Transcript ՀԶՆ ԹԻՐԱԽՆԵՐԻ ՏԵՂԱՅՆԱՑՈՒՄԸ և ՄՈՆԻՏՈՐԻՆԳԻ

Millennium Development
Goals, Education Indicators,
Measurement Issues and
Activities to Improve
Measurements
Workshop on Education Indicators for
Millennium Development Goals, 21-23
November 2012, Tirana, Albania
Marieta Tsaturyan, National Statistics
Service, Republic of Armenia
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Current Education Indicators
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4.
Gross enrolment ratio in primary education,
Proportion of pupils starting grade 1 who
reach grade 5,
Literacy rate of 15-24 year-olds,
Ratios of girls to boys in primary education,
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Current Education Indicators
5.
6.
7.
Ratios of girls to boys in secondary education,
Ratios of girls to boys in tertiary education,
Ratio of literate women to men, 15-24 years
old, in tertiary education.
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Education Data Sources
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Indicators 1, 2, 4 and 5: Armenian Ministry of
Education and Science,
Indicators 1, 3, 6 and 7: Armenian National
Statistics Service,
Indicators 3 and 7: Population census
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Education Indicators:
Measurement Issues
Gross enrolment ratio in primary education.
Issue: before 2010, the Armenian Ministry of
Education and Science provided data on number
of students by grades only. Therefore gross ratio
was calculated instead of net ratio.
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Activities to Improve Education Indicators
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From 2010, the Ministry of Education and
Science provides data on grades and ages
which allows for calculating net enrolment
ratio in primary education.
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Targets of Education Indicators for Millennium
Development Goals
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Gross enrolment ratio in basic education (%)
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Public spending for education as part of GDP (%)
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Ratio of students possessing knowledge corresponding to the criteria set by
the national and international education quality assessment system (%)
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Gross ratio of the poor enrolled in primary and secondary vocational
education to the total number of students (%)
Gross ratio of the poor enrolled in tertiary vocational education to the total
number of students (%)
> 99
> 4.5
-
> 20
> 10
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Thank you!
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