Regional Workshop on Education Statistics for East and South African Countries

During 3 days of general meetings and 2 days of bilateral sessions, 50 statisticians from 21 Member States as well as UNESCO and UNICEF specialists discussed a wide range of issues pertaining to collecting, analyzing and reporting of education statistics in view of the SDG 4 – Education 2030 agenda.

The programme of the workshop that focused on the thematic and global data and indicators required for monitoring the targets of the SDG 4 – Education 2030,  put a  special emphasis on the methodology, issues and challenges of producing data on out-of-school children and adolescents of primary and secondary school-ages, as well as interpretation of such data and its use for policy-making. Other topics covered during the workshop included data collection on teacher trainings and qualifications, results from the UIS data gaps survey on SDG4 in sub-Saharan Africa, recent changes in UIS education data collection instruments as well as finalisation of national ISCED mappings.

UIS presentations

• UIS work / role in improving response rates to education questionnaires and quality of data reported to UIS
• UIS recent outputs from education surveys
• UIS Education Surveys: An update
• Questionnaire on Students and teachers (ISCED 0-4)
• Education expenditure: Conceptual framework, data collection, processing and dissemination
• 2016 Survey of Forma Education. Students and teachers (ISCED 5-8)
• The UIS Supplementary Questionnaire on Teachers: Data collected and indicators proposed
• Literacy statistics survey
• Out-of-School Children Initiative: Five Dimensions of Exclusion (5DE) Model
• Out-of-School Children Initiative: The visibility model of out-of-school children and children at risk of dropping out

Country presentations 

• Ethiopia: Out-of-School Children Initiative
• Ghana: EMIS implementation
• Ghana: Update analysis of out-of-school children in Ghana with district-level summaries and projections
• Liberia: Out-Of-School Children Initiative
• Namibia: School drop-out and out-of-school children in Namibia
• South Africa: Data collection