Sustainable Development Data Digest
Laying the Foundation to Measure Sustainable Development Goal 4", the Digest shows that many countries struggle to produce the data that are needed today and will find it even harder to gather the finely-tuned education data that are needed in the coming years, given the vast ambitions of the SDG agenda.
To address this challenge, the Digest presents a global strategy involving countries, UN agencies, donors and civil society groups to gather the necessary data and implement a new measurement framework.
It focuses specifically on areas that are difficult to measure, such as education quality, learning, equity and inclusion. The Digest highlights, for example, the ways in which parity indices can be used to track inequalities in education and learning among children and youth according to their socio-economic status, location (rural versus urban households), sex and disability status.
The UIS is working closely with countries to identify data gaps, for example, and use a wider range of different data sources. This requires renewed commitment by governments and the UIS Digest argues that this commitment is essential for the achievement of key SDG education targets.