Millennium Development Goals, Millennium Development Goals, Education Indicators, Education Indicators, Measurement Measurement IssuesIssues and and Activities to Improve Activities to Improve MeasurementsMeasurements Workshop on Education Indicators for Millennium Workshop on Education Indicators for Millennium Development Goals, 21-23 November 2012, Tirana, Development Goals, 21-23 November 2012, Tirana, Albania Albania

Marieta Tsaturyan, National Statistics Service, Marieta Tsaturyan, National Statistics Service, Republic of Armenia Republic of Armenia

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Current Education IndicatorsCurrent Education Indicators1. Gross enrolment ratio in primary

education,2. Proportion of pupils starting grade 1

who reach grade 5,3. Literacy rate of 15-24 year-olds,4. Ratios of girls to boys in primary

education,

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Current Education IndicatorsCurrent Education Indicators5. Ratios of girls to boys in secondary

education,6. Ratios of girls to boys in tertiary

education,7. Ratio of literate women to men, 15-

24 years old, in tertiary education.

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Education Data SourcesEducation Data Sources Indicators 1, 2, 4 and 5: Armenian

Ministry of Education and Science, Indicators 1, 3, 6 and 7: Armenian

National Statistics Service, Indicators 3 and 7: Population census

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Education Indicators: Education Indicators: Measurement IssuesMeasurement Issues

Gross enrolment ratio in primary education.

Issue: before 2010, the Armenian Ministry of Education and Science provided data on number of students by grades only. Therefore gross ratio was calculated instead of net ratio.

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Activities to Improve Education Activities to Improve Education Indicators Indicators

From 2010, the Ministry of Education and Science provides data on grades and ages which allows for calculating net enrolment ratio in primary education.

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Targets of Education Indicators for Targets of Education Indicators for Millennium Development GoalsMillennium Development Goals

1 Gross enrolment ratio in basic education (%) > 99

2 Public spending for education as part of GDP (%) > 4.5

3 Ratio of students possessing knowledge corresponding to the criteria set by the national and international education quality assessment system (%)

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4 Gross ratio of the poor enrolled in primary and secondary vocational education to the total number of students (%) >

20

5 Gross ratio of the poor enrolled in tertiary vocational education to the total number of students (%) >

107

Thank you!

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