A technical report by EPDC untangles the global metrics of school exclusion and points to existing gaps and discrepancies in data that cause a substantial amount of uncertainty around the published regional and global estimates of out of school children.
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Child Vulnerability and Educational Disadvantage in Uganda: Patterns of School Attendance and Performance
This paper analyzes the extent to which Uganda's official government "child vulnerability" indicators are associated with two important components of educational disadvantage: school attendance and sixth grade learning outcomes.
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Educating the World's Children: Patterns of Growth and Inequality
This report analyzes long-term historical trends of primary and secondary school entry, presents projections of education growth to 2025 for 70 countries, and provides alternative estimates for when these countries will reach universal primary education. It examines sub-national inequality of schooling and the impact of inequality on education growth.
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Educational Inequality within Countries: Who are the Out of School Children?
This policy brief calculates the correlation of school attendance with four characteristics of pupils - household income, region of residence, urban/rural residence, and gender - and finds independent relations for each of the four characteristics. The relations are strongest for income and region, and weakest for gender.
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Efficiency: A Study of Promotion-, Repetion- and Dropout Rates among Pupils in Four Age-groups in Sub-Saharan Africa
This policy brief measures the extent and effects of under- and overage school attendance among pupils in Sub-Saharan Africa based on household survey data from 22 developing countries.
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Estimating the Costs of Achieving Education for All in Low-Income Countries
This is a background paper commissioned for the Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2010 for financial gap costing on 47 low-income countries in reaching Education for All goals by 2015.
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Forecasting Human Capital: Using Demographic Multi-State Methods by Age, Sex, and Education
This working paper presents demographic, multi-state population projections as a tool to demonstrate the long-term effects of human capital on near-term investments in education. This paper demonstrates the feasibility of the method through three education projections for Guinea, Nicaragua, and Zambia.
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Four Studies of Education Growth: Inequality by Wealth, Age Effects, Sub-National Learning Differentials, and Projections
This background paper collects the four studies commissioned by the Education for All Global Monitoring Report team to assist in drafting the EFA Global Monitoring Report 2009 - Overcoming Inequality: Why Governance Matters. All the studies are available separately as 2009 EPDC working papers.
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Global Educational Trends
This report covers ten key education trends in brief two page sections with graphical illustration. The topics include: pre-school attendance, losses in school through dropout, future trends for completion and teacher needs in primary and secondary, inequity by gender and wealth, the role of non-formal education, human capital projections, youth and employment, education and health.
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Household Survey Guidelines on Education
This report recommends the structure and wording of a coordinated suite of education modules for household survey questionnaires. The report was commissioned by the International Household Survey Network (www.ihsn.org) as background for the IHSN question bank. The main text evaluates the education questions and modules used in a cross-section of household surveys, distills their best practices, and organize these practices into a coherent and coordinated suite of education questionnaire modules.
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