DDI_HND_2000_PETSE_v01_M Antonina Redko 2011-09-22 NADA v01 (September 2011) Public Expenditure Tracking Survey in Education 2000 PETSE 2000 HND_2000_PETSE_v01_M Government of Honduras World Bank NADA Hooman Dabidian Cindy Audiguier Public Expenditure Tracking Survey A Public Expenditure Tracking Survey (PETS) is a diagnostic tool used to study the flow of public funds from the center to service providers. It has successfully been applied in many countries around the world where public accounting systems function poorly or provide unreliable information. The PETS has proven to be a useful tool to identify and quantify the leakage of funds. The PETS has also served as an analytical tool for understanding the causes underlying problems, so that informed policies can be developed. Finally, PETS results have successfully been used to improve transparency and accountability by supporting "power of information" campaigns. PETS are often combined with Quantitative Service Delivery Surveys (QSDS) in order to obtain a more complete picture of the efficiency and equity of a public allocation system, activities at the provider level, as well as various agents involved in the process of service delivery. While most of PETS and QSDS have been conducted in the health and education sectors, a few have also covered other sectors, such as justice, Early Childhood Programs, water, agriculture, and rural roads. In the past decade, about 40 PETS and QSDS have been implemented in about 30 countries. While a large majority of these surveys have been conducted in Africa, which currently accounts for 66 percent of the total number of studies, PETS/QSDS have been implemented in all six regions of the World Bank (East Asia and Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa). Primary Education Secondary Education Honduras has achieved steady improvement in many key educational indicators over the last three decades. With public education spending running at 4.6 percent of GDP in 1996, Honduras compared relatively well with other Central American and Latin American countries. But in spite of Honduras' relatively strong funding effort and high coverage, its outcomes in primary education were not notably superior to those of its neighbors, and its coverage of secondary education compared unfavorably with other countries. This study quantified the discrepancies between the budgetary and actual assignments of staff and analyzed the degree of attendance at work. Unlike other Public Expenditure Tracking Survey (PETS), the unit of analysis was the sector staff (both operational and administrative staff from all levels) instead of the facility. 660 employees in 20 primary and 20 secondary schools were surveyed. Honduras Sample survey data [ssd] The first step during sampling process was to select 44 workplaces, stratified as follows: the ministry, 3 departmental offices, 20 primary schools and 20 secondary schools. The workplaces were ordered geographically. In the second step the following numbers of staff were selected in each type of workplace: 140 non-teaching staff (including 80 in the central ministry, 20 in departments, 20 head teachers in primary schools and 20 in secondary schools); 200 primary teachers, and 320 secondary teachers. The latter were further subdivided into four sub-groups with a sample of 80 teachers in each group (Ciclo Comuin, Comercio, Polivaliente y Bachillerato). These sample sizes were chosen bearing in mind the expected variance within the different sub-strata. Face-to-face [f2f] Use of the survey data must be acknowledged using a citation which would include: - the identification of the Primary Investigator (including country name) - the full title of the survey and its acronym (when available), and the year(s) of implementation - the survey reference number. Public Use File 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.