- 12 December 2008

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Brief course description

Objective: Better understanding on international comparative data in monitoring developmental goals

• Key players in producing international comparative data in education

• Mechanism of collecting and producing of these data

• Key issues and challenges

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Background

• Established in 1999• Formerly, UNESCO Division of Statistics • In September 2001, the UIS moved to its new place at

University of Montreal, Quebec, CANADA• 30 November 2001 - Director-General inaugurates

the UNESCO Institute for Statistics in Montreal• Director, Mr. Hendrik VAN DER POL• Asia-Pacific Regional Advisor, Ko-Chih Tung

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UIS Mission

to foster a culture of evidence-based policy, both nationally and internationally, through the collection and use of high-quality, timely data in education, science and technology, culture and communication.

1. The collection and maintenance of international statistics which reflect changing policy and are reliable, internationally comparable and robust, as well as feasible to collect;

2. the production and implementation of new statistical standards, classifications, methodologies, indicators and related documentation;

3. the development of the statistical and analytical capacities of Member States; and

4. the provision of analytical services within the context of the Institute’s mission..

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Our clients and partners A wide range of data-users and audiences

International Organizations National Statistical Offices, Education Ministries Non-governmental organisations Researchers (academic, business)…and many others

UIS data are widely “redistributed,” they are published in: World Development Indicators, World Bank Human Development Report, UNDP State of the World’s Children, UNICEF Global Education Database, USAID…and many others

How are global data reported?

EFA Global Monitoring Report

World Development Indicators

State of the World’s Children Human Development Report

UIS DATAUIS Global Education Digest

UIS/WEI Education Counts

http://stats.uis.unesco.org/unesco/TableViewer/document.aspx?ReportId=143&IF_Language=eng

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Monitoring the Developmental Goals at the global level

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MDG Goals (Education)

Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women

Target 3: Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling.

Target 4: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005 and in all levels of education no later than 2015

Indicator 2.1: Net enrolment ratio in primary education

Indicator 3.1: Ratio of girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education

Indicator 2.2:The proportion of pupils starting grade 1 who reach last grade of primary

Indicator 2.3: Literacy rate of 15–24 year-olds , women and men

Indicator 2.1: Adjusted Net enrolment ratio in primary education • Classical definition of NER in primary

education: Number of pupils in the theoretical age group for a primary level of education enrolled in that level expressed as a percentage of the total population in that group.

• Adjusted primary NER: number of children of primary (ISCED 1) age enrolled either in primary (ISCED 1) or lower secondary (ISCED 2) expressed as % of primary school-age population.

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What are the data sources to produce NER

Source:• Enrolment data – National authority (Ministry of

Education and National Statistic Office) through UIS Data collection

• http://www.uis.unesco.org/ev.php?URL_ID=5750&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201

• Population data – United Nations Population Division

Calendar of data dissemination for UIS Education dataExample: School reference year: ending in 2006

Group A

Data collection and release

Group B

November March

December

October

April

2005 2006

2006 2007 2008

Questionnaires were sent to

countries

Deadline for returning the

QuestionnairesFirst set of

preliminary data to countries and agencies (not for

publication)

Final dissemination for GED, EFA, UIS Data Centre and

agencies

Update UIS Data Centre

Indicator 2.3: Literacy rate of 15–24 year-olds• Literacy rate of 15–24 year-olds, or the youth literacy

rate, is the percentage of the population ages 15–24 years-old who can both read and write with understanding a short simple statement on everyday life.

Source:• Literacy data – population censuses, household surveys

and literacy surveys through UIS Literacy Questionnaireshttp://www.uis.unesco.org/ev_en.php?ID=6862_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC• Population data – United Nations Population Division

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Comparability (Definitional issue) Use of population data Level of disaggregation Availability of statistics Multiple sources

Issues on collecting, using the internationally comparative data

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Comparability (Definitional issue) National definition vs. International definition Theoretical definition vs. Operational

definition Different conceptual definitions

Issues on collecting, using the internationally comparative data

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Use of population data National estimates vs. UN estimates Different sources at the national level Different sources at the regional and global

levels

Issues on collecting, using the internationally comparative data

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Level of disaggregation Availability of data by disaggregating Reflecting true situation Geographical break-down Other social-economic break-down

Issues on collecting, using the internationally comparative data

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Availability of statistics Which indicators are available at the which

level Regional average Global figures Estimating methodology (Treating missing

values)

Issues on collecting, using the internationally comparative data

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Multiple sources Different sources at the national level Different sources at the regional and global

levels Population Education Indicators Surveys vs. EMIS

Issues on collecting, using the internationally comparative data