With just a decade remaining to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals for Education (SDG 4), relevant, timely, and quality data is key to monitoring progress and informing policy responses. This...
DefinitionData collected from administrative sources (Ministry of Education, Finance, universities, etc.)Source definitionUNESCO Institute for Statistics
DefinitionOfficial survey involving the whole population within a defined system. For example, a school census involves all the schools within the education system.Source definitionUNESCO Institute...
DefinitionLevel of government whose political authority extends over the entire territory of the country, such as the federal government.Source definitionUNESCO Institute for Statistics
DefinitionGroup of persons who jointly experience a series of events over a period of time. A school cohort is defined as a group of pupils who enter the first grade of a given cycle in the same...
DefinitionAbility to mobilise and use internal resources such as knowledge, skills and attitude, as well as external resources such as databases, colleagues, peers, libraries, instruments etc., to...
