International Statistics

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Educational Attainment
Great Britain Government Statistical Service/Great Britain Department for Education and Employment. Education and Training Statistics for the United Kingdom. http://www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/VOL/v000431/index.shtml

This source provides a statistical overview of education, vocational, and work related training in the United Kingdom. Areas covered in this work include levels of expenditure on education, size of student populations, population enrolled in post secondary education, levels of academic achievement among various student populations, and data comparing the U.K. educational system with others from around the world. Available online and in book format." Hey-Kyung Koh Chin, editor, ed. Open Doors : Report on International Educational Exchange. New York, NY: Institute of International Education, 2003;	Leading source of data related to foreign student enrollments, foreign scholars, and U.S. study abroad.

'''Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). "International Archive of Educational Data." http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/IAED/2006)''' "The International Archive of Education Data (IAED) is a project sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the United States and other nations. The Archive acquires, processes, documents, and disseminates data collected by national, state or provincial, local, and private organizations, pertaining to all levels of education in countries for which data can be made available. Data will encompass the "inputs" to education (funding, personnel, teaching resources, facilities, teacher and student preparation, etc.), the variety of processes by which teaching and learning occur, and the "outputs" of education (graduation and matriculation rates, drop-out rates, test scores, job placements, life histories, life assessments, etc.). The data stored in this new Archive are intended to support a wide variety of comparative and longitudinal research through the preservation and sharing of data resources. The Archive seeks to serve the needs of academics, policymakers, and researchers in the field of education."

Gender
Matsuura, Koichir. "Gender and Education for all: The Leap to Equality." UNESCO. http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=23023&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html This is a progress report produced by UNESCO that assessed the status of gender equity in education on a worldwide scale. Included in this report are the following tables of statistics: Table I: Country background statistics; Table 2. Adult and youth literacy; Table 3. Early childhood care and education (ECCE); Table 4. Access to primary education; Table 5. Participation in primary education; Table 6. Primary education: internal efficiency; Table 7. Participation in secondary1 and post-secondary non-tertiary education; Table 8. Participation in tertiary education; Table 9. Tertiary education: field of study (%) and female share; Table 10. Teaching staff; Table 11. Private enrolment and education finance. This report is also available in paper format.

National Center for Education Statistics. "International Comparisons in Education." http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/international/

"NCES supports a variety of activities to provide statistical data for cross-national comparisons of education. These activities focus on 2 major areas: indicators and assessments. For the Indicators of National Education Systems (INES) project, the United States, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and other countries collaborate to develop comparable measures of everything from student enrollment and teacher salaries to graduation rates."

'''National Center for Education Statistics. "International Education Indicators: A Time Series Perspective, 1985-1995." http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2000/2000021.pdf''' "International Education Indicators: A Time Series Perspective, 1985-1995 compares educational trends in economically developed countries over time. The countries examined in this report are members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), an organization of 29 countries dedicated to promoting economic growth and development around the world. This report extends the earlier National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) publication International Education Indicators: A Time Series Perspective from a seven-to an 11-year time series to provide a more comprehensive picture of continuity and change in countries' education systems.".

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and UNESCO Institute for Statistics. "UNESCO Institute for Statistics." Unesco. http://stats.uis.unesco.org/ReportFolders/reportfolders.aspx

This source provides international data from the UNESCO used for research on the level of educational support and the factors contributing to education success worldwide. One can find international statistics focusing on enrollment data, student achievement, secondary and tertiary education and much more.

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). “Education at a Glance 2005.” http://www.oecd.org/document/34/0,2340,en_2649_34515_35289570_1_1_1_1,00.html (accessed Oct. 30, 2006). Statistical data from OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries that compare student achievement, levels of education, work force outcomes of education and other areas.

'''Sherman, Joel D., Honegger, Steven D., McGivern, Jennifer L. and National Center for Education Statistics. "Comparative Indicators of Education in the United States and Other G8 Countries." http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2005021'''

This report, produced by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), provides comparative data between the United States and the other G8 countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom). Included in this report are tables comparing academic achievement, test scores, student’s attitudes towards education, teacher salaries, percentage of university degrees awarded and more. Explanatory text accompanies all data.

'''United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. “UNESCO Institute for Statistics.” http://www.uis.unesco.org/ev.php?URL_ID=5275&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=20 (accessed Oct. 30, 2006).''' The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Institute for Statistics contains education, literacy, gender disparities, out-of-school children and other statistics obtained from UNESCO member states. Click on the “Statistics” link on the far left of this page for additional data.

'''UNESCO Institute for Statistics. "Global Education Digest." http://www.uis.unesco.org/ev_en.php?ID=6513_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC''' "Presents a wide range of comparable education indicators which can be used to assess progress towards the Education for All and Millennium Development Goals. These cross-national indicators are also useful for benchmarking the performance of a national education system to those in other countries. The Digest provides data for 2004 or the latest year available, as well as a selection of key indicators for 1999, to allow comparisons over time."

'''UNESCO/OECD World Education Indicators Programme. "Education Trends in Perspective: Analysis of the World Education Indicators." http://www.uis.unesco.org/ev.php?ID=6192_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC. 2006'''

'''World Bank. Education in Rwanda: Rebalancing Resources to Accelerate Post-Conflict Development and Poverty Reduction. A World Bank Country Study. Washington D.C.: World Bank, 2004.'''

This report, produced by the World Bank, provides a plethora of statistics on education in Rwanda. Provided in this report are statistics that document the condition of Rwanda’s education system through 20001. Included are population and demographic statistics as they relate to education, data on public spending for education, educational attainment and many other aspects of Rwanda’s educational system including tertiary or post secondary education.