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Annual Survey in School 2011

Mauritius, 2011
Statistics Mauritius
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Identification

Survey ID Number
MUS_2011_ASS_v01_M
Title
Annual Survey in School 2011
Country
Name Country code
Mauritius MUS
Study type
Other Household Survey [hh/oth]
Series Information
Statistics Mauritius conducts a school census in March every year in the Republic of Mauritius.
Abstract
The main objective of the survey, which is undertaken in March every year in all pre-primary, primary, secondary and specialized schools, is to have a set of reliable data on the education sector for the Republic of Mauritius. The questionnaires have been designed to collect information at school level on:
(1) infrastructure and facilities available
(2) enrolment
(3) examination results
(4) ICT
(5) teaching and non-teaching personnel.
Kind of Data
Census/enumeration data [cen]
Unit of Analysis
Educational institutions

Scope

Notes
The 2011 Mauritius Annual Survey in Schools includes the following topics:
- Infrastructure and facilities
- Enrolment
- Examination results
- Teaching and non-teaching personnel

Coverage

Geographic Coverage
National coverage
Universe
The survey covered all public and private (including fee-paying) schools in the Republic of Mauritius.

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators
Name Affiliation
Statistics Mauritius Ministry of Finance and Economis Development
Producers
Name Affiliation Role
Central Information System Division Ministry of Information Technology Technical assistance in data processing
Funding Agency/Sponsor
Name Abbreviation Role
Ministry of Finance and Economic Development MOFED Funded the study

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection
Start End
2011-03-01 2011-07-15
Data Collection Mode
Mail Questionnaire [mail]
Data Collection Notes
The questionnaires and instructions were sent by a team of five Statistical Officers by mail to all schools. A deadline was given to the schools to send the completed questionnaires back by mail.

Each Statistical Officer was responsible for one or two districts in such a way that the workload for the survey was equally distributed.

A close monitoring was done by two Senior Statistical Officers on a weekly basis on the number of questionnaires received from schools, the number of questionnaires edited and coded by the Statistical Officers.

Reminders were sent to all schools who did not respond by the given deadline.

Fieldwork were done by Statistical Officers for a few cases who did not respond even after phone calls and reminders.
Data Collectors
Name Abbreviation Affiliation
Statistics Mauritius SM Ministry of Finance and Economic Development

Data Processing

Data Editing
Data editing took place at various stages throughout the processing, including:

(a) Office editing and coding
Each completed questionnaire was thoroughly scrutinized for missing and inconsistent data by a team of five Statistical Officers posted at Ministry of Education. The data was also checked against the previous year's figures to locate major changes. Following this, query was cross-checked with each school through phone and necessary corrections made. The questionnaires were then coded for data entry.

(b) During data entry
Coded questionnaires, in batches, were then sent to Statistics Mauritius head office where a team of four Data Entry Operators form CISD (Central Information Systems Division) did the data capture. Questionnaires were entered twice using the software IMPS (Integrated Microcomputer Processing System) by two different persons to ensure that there was no input error.

(c) Structure checking
The data files were sent back to the Statistics Unit at the Ministry of Education where automated data consistency checks were run on the data using the software IMPS again. Errors identified were then corrected by the team of five Statistical Officers. Data were validated using IMPS until there was no error.
Other Processing
After the cleaning process was completed, data sets were merged to produce a series of tabulations using IMPS.

Access policy

Access authority
Name Affiliation Email URL
Director Statistics Mauritius statsmauritius@mail.gov.mu http://statsmauritius.gov.mu
Contacts
Name Affiliation Email URL
Dharsing POTHEGADOO Statistics Mauritius dpothegadoo@mail.gov.mu http://statsmauritius.gov.mu
Access conditions
Public use files, accessible to all
Citation requirements
"Statistics Mauritius, Annual Survey in Schools 2011, Version 1.2 of the public use dataset (October 2011), provided by the Statistics Mauritius.

http://statsmauritius.gov.mu"

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer
The user of the data acknowledges that Statistics Mauritius bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
Copyright
(c) 2011, Statistics Mauritius

Metadata production

DDI Document ID
DDI_MUS_2011_ASS_v01_M
Producers
Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
Statistics Mauritius SM Ministry of Finance and Economic Development Documentation of the study
Date of Metadata Production
2012-04-30
DDI Document version
Version 02 (April 2019). The original documentation was downloaded from the Mauritius Microdata Catalog website (http://nada.statsmauritius.govmu.org/index.php/home).
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