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Data Sources
EPDC Sources
EPDC houses an extensively varied database, with national and sub-national data from UIS, World Bank, UNICEF, household surveys, and national sources, as well as education projections from over 200 countries. EPDC has data from hundreds of sources, including:
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Internationally Comparable Education Data
from international education statistical organizations notably, the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). This data is calculated from administrative records reported annually by country Ministries and administrative offices, which is checked, and sometimes re-estimated and reorganized according to International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) school levels. The EPDC database includes 32 international sources.
- Global Monitoring Report
- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
- UNAIDS, Report on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic
- United Nations (UN), Human Development Report
- United Nations (UN), Millennium Development Goals Database
- United Nations (UN), World Population Prospects
- United Nations Environmental Program, GEO Data Portal
- UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
- UNESCO IBE - World Data on Education, 6th edition
- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), State of the World's Children
- World Bank, EdStats Database
- World Bank, Health, Nutrition and Population Database
- World Bank, Doing Business Database
- World Bank, GenderStats Database
- World Bank, World Development Indicators
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National Administrative Data
from Ministries of Education and national statistical websites. This data is collected by national bodies in annual school censuses and education management information systems (EMIS), as well as national population censuses. This data can be more up to date than the international sources and often contains subnational detail. The EPDC database includes 80+ national administrative sources.
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Ministries of Education
- Argentina Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Censos
- Bahrain Ministry of Education
- Bangladesh Ministry of Education
- Bolivia Ministry of Education
- Botswana Ministry of Education
- Brazil Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais
- Burkina Faso Ministère de L'éducation Nationale et de l'Alphabétisation
- Cape Verde Ministério da Educação e Desporto
- Dominica Ministry of Education and Human Resource Development
- Ecuador Ministry of Education
- El Salvador Direccion General de Estadstica y Censos
- El Salvador Ministry of Education
- Gambia Department of State for Education
- Guatemala Ministry of Education
- Guyana Ministry of Education
- India District Information System for Education
- Indonesia Department of Education
- Nepal Ministry of Education and Sports
- Pakistan Ministry of Education
- Panama Ministry of Education
- Peru Ministry of Education
- Philippines Department of Education
- Rwanda Ministry of Education
- Samoa Ministry of Education, Sports and Culture
- Sao Tome and Principe Ministry of Education and Culture
- Senegal Ministry of Education
- Seychelles Ministry of Education
- South Africa Department of Basic Education
- Turkey Ministry of National Education
- Uganda Ministry of Education and Sports
- Uruguay Ministry of Education and Culture
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Ministries of National Statistics
- Afghanistan Central Statistics Office
- Armenia National Statistical Service
- Azerbaijan State Statistical Committee
- Belarus Ministry of Statistics and Analysis
- Benin Institut National de la Statistique et de Lanalyse Economique
- Bolivia Instituto Nacional de Estadistica
- Brazil Institute of Geography and Statistics
- Bulgaria National Institute of Statistics
- Burkina Faso Institut National de la Statistique et de la Demographie
- Centrafricaine République Direction Générale de la Statistique
- Colombia National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE)
- Congo, Rep. Centre National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques
- Croatia Central Bureau of Statistics
- Cuba National Statistical Office
- Cyprus Statistical Service
- Djibouti Ministry of Finance
- Ecuador Estadistico Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos
- Fiji Bureau of Statistics
- Guinea Direction Nationale de la Statistique
- Honduras National Institute of Statistics
- Kiribati National Statistics Office
- Laos National Statistics Centre
- Lesotho Bureau of Statistics
- Lithuania Department of Statistics
- Macedonia Statistical Office
- Malawi Socio-Economic Database
- Maldives Ministry of National Planning
- Mauritius Central Statistics Office
- Mexico Instituto Nacional de Estadistica Geografia e Informatica (INEGI)
- Mozambique Instituto Nacional de Estadistica
- Nicaragua Instituto Nacional de Información de Desarrollo (INIDE)
- Pakistan Integrated Household Survey
- Papua New Guinea National Statistical Office
- Paraguay Direccion General de Estadistica, Encuestas y Censos
- Peru Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informatica National
- Philippines National Statistics Office
- Sao Tome and Principe Instituto Nacional de Estadistica
- Serbia Statistical Office
- Solomon Islands National Statistics Office
- Sri Lanka Department of Census and Statistics
- Sri Lanka Integrated Survey
- Swaziland Central Statistical Office
- Tajikistan State Statistical Committee
- Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics
- Tanzania National Household Budget Survey
- Tonga Statistics Department
- Tunisia National Institute of Statistics
- Turkey Statistical Institute
- Ukraine State Statistics Committee
- Vietnam General Statistics Office
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Household Surveys and Census data
from datasets including the Demograhic and Health Surveys (DHS), the UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) and other national surveys. Household surveys are especially valuable because the provide education indicators by background of the child or adult (household wealth, location, education of parents and such). The EPDC database includes 631,893 data points from more than 200 surveys.
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Household Surveys
Census
- Argentina Censo Nacional de Poblacion, Hogares y Viviendas
- Belize Population and Housing Census
- Costa Rica Censos Nacionales de Poblacion y Vivienda
- Cuba Censo de Poblacion y Viviendas
- Demographic and Health Surveys
- Dominican Republic Encuesta Nacional de Hogares de Propósitos Múltiples
- Educational Attainment Study of the World Bank
- Guyana Census: Final Summary Report
- India Census
- India Pratham
- International Household Survey Network (IHSN)
- Living Standards Measurement Study of the World Bank (LSMS)
- Mauritius Housing and Population Census
- Mongolia Population and Housing Census
- Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS)
- Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey
- Panama Censos Nacionales
- Panama Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Censo
- Sistema de Información de Tendencias Educativas en América Latina (SITEAL)
- South Africa General Household Survey
- United States Census Bureau, International Database
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Learning Assessments
data from national and international exam and assessment series such as the Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Education Quality (SACMEQ), PASEC, DHS reading assessments, PRYAM India surveys. Assessment can be from the entire student population or a representative sample. As education focus turns increasingly to ensuring quality, assessments are gaining in importance. The EPDC database includes information from 16 assessments and exams.
Detailed data
A special focus of the EPDC database is data by sub-national region and pupil background- wealth quintile, education of mother, ethnic group, urban or rural residence. Such sub-national data illustrates the often large education inequality within countries and pinpoints which sub-groups of children are most disadvantaged. EPDC's unique structure and search engines enable the housing of this detailed information into one searchable database.
- Laboratiorio Latinoamericano de Evaluacion de la Calidad de la Educacion (LLECE)
- Le Programme d’Analyse des Systèmes Educatifs des Etats et gouvernements membres de la CONFEMEN (PASEC)
- Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)
- Southern African Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ)
- TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center