Statistical Capacity Building WorkshopStatistical Capacity Building Workshop

31 January – 11 February 200531 January – 11 February 2005

APIA, SAMOAAPIA, SAMOA

Topic x: 2005-2006 SCB for EFA Assessment and Review

Lessons of the EFA Decade:Lessons of the EFA Decade:Education for whose needs? Education for whose needs?

Relevance and QualityRelevance and Quality

EFA National Action Plans EFA National Action Plans should containshould contain

Realistic monitoring strategy closely related to national EFA priorities

EFA monitoring and assessment work plan

Capacity building for EFA monitoring and assessment

Where are we going? Dunno! No National, sub-regional and regional monitoring!

MonitoringMonitoring

Expanded EFA: data gaps Expanded EFA: data gaps and indicators inadequaciesand indicators inadequacies

Vital areas not yet clearly defined and codified, absence of standards like the ISCED with a standardized data collection methodology:

– Early Childhood,– Literacy,– Non-formal education for adults and youth– General skills and essential life skills

No variables for analysis of special needs target groups

Pacific Island RPacific Island Regional Workshop on Education egional Workshop on Education Statistics, Papua New Guinea, 19-23 May 2003Statistics, Papua New Guinea, 19-23 May 2003

EFA NAPEFA NAP

Availability of education statistics Availability of education statistics (Asia & Pacific)(Asia & Pacific)

Central Asia

East Asia

South and West Asia

Pacific

Availability of education statistics Availability of education statistics (Pacific)(Pacific)

Participating countries to identify regional and Participating countries to identify regional and national Capacity Building prioritiesnational Capacity Building priorities

Number of countries able to collect Number of countries able to collect data and produce EFA indicatorsdata and produce EFA indicators

0 1 2 3 4 5 6

14. Coefficient of efficiency (optional)15. % of grade 5+ mastered learning competencies

16.a. Literacy rate, age 15-24 16.b. Life-skills case studies

17. Adult literacy, age 15+18. Literacy gender parity index F/M

1. GER in ECD19. GPI GIR and NIR

7. Public current expenditure% of GNP, as % of GNP per capita 13. Survival rate to grade 5

2. Proportion of grade 1 who attended ECD20. GPI in GER, NER

21. GPI repetition, survival rate, transition rates3. Gross intake rate (GIR)

4. Net intake rate (NIR, by private/public) 5. Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER)

8.Public expenditure as % of total public expenditure on education10. % primary teachers certified

12. Repetition rate, by type of school6. NER

11. Pupil/teacher ratio9. % primary teachers acad qualified

Pacific Education Statistics 2003Pacific Education Statistics 2003Cook Islands, Palau (absent)Fiji has produced indicators for all

EFA Goals for the EFA 2000 assessment

Kiribati did not produce any indicators for EFA 2000 assessment, but produced recently some indicators based on school survey data (i.e., no literacy, no financial statistics).

Marshall Islands has no capacity to produce any of the EFA indicators

Nauru has no statistics function, since there are only two primary and one secondary schools

Niue has no statistics function; there are only one primary and one secondary schools;

Papua New Guinea has no capacity for EFA indicators, need capacity building in all aspects of statistics and EMIS.

Samoa has adequate capacity (one person) in data collection and producing indicators based on government school survey

Solomon Islands (present but no response)

Tonga can only report financial data from its administrative information, not collect data on any other statistics

Tuvalu produced only GER and teachers qualification for EFA 2000 assessment,

Vanuatu was able to report financial data from their own administration

National Stats. Capacity National Stats. Capacity Building priorities for Building priorities for

EFA PMEAEFA PMEA

Aloha!Aloha!What shall the What shall the

Assessment Assess Assessment Assess and Data from and Data from

Where? Where?