Trends in Out-of-School Children and Other Basic Education Statistics

Type Working Paper - PIDS Discussion Paper Series
Title Trends in Out-of-School Children and Other Basic Education Statistics
Author(s)
Issue 2016-39
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2016
URL https://dirp3.pids.gov.ph/websitecms/CDN/PUBLICATIONS/pidsdps1639.pdf
Abstract
The Philippines has put a lot of importance to the basic education sector. The immediate past government provided more resources to the sector, in support of the Philippine Development Plan as well as to attain commitments to global goals, including the Millennium Development Goals and its successor, the Sustainable Development Goals (which include SDG4 to achieve quality education for all). In this paper, various education indicators sourced from administrative reporting systems of the Department of Education, as well as sample surveys conducted by the Philippine Statistics Authority are examined for monitoring and evaluation of the basic education sector. Further, these data sources on education statistics are scrutinized for describing persisting disparities among various groups (e.g., boys versus girls, poor and non-poor, urban and rural population), and for probing into why some children continue to be out of school. Measurement issues and policy implications are also discussed.

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