DDI-MCC-NAM-MPR-COSDEC-2017-v1
DDI_NAM_2016_MCC-CSDC_v01_M
Mathematica Policy Research
Development Data Group
2017-09-15
Nesstar Publisher
The COSDEC survey sample included all individuals who enrolled in national courses starting between July and December 2014 in the seven targeted COSDECs. This intake was the first one expected to fully benefit from the subactivity (COSDECs typically have two main intakes per year, one in each half of the year, and the interventions were completed only by mid-2014).
Namibia Compact
Education (Edu)
MCC's Namibia compact, which was formally completed in September 2014, included three projects: tourism, agriculture, and education. The education project sought to address the shortage of skilled workers in Namibia and limitations in the education system's capacity to create a skilled workforce. One of the key activities under the education project was the vocational training activity, which focused on expanding the availability, quality, and relevance of vocational education and skills training in Namibia. The vocational training activity consisted of three subactivities: (1) grants for high-priority vocational skills programs offered by public and private training providers through the Vocational Training Grant Fund (VTGF); (2) technical assistance to establish a National Training Fund (NTF), intended to provide a sustainable source of funding for vocational training programs in Namibia; and (3) improvement and expansion of Namibia's network of Community Skills and Development Centers (COSDECs), which provide vocational training targeting marginalized populations-primarily out-of-school youth but also including low-skilled adults. These metadata relate to the evaluation of the COSDEC subactivity.
Community Skills Development Centers 2016
MCC-CSDC 2016
NAM_2016_MCC-CSDC_v01_M
Mathematica Policy Research
Nesstar Publisher
Millennium Challenge Corporation
Monitoring & Evaluation Division of the Millennium Challenge Corporation
Independent Performance Evaluation
Anonymized dataset for public distribution
Version 02 is the edited version produced by Development Data Group (The World Bank) based on Version 01 (DDI-MCC-NAM-MPR-COSDEC-2017-v1) that was done by Millennium Challenge Corporation. Data was downloaded from https://data.mcc.gov/evaluations/index.php/catalog/199/
Education
Vocational education and training
Namibia
Vocational education and training
Education
The performance evaluation of the COSDEC subactivity integrated a qualitative analysis and a quantitative outcomes analysis. The qualitative analysis explored implementation of the subactivity, how it evolved after the compact, and its sustainability. It relied on two rounds of qualitative data: one conducted close to the end of the Namibia compact, and a second conducted about a year later. The qualitative data drew on focus groups with COSDEC trainees and interviews with COSDEC managers, the COSDEF (the body that oversees the COSDECs), implementers, employers, and other stakeholders. The outcomes analysis sought to describe the characteristics and outcomes of enrollees in the seven new or renovated COSDECs. It relied on a survey of COSDEC enrollees that collected information about their training and labor market outcomes about one year after the end of COSDEC training. The COSDEC enrollee survey and the second round of qualitative data informed the final COSDEC evaluation report. (The findings from the first round of qualitative data were provided in an interim evaluation report covering all three subactivities.) The data from the COSDEC enrollee survey are available for public use, but the qualitative data are not because of the risks to confidentiality.
Namibia
COSDEC providers throughout Namibia.
Individuals
All enrollees in the 36 national courses that started in the seven new and renovated COSDECs between July and December 2014.
Sample survey data [ssd]
Survey Warehouse
The targeted sample for the COSDEC evaluation consists of all 934 enrollees in the national courses that started in the seven new and renovated COSDECs between July and December 2014. Of these enrollees, 642 completed a survey, and constitute the analytic sample used for the analysis.
Based on a request from COSDEF, we also administered the survey to enrollees in COSDEC Benguela (Lüderitz)--the only COSDEC not affected by the subactivity. COSDEF funded this additional data collection because they wanted comparable data and summary statistics for all the COSDECs in Namibia for their internal purposes, but our evaluation only covered the seven new and renovated COSDECs. Because data for COSDEC Benguela were entirely outside the evaluation, we have excluded this COSDEC from the public use dataset. The appendix to the COSDEC final report contains additional information about the data for COSDEC Benguela.
