1. The MDGs and School Enrolment: An example of administrative data
Module B1, Session 9

2. Objectives From this session students will be able to: Give examples
of the collection of administrative data
Identify the difference
between a census and a sample
Find a statement of the MDGs
and specify the goal for education
Give objectives of the schools census
in relation to the MDGs
and the needs of the country

3. Activities Activity 1: This presentation Activity 2: Activity 3
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
particularly the goals on education
The education census in Swaziland
A census of all schools
For administrative and statistical purposes
Activity 3
Discussion
Primary education here
What do you do?
Is information easily available
Are you meeting the MDGs on education?

5. Note both the goals and the statistical presentations
Activity 2: MDGs
Note both the goals and the statistical presentations

6. Primary education Net enrolment ratio (NER) is one of the indicators
What are other goals, and other indicators?

7. More on education than one indicator

8. Activity 2: MDGs - Indicators
What is an indicator?
Examples
Indicator 6

9. Activity 2: MDGs – Indicator problems
Possibly a slide to say ONLY an indicator
i.e. just an indication
nothing more
to study a problem in detail you often need more
as we see later

10. An education census Forms sent to all schools in the country
before the 31st March of 2005
to be completed on the last school day of March
The head teachers completes the staffing forms,
teachers qualification, sex, experience, etc
Each class teacher completes the class register slips.
name of pupil, age, whether a re-starter etc.

11. An education census Response: All 754 schools were sent the forms
to complete and sent back to the office.
After some initial non-response,
a follow-up was made
all schools in the country submitted their returns,
bringing the response rate to 100%
This was therefore a complete census
Useful for administration by Ministry of Education
And for statistical purposes by Dept of Statistics

12. A census What is a census compared to a sample survey
Why is this a census?
What is this a census of?
Schools mainly – the whole population of schools
Therefore also a census of teachers
And a census of school pupils
It is complete – not a sample
But need to be precise on what is complete
In particular it is all school children NOT all children

13. Administrative data More than a census Also for Educational records
Part of the routine administration
Get this in many fields
health workers, clinics
extension officers in agriculture
etc

14. Practical work Work in groups of 4 Work in pairs within these groups
Each pair looks further at one topic
Either the MDGs
Or the education census
You have about 30 minutes
To prepare a presentation for the other pair
Then 10 minutes for each presentation
Plus 5 minutes for each to collect key points
When we resume
We start with your key points

15. After the practical – Key points
They can be divided into categories for example:
statistical or substance
MDGs or education, or both

16. Indicators from Swaziland study

17. Calculating the NER for primary education
Fom the Table on page iv of the report
Indicator 6 in MDGs
100*184449/218837= 84.3

18. In each country Three aspects Also for indicators
What are the figures – how is the country doing?
What is the routine to collect the data – the equivalent of the census in Swaziland
What is available and how easily
Also for indicators
What definitions are used
Are those definitions available?
Are they on local web sites or is there a link to international sites with the information

19. How might this information be used?
Monitoring internationally
could supply the figures for international use and comparison
Monitoring within the country
Need to get to a greater level of detail
To make a change

20. What else is needed? This is a census
the WHOLE population
every school
every teacher
every school child
And in Swaziland the primary NER = 84%
It needs to get to 100%
What about the 16%?
They do not go to school
Why not?
Does this census give any information about the 16%?
If not, then what could be used instead?

21. A welfare survey? To ask why children are taken out of school
And possibly how to change this
For example in Kenya
Survey explores the reasons children are not at school
See the next slide
This indicates ways that the work
From different activities in a statistical office
is interconnected

22. Example from poverty survey - Kenya

23. Objectives of this session
Can you now?
Give examples
of the collection of administrative data
Identify the difference
between a census and a sample
Find a statement of the MDGs
and specify the goal for education
Give objectives of the schools census
in relation to the MDGs
and the needs of the country