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Education
District 1 District 1 District 1 District 1 Total
p-value
Demographic Variables
N
%
N
%
N
%
N
%
N
%
Whether orphans and
187
95.4
145
74.4
169
85.8
184
92.9
685
87.2
0.000
vulnerable children
ever attended school
Reason for not attending school
Death of parent(s)/guardian(s)
8
88.9
34
72.3
18
72.0
6
46.2
66
70.2
Financial problems
1
11.1
9
19.1
4
16
2
15.4
16
17
Lack of school space
-
-
3
6.4
3
12.0
5
38.5
9
9.6
Does not like school
-
-
1
2.1
1
1.1
-
-
-
-
Currently attending school
96
51.3
71
48.3
71
40.1
102
54.0
340
48.6
0.049
Reasons for not currently attending school
0.000
Death of parent(s)
18
9.0
10
5.1
33
16.5
3
1.5
64
8.0
Failed exams
11
5.5
9
4.6
2
1.0
-
-
22
11.1
Financial problems
49
26.4
39
20.0
45
22.6
11
5.6
144
18.3
Type of schools attended
0.008
Government
70
74.5
50
73.5
55
77.5
93
91.2
268
80.0
Private
7
7.4
2
2.9
1
1.4
3
2.9
13
3.9
Community
17
18.1
16
23.5
15
21.1
6
5.9
54
16.1
Current grade level
0.055
Lower primary (1 – 4)
4
4.2
11
15.8
13
19.0
1
4.3
29
11.4
Upper primary (5 – 7)
68
71.6
24
34.7
42
61.7
14
60.8
148
58.1
Junior secondary (8 – 9)
18
19.0
25
36.2
11
16.2
5
21.7
59
23.1
Senior secondary (10 – 12)
5
5.3
9
13.0
2
3.0
3
13.0
19
7.5
Graphics should be self-contained because people who
read a report often want to reproduce graphics to use in
their own presentations, or in combination with other
data. A good graphic contains:
• Title that clearly specifies what is being measured,
including the population in the denominator and the
location and time (e.g., year) of data collection.
Parameters of the indicator should also be specified in
the graphic, although if this overloads the graph titles,
they can be included in the axes titles or a legend.
• Source and date.
• Value labels for each data point. This allows people
to read off values and either re-create the graph or
refer to them in text or a presentation. If there are
many data points on a graph and data labels are
likely to cause confusion, the base data for the graph
can be presented in an accompanying table.
• Significance levels and/or confidence intervals. In
technical reports, the p-value itself may be reported
on the data series for the graph. For general presentation,
relevant data series can simply be labeled
“statistically significant.”
Answering Analysis Questions
A major component of the situation analysis report is
the summary of the data as it relates to the themes and
related questions generated by the Situation Analysis
Advisory Team. As mentioned previously, one of the first
tasks of the Advisory Team is to identify topic areas and
to determine what and how data can provide depth of
understanding about the situation of vulnerable children.
It may be easiest to arrange questions by topic areas or
themes and to write the report so that the text answers
the questions in a simple and straightforward manner.
The Situation Analysis Manager and Technical Lead may
need to meet, perhaps several times, with other Advisory
Team members to review the data and results from different
data collection tools and determine how to answer
particular questions.
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