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Access the most recent EPDC publication: Window on the Future
2025 to learn about projections of youth and adult education levels for 83
developing countries.
Babette Wils' report Window on the Future 2025: Projections of Education
Attainment and Its Impact was just released in October. The report reveals
that over the next 20 years, education levels of youth and adults will rise
significantly in most developing countries, and education gender gaps will
decline substantially. However, in a small group of countries trends are less
positive -- population growth swamps education gains, and in others, education
levels of youth and adults are projected to stagnate or
reverse.
Check out the new EPDC Policy Brief Series to find out more about current
issues in education.
Five new policy briefs, based on Educating the World's Children and
The Untapped Opportunity: How Public Private Partnerships Can Advance
Education for All, are now available online. Learn about strategies to
improve retention, to reduce inequalities in attendance by targeting underserved
populations, to increase resources for education by using public-private
partnerships, and much more.
Find out more about education projections models in the EPDC
working paper: Review and Selection of Selected Education Projection Models
in Use in 2006.
The paper includes an overview of what the different education projection
models can be best used for; the structure of the models; the expertise, data,
and software needed to run the models; and a comparison of projections using the
different models.
View and download the Center's new Regional Education Profiles for
Nigeria.
The Center has continued to expand its presentation tools, producing
education profiles at the regional level. The data presented is from the 2004
Nigeria DHS EdData Survey, and is linked to the 2003 Nigeria Demographic and
Health Survey. The profiles give a basic overview of the education system,
highlighting issues related to attendance, retention, learning, and efficiency
of schools. They also provide information on parents' contribution to schooling
in terms of money and time, and their perception of schooling.
Fulfill your data needs by searching on the EPDC online
database.
The EPDC database is focused on education data from developing and
transitional countries. It is a unique resource that now includes:
- UPDATED: sub-national data for 97 countries;
- UPDATED: current 2005 national data for 215 countries, and 2006 data for 209
countries;
- NEW! attendance and educational attainment disaggregated by ethnic group and
physical or mental disabilities in Belize, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Panama.
- NEW! series of education data available from 30 non-standard household
surveys such as the Questionnaire on Basic Welfare Indicators surveys (QUIBB),
Household Income and Expenditure Surveys (HIES), Integrated Household Surveys
(IHS), Living Standard Surveys (LSS), and Socio-Economic Surveys (SES).
Please send any feedback or suggestions to epdc@aed.org