News
This
page lists
updates to the site. The most recent updates are shown first.
- 16 December 2007: UNICEF statistical review: Progress for
Children
- 9 December 2007: Primary
school attendance by state in India
- 3 December 2007: EFA Global Monitoring Report 2008
- 19 November 2007: Primary
school attendance in India in 2006
- 13 November 2007: India has 21 million children out of school
- 22 October 2007: Global Education Digest 2007
- 26 September 2007: Secondary school attendance in Nepal, 1996-2006
- 14
August 2007: Primary
school attendance in Nepal, 1996-2006
- 7
August 2007: Disparity between male and female literacy
rates
- 29 July 2007: UN
Millennium Development Goals Report 2007
- 22
July 2007: Disparity between adult and youth literacy
- 15
July 2007: Youth literacy rates
- 9
July 2007: Adult literacy rates
- 30
June 2007: UNESCO releases data from 2006 education survey
- 1
June 2007: Caste, ethnicity, and school attendance in
Nepal
- 1 May 2007: Primary
and secondary school attendance in
Nepal
- 1 April 2007: Two Stata guides on
this site have
been updated. The guide to creating maps with Stata
now covers the recently released module spmap by Maurizio Pisati, an
update to his tmap module. Both spmap and tmap are free add-ons for the
Stata statistical package. The guide
to creating PNG images with Stata was also revised.
- 25
March 2007: Education
country profiles by UNICEF
- 10
March 2007: Nepal: trends in primary education, 1980-2004
- 27
February 2007: Global trends in primary and secondary
education, 2000-2004
- 27 January 2007: Official
school ages: primary, secondary, and
compulsory education
- 1 January 2007: All
articles on my blog
on education statistics are now labeled with
keywords. This feature was introduced with a new version of Blogger,
launched on 19 December 2006. Clicking on a label leads to a page
containing all posts with the particular label (example: all posts labeled "India"). In
addition, I continue to use del.icio.us
tags for all posts on the blog, as described in my article
on blog categories. I also added the backlinks feature of Blogger that
provides a list of links to an article.
- 24
December 2006: "The State of the World's Children 2007" by
UNICEF: Gender disparity in primary and secondary school
- 7
December 2006: Years
of schooling and literacy, part 2
- 27
November 2006: Years
of schooling and literacy: Can everyone
with primary education read and write?
- 14
November 2006: EFA
Development Index: Assessing progress toward Education for All
- 27
October 2006: The UNESCO
Institute for Statistics (UIS) has announced the final
release of data from its 2005 education survey. The data, an update of
the initial release from April 2006, can be downloaded from the UIS education database. I used the
data to update two recent posts on primary
school enrollment in 2004 and on trends
in primary school enrollment from 1970 to 2004.
- 29
September 2006: Trends in primary school enrollment, 1970-2004
- 7
September 2006: Primary
school enrollment in 2004, with the latest statistics
realeased by UNESCO.
- 30 August 2006: Additions to
the section on supported editors in the guide
to integrating Stata and external text
editors.
- 20 August 2006: Millennium
Development Goal regions and UNICEF regions
- 4
August 2006: Child labor and school attendance in Bolivia,
part 2
- 30 June 2006: Child
labor and school attendance in Bolivia
- 22
June 2006: My guide
to integrating Stata and external text editors
has been updated with a new section on supported editors. So far, six
editors are listed: EmEditor, Hidemaru, jEdit, TextPad, Vim, and
WinEdt. If you
know of other editors that work with the AutoIt scripts described in
the guide, please send a message to fhuebler@gmail.com so that
I
can update the list of supported editors.
- 29 May
2006: Guide to blog categories
- 29
May 2006: Secondary school attendance in Bolivia
- 26
April 2006: UNESCO has released the 2006 edition of its annual Global Education Digest,
with data for 2004 or the latest year available. The focus of this
year's edition is tertiary education. The 2006 Global Education Digest
can be downloaded in PDF format from the website of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics
(UIS). The UIS also provides the statistical tables from the report in
Excel format. I will use the data to update my global overview of primary
and secondary
school enrollment and other statistics on this site.
- 19
April 2006: Primary school attendance in Bolivia
- 13
April 2006: Update to Creating maps with Stata. Users of
Stata 9.1 or a more recent version can now convert shapefiles
directly to Stata format with a new program called shp2dta.
- 11
April 2006: Primary
completion rate 2002/03
- 20 March 2006: 115
million children out of school
- 6 February
2006: Maps
with international education statistics
- 5
February 2006: Guide to creating maps with
Stata updated
- 21 January 2006: Household
wealth and school attendance in Nigeria
- 21
January 2006: List of recommended freeware updated