About the Global Education Database
The Global Education Database is sponsored by the Office of Education of the US Agency for International Development (USAID). The GED is a repository of international education statistics compiled from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), a USAID program that has conducted full-scale nationally representative household surveys in over 60 developing countries since 1984.
There are 134 indicators compiled from the UNESCO Institute of Statistics and 71 indicators compiled from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS).
If you have any questions, please contact the Statistics Unit of USAID
Data Services by sending an email to: statsunit@devtechsys.com
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| About the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED)
The International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) was designed by UNESCO in the early 1970's to serve as an instrument suitable for assembling, compiling and presenting statistics of education both within individual countries and internationally.
It was approved by the International Conference on Education (Geneva, 1975), and was subsequently endorsed by UNESCO's General Conference when it adopted the Revised Recommendation concerning the International Standardization of Educational Statistics at its twentieth session (Paris, 1978). Experience over the years with the application of ISCED by national authorities and international organizations has shown the need for its updating and revision. This would further facilitate the international compilation and comparison of education statistics and take into account new developments and changes in education and anticipate future trends in the various regions of the world, such as the multiplication and growth of different forms of vocational education and training, the increasing diversity of education providers, and the increasing recourse to distance education and other modalities based on new technologies. The present classification, now known as ISCED 1997, was approved by the UNESCO General Conference at its 29th session in November 1997. It was prepared by a Task Force established by the Director-General to that effect and is the result of extensive consultations of worldwide representation. ISCED 1997 covers primarily two cross-classification variables: levels and fields of education. Source: ISCED 1997, Paris, UNESCO, 1997 (Document No. BPE-98/WS/1).
The adjustments were made to ease the international compilation and comparison of education statistics and to take into account new types of learning opportunities and activities for both children and adults. Thus the time-series data for the years through 1997 are not consistent with those for 1998 and later. Any time-series analysis should therefore be undertaken with extreme caution.
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