“Effective enrolment” - Creating a composite measure of educational access and educational quality to accurately describe education system performance in sub-Saharan Africa
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Keywords
Access to education; quality of education; educational statistics; Education For All; Millenium Development Goals; SACMEQ; DHS;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
- I25 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Economic Development
- I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy
- I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2012-12-06 (Africa)
- NEP-DEV-2012-12-06 (Development)
- NEP-EDU-2012-12-06 (Education)
- NEP-LAB-2012-12-06 (Labour Economics)
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