September 17, 2019 by sean.cremin
EPDC tested the accuracy of our education projection model from 2012 against five years of actual UIS data. Here, we explore initial findings.
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April 2, 2018 by matt.krupoff
The Education Policy and Data Center (EPDC) has just updated its database with education indicators from recent rounds of household surveys from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS).
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August 15, 2017 by celeste.carano
EPDC has updated its database with some of the most recent household survey data published by DHS and MICS.
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October 20, 2016 by charles.gale
In this post, we feature the Rwanda data to highlight some trends in early childhood education in the country.
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October 4, 2016 by huyen.nguyen
EPDC's administrative data updates show increased monitoring of pre-primary schooling, as well as persistent challenges in education access across Sub Saharan Africa.
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September 7, 2016 by Hibatalla Ibrahim
Were the free primary education policies implemented in the 1990s successful? EPDC reviews evidence from Ethiopia, Malawi and Uganda.
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January 6, 2016 by charles.gale
We’re excited to announce the release of the most recent household survey data published by DHS and MICS. EPDC’s database includes over 870,000 data points extracted from large-scale household surveys, covering over 111 countries
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March 4, 2015 by Xuejiao Cheng
From July 2012 to September 2013, the Center for Universal Education of the Brookings Institution together with the UNESCO Institute for Statistics convened a global consultation group to form the Learning Metrics Task Force (
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February 15, 2015 by charles.gale
The connection between violent conflict and educational access was the subject of a previous post. In this post we look at the relationship between conflict and learning levels. As children and youth have gained access to
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January 20, 2015 by mawang
Ghana is a country located in West Africa and bordered by the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean to the south. With the highest per capita income in the sub-region of western Africa, Ghana has outpaced most neighboring countries
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