Computer Assisted Telephone Interview [cati]
The COSDEC survey was developed by Mathematica, and was a computer-assisted survey that was conducted by telephone. The survey was developed in English and was translated into Afrikaans, Oshiwambo, Otjiherero, and Rukwangali; the translated versions were used for respondents who were not comfortable in English. The survey included the following modules: (1) education and vocational training; (2) employment and earnings; (3) income and household demographics; and (4) health behaviors (related to HIV/AIDS and pregnancy).
The COSDEC survey was conducted by Survey Warehouse from January to June 2016, with oversight from Mathematica. Interviews were conducted in English, Afrikaans, Oshiwambo, Otjiherero, or Rukwangali using a computer-assisted telephone interview system. Although the plan was for the survey to occur roughly one year after the scheduled end of each training, in practice the timing varied somewhat (between 12 and 16 months). However, the median was one year after the end of training (12 months).
The data were collected by a handful of interviewers who worked from Survey Warehouse( SW) office in Windhoek. These were supervised by a senior on-site SW staff member. Mathematica staff provided support as required.
Mathematica conducted cleaning of the raw data file in Stata, which included checking the validity of variable values and ranges; verifying skip patterns; cleaning and back-coding common "other-specify" responses; creating binaries of categorical variables; and recoding skips, missing data, and other non-response values to standardized lettered indicators. Mathematica then merged these data with sample information related to the COSDEC training in which each individual was enrolled (for example, provider, course name, and course duration).
The response rate to the follow-up survey in the seven new or rennovated COSDECs was 68.7 percent.
The survey data were intended to cover the universe of applicants to the included trainings, and did not involve any sampling. The only source of error in the estimated means is survey non-response. Users can therefore rely on standard formulae to calculate the sampling error for the estimated means.
Public use files, accessible to all.
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.
COSDEC_followup_PUF.NSDstat
This dataset provides information from " Phone Survey Questionnaire - Final Version" Section B: Education, Section C: Employment and Earnings, Section D: Income and Household Demographics, Section E: Demographic Information, Section F: Health Behaviours.
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MPRID
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Estimated survey date
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2016-01-07
2016-06-20
2016-01-07
37
2016-01-08
18
2016-01-11
28
2016-01-12
37
2016-01-13
24
2016-01-14
23
2016-01-15
15
2016-01-18
13
2016-01-19
12
2016-01-20
6
2016-01-21
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2016-01-22
1
2016-01-25
2
2016-01-26
3
2016-01-27
3
2016-01-29
1
2016-02-03
1
2016-02-04
27
2016-02-05
4
2016-02-08
1
2016-02-11
1
2016-02-12
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2016-03-02
46
2016-03-03
6
2016-03-05
10
2016-03-07
4
2016-03-08
1
2016-03-09
2
2016-03-10
1
2016-03-11
1
2016-03-14
41
2016-03-15
48
2016-03-16
13
2016-03-17
9
2016-03-18
2
2016-03-22
3
2016-03-31
61
2016-04-01
13
2016-04-04
35
2016-04-05
21
2016-04-06
3
2016-04-07
1
2016-04-15
40
2016-04-18
3
2016-04-28
2
2016-05-10
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2016-06-15
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2016-06-20
1
What is the highest level of education you have completed?
What is the highest level of education that you have completed?
Probe when necessary.
642
0
1
Never attended or completed primary school
16
2
Primary school (grade 7) not completed
0
3
Primary school (grade 7) completed
12
4
Grade 8 or equivalent completed
77
5
Grade 10 or equivalent completed
263
6
Grade 12 or higher education completed
272
7
Attended at least some higher education beyond grade 12
0
99
Other
2
2147483625
Don't know
0
2147483635
Not applicable
0
2147483639
Refused
0
Are you currently enrolled in any vocational training programme?
Are you currently enrolled or registered in or going to any vocational training programme?
By vocational training we mean training that emphasizes skills and knowledge required for a particular job or trade. it covers a large number of careers and industries like trades and office work, retail, hospitality and technology.
642
0
0
No
624
1
Yes
18
99
Other
0
2147483625
Don't know
0
2147483635
Not applicable
0
2147483639
Refused
0
In the past 3 years, have you been enrolled in any vocational training progr
Since July 2014, have you been enrolled or registered in or gone to any vocational training programme?