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SACMEQ II Project 2000-2002

Africa, 2000 - 2002
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AFR_2000-2002_SACMEQ-II_v01_M
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Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality
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    Survey ID number

    AFR_2000-2002_SACMEQ-II_v01_M

    Title

    SACMEQ II Project 2000-2002

    Country
    Name Country code
    Africa AFR
    Study type

    Socio-Economic/Monitoring Survey [hh/sems]

    Abstract

    In 1991 the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) and a number of Ministries of Education in Southern and Eastern Africa began to work together in order to address training and research needs in Education. The focus for this work was on establishing long-term strategies for building the capacity of educational planners to monitor and evaluate the quality of their basic education systems. The first two educational policy research projects undertaken by SACMEQ (widely known as "SACMEQ I" and "SACMEQ II") were designed to provide detailed information that could be used to guide planning decisions aimed at improving the quality of education in primary school systems.

    During 1995-1998 seven Ministries of Education participated in the SACMEQ I Project. The SACMEQ II Project commenced in 1998 and the surveys of schools, involving 14 Ministries of Education, took place between 2000 and 2002. The survey was undertaken in schools in Botswana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zanzibar.

    Moving from the SACMEQ I Project (covering around 1100 schools and 20,000 pupils) to the SACMEQ II Project (covering around 2500 schools and 45,000 pupils) resulted in a major increase in the scale and complexity of SACMEQ's research and training programmes.

    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]

    Unit of Analysis

    Units of analysis in the survey included schools and individuals

    Version

    Version Description

    v4: Edited, anonymised data for licensed distribution

    Version Date

    2004

    Scope

    Notes

    Data was collected on pupils’ home backgrounds and their school life; classrooms, teaching practices, teachers' working conditions, and teacher housing; enrolments, school buildings and facilities, and school management.

    Topics
    Topic Vocabulary URI
    basic skills education [6.1] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    The surveys had national coverage of the countries participating in the project, including Botswana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania (including Zanzibar), Uganda, Zambia.

    Geographic Unit

    The lowest level of geographic aggregation covered by the data is province, and in some cases, metropolitan area.

    Universe

    The target population for SACMEQ's Initial Project was defined as "all pupils at the Grade 6 level in 1995 who were attending registered government or non-government schools". Grade 6 was chosen because it was the grade level where the basics of reading literacy were expected to have been acquired.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name
    Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name Role
    United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Funder
    Italian Government Funder
    Netherlands Government Funder
    Ministries of Education Funders

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    A stratified two-stage sample design was used to select around 150 schools in each country. Pupils were then selected within these schools by drawing simple random samples.

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    The data collection for SACMEQ’s Initial Project took place in October 1995 and involved the administration of questionnaires to pupils, teachers, and school heads. The pupil questionnaire contained questions about the pupils’ home backgrounds and their school life; the teacher questionnaire asked about classrooms, teaching practices, working conditions, and teacher housing; and the school head questionnaire collected information about teachers, enrolments, buildings, facilities, and management. A reading literacy test was also given to the pupils. The test was based on items that were selected after a trial-testing programme had been completed.

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2000 2002
    Data Collection Notes

    The main SACMEQ II data collection occurred for 12 of the 15 SACMEQ Ministries of Education in the period September to December 2000, the Mauritius data collection was completed in July 2001, and the Malawi data collection in September 2002.

    Data Access

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation URL Email
    SACMEQ Director, International Institute for Educational Planning UNESCO http://www.sacmeq.org info@sacmeq.org
    Access conditions

    Licensed datasets, accessible under conditions

    Citation requirements

    Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality. SACMEQ Project 1995-1998 [dataset]. Version 4. Harare: SACMEQ [producer], 2004. Paris: International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO [distributor], 2004.

    Disclaimer and copyrights

    Disclaimer

    The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

    Copyright

    Copyright, Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Policy

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_AFR_2000-2002_SACMEQ-II_v01_M

    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    DataFirst University of Cape Town DDI Producer
    Date of Metadata Production

    2012-02-29

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 01: Adopted from "ddi-af-datafirst-sacmeq2-2000-2002-v1" DDI that was done by metadata producer mentioned in "Metadata Production" section.

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