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Volume V, Issue 5 April 2012
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What’s New on the
EdStats website?
What’s New?
The World Bank Education Statistics Newsletter
The
Newsletter
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Contents
Volume V, Issue 5 April 2012
Data Quality Benchmarking Reports Released for
6 Countries
The Education Management Information System (EMIS) team of
the World Bank’s Systems Approach for Better Education Re-
sults (SABER) initiative has just released its first set of EMIS
benchmarking reports. The reports analyze the EMIS systems in
Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Kitts &
Nevis, and St. Vincent & the Grenadines. Also, a regional report
for the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) was
released.
Pg. 2 EdStats StatPlanet:
Visualizing and Map-
ping Education Data
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Selecting Countries,
Regions and Indica-
tors; Mapping Data
Charts in EdStats
StatPlanet
www.worldbank.org/education/edstats/
EdStats Query Updated with New 2010 UIS Data
and over 80 New Indicators
The EdStats Query has been updated with the most recent data
released by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). The data-
set includes new statistics for the school year ending in 2010, as
well as updated education finance indicators. 88 new education
indicators were also added to the EdStats Query with this up-
date.
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The EdStats StatPlanet data visualization tool allows users to explore country or region performance
on a variety of key education indicators through interactive, animated world/regional maps, charts, and
tables. This newsletter will provide a basic guide to using EdStats StatPlanet to create customized
maps and visualize EdStats education data. More detailed StatPlanet instructions can be found on the
StatSilk Resources page.
The EdStats StatPlanet interface is organized into different windows:
Visualizing and Mapping Education Data
Graph Window
Country/Region
Selection Window
Indicator Selection Window
Map Legend
Time Slider
Customization Options, Exporting, Data Tables
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Selecting Countries and Regions. Click on countries in the Country/Region Selection Window or in
the map to highlight the countries in the Graph Window. Click again on the country/region to deselect
it or deselect all countries by clicking on the icon. By selecting a Region from the dropdown
menu in the Country/Region Selection Window, the default world map will focus in on the specified
region (see Sub-Saharan Africa example below). The chart will also automatically focus on the coun-
tries of the selected region. The icon allows users to create a custom region composed of the
selected countries.
Selecting Indicators. Users can select indicators
from either the Indicator Selection Window or the
Graph Window. Clicking on the icon in the
Graph Window will open a new window to search for
keywords in an indicator name. View indicators by
topics like access, equity, and expenditure by clicking
on the indicator name in the Graph Window. Mouse
over a topic to reveal the indicators within the topic.
Clicking on one indicator will move all the other indicators in the topic into the Indicator Selection Win-
dow on the left for faster selection of similar indicators.
Maps in StatPlanet. Maps in StatPlanet are
dynamic: By clicking the play button to the right
of the Time Slider, users can watch the data
transition over time in the map. Also, users can
drag the slider to the left or right to view a
static map of the data in one year. Static maps
can be exported as .jpg or .png files through
the export button on the bottom left.
CUSTOMIZING MAPS. StatPlanet maps are
fully customizable. The map background, bor-
ders, font, and legend are customizable
through the options icon on the bottom
left. Click on color boxes in the legend to cus-
tomize the legend colors. To adjust the data
range of the map legend, click on the top or
bottom value and adjust the range in the
popup window.
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Charts in EdStats StatPlanet
EdStats StatPlanet can visualize data in four types of charts: connected line, horizontal bar, vertical
bar, and scatterplot. To select a chart type, click on one of the chart icons on the top left of the Graph
Window. The icon for the selected chart type will be highlighted in yellow (as in the examples below).
Chart data can also be viewed in a table and exported through the icon.