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Tracking Progress and Gaps
What results have been achieved?
Have we reached our goals?
Assessing Interventions
What has worked and why?
What can be done to ensure EFA is
achieved?
Responding to Realities
Learn from experience
Make more informed decisions
Be accountable
The Challenge
Meeting National and International Commitments
Education Management Data
Administrative records from various
government departments and levels
Surveys and Census
Periodic household surveys on various
topics, including education and
Population census once
every decade
Reports
Flagship reports by national and
international agencies with detailed
analysis of specific development
issues
The Challenge Monitoring Education Development
National Stakeholders
National statistics organizations, decisionmakers, civil society organizations, mass
media, general public
United Nations
United Nations agencies with
specific focus areas
Development Agencies
Bilateral and multilateral development
agencies
each with their own priorities
The Challenge Reaching the Audience
EFAInfo Overview
Developed to support the EFA Mid-Decade Assessment.
Reflects in its structure the set of MDA indicators – both core
and policy/system indicators
Based on DevInfo, a free software developed to monitor the
MDGs and implemented in many countries across the world
Prepared for CDROM release in October 2008 and online from
January 2009.
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Objectives at 2 levels
Country-level
• Provide a tool and template for national customization and
implementation to compile, monitor, present and analyze
education data
National activities underway with support from UNICEF EAPRO
in:
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Indonesia
Mongolia
Papua New Guinea
Vanuatu
Further country activities are expected through support from
national DevInfo taskforce and UNICEF Country Offices
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Customized Databases
More than 40 national
statistics organizations and
other agencies have adapted
DevInfo database technology
to user-specified
requirements
Partnerships Adaptations
Objectives at 2 levels
Regional
• Develop a regional database as record of the Asia and Pacific
EFA MDA integrated with education-related, national and subnational data. Coverage includes:
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Central Asia
South Asia
East Asia
South-East Asia
Pacific
• Complementing regional initiatives underway: ASPBAE Info
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Database Contents
• National Education data
– National EFA Mid-Decade Assessment Data (labeled as ‘provisional’)
– Education Statistics reports
• International data
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EFA Global Monitoring Report (UNESCO)
State of the World’s Children Report (UNICEF)
GenderInfo (UNSD)
Millennium Development Goals (UNDP)
• Household survey data
– Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) – South, East and Central Asia
– Living standards survey (LLSMS)
– Demographic and Health Survey (DHS)
• Special studies
– Literacy, Disabilities, Caste and Ethnicity, Economic surveys
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440,000 data points from 210 sources
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EFAInfo Output
• Tables
• Graphs
• Maps
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Organization – by Goal / Sector
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Organization – by Area
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Organization – by Source
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Indicator Metadata
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EFAInfo Data Analysis
Graphs, tables and maps presented here were prepared
with data from the EFAInfo 1.2.
Compiled data includes national and sub-national data
sets prepared for the EFA Mid-Decade Assessment,
household survey data and internationally-comparable
data from the EFA GMR and SOWC 2008
A commitment and an opportunity in Asia and the Pacific
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Education Overview – Identifying Regional Disparities
East Asia and Pacific
East Asia & Pacific Regional Average
N. Zealand
Brunei
Macao
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Maximum
Minimum
Tokelau
120
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100
Australia
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80
74
PNG
70
92
Cambodia
PNG
Solomon Isl
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Japan
98
88
Lao PDR
60
40
Japan
Japan
Macao
Singapore
Cambodia
Lao PDR
GER in Pre- GER in Primary NER in Primary Survival Rate
Primary
Education
Education
to Grade 5
Education
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Source: EFA GMR 2008
Cambodia
Lao PDR
GER in Total
Secondary
Education
PNG
NER in Total Youth Literacy Adult Literacy
Secondary
Rate (15-24) (15 and over)
Education
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Importance of Early Childhood Education on Future
Performance
Malaysia
Brunei
Macao
Indonesia
Survival Rate to Grade 5
80
Philippines
Lao PDR
60
Cambodia
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Source: EFA GMR 2008
20.0
40.0
60.0
80.0
New Entrants to Primary Grade 1 with ECCE Experience
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Children under five with 3 or more children's books
Mongolia, 2005
Mothers Education: None 1.2
Mothers Education: Primary
8.1
Mothers Education Secondary Grade 8
12.5
Mothers Education: Secondary Grade 10
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Mothers Education: Vocational
23.1
Mothers Education: College/University
Urban
Rural
35.6
15.8
WQ: Poorest
WQ: Second
WQ: Middle
WQ: Fourth
WQ: Richest
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15.6
26.5
38.5
50.3
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Source: Mongolia MICS, 2005
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percent
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Source: Papua New Guinea, School Census, 2007
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Source: Papua New Guinea, School Census, 2007
Primary Education Enrolment Ratios
Papua New Guinea by district, 2007
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Net Enrolment Ratio in Primary Education
(PNG national definition)
Gross Enrolment Ratio in Primary Education
(PNG national definition)
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60
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Source: Papua New Guinea, School Census, 2007
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Vietnam
Myanmar
Lao PDR
Thailand
Cambodia
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Source: EFA GMR 2008
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Household Surveys:
Economic status has great impact on education attainment, but other factors
contribute to depth of disparities
Education Attainment by wealth
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Source: National DHS/TLSS/MICS Reports
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Household Surveys:
The urban/rural divide affects boys and girls participation and attainment of education
differently across the region.
Education Attainment by sex and location (urban/rural)
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Source: National DHS/MICS Reports
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Contains EFA MDA indicators,
ready
for customization, data entry and use
Compiles all relevant data in one
system, allowing for multiple sources of
data
Facilitates easy retrieval
of data
Provides for analysis of
trends over time
Integrates powerful presentation
tools (table, graph, map)
A Common Database System features
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Fully customizable,
to fit the country
context and the needs (national plans, goals,
indicators, etc)
National Integration
Allows for linkages into larger existing
national development database
Cambodia
Nepal
Fiji
A Common Database System functions
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Challenges
• Data availability/ Quality
• Demand for data (to be applied to policymaking/planning)
• Application of data for policy and planning
• Inter-agency collaboration (population data)
• Transforming data into information and how
to use it in policy and decision making
Pacific Regional Training Workshop
Nov 2007
East Asia Regional Training Workshop
Dec 2007
South Asia Regional Training Workshop
Early 2009 - TBA
Regional Activities training and production
Follow up & Extension
Datasets welcome – agencies are welcome to submit data for
compilation in final release of EFAInfo.
Software available online at: www.devinfo.org
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EFAInfo Endnotes:
Please note that data sourced from national data sets prepared
for the EFA Mid-Decade Assessment remains provisional pending
endorsement from national authorities and thus should not be
quoted or referenced until further notice.