Ministry of Education Directorate of EMIS

Ministry of Education Summary Report of Education Situation ,Year 1388
take the form back to school and fix the problem. After completion of all schools in each province,
the forms were returned to MoE statistics department.
The completed survey forms were validated by a team of statistics officers and surveyors in Kabul
before the data was manually entered into the computer. In case of any inconsistencies the surveyors
were called in to call up their provincial counterparts to verify the information.
Data entry took two months and a total of 230 staff to complete. It was entered into a special
database program developed by an EMIS department. A team of experts run and checks on the data
entered to verify the veracity of the entries which was collected from the field. At the end of the data
entry process, the EMIS department staff was required to verify a random number of pages of the
data entered to check for errors. Finally, post data entry validation checks were run on all the
information entered to reduce data entry errors.
Based on the survey results, data was further analyzed by different entities. The tabulated data is
presented in the appendix of this report. However, the followings consist of some of the summary
data presented to illustrate the current situation upon which at the end of the analysis certain
conclusions have been drawn.
3.1 Limitations
Deteriorating security situation in a number of provinces did not allow surveyors to visit all the
schools in the provinces. Since having a complete dataset of schools in Afghanistan was one of the
primary aims of the survey, the headmasters from those schools not visited were brought into the
provincial centers with the documents to fill the survey forms. Even this could not be done for many
schools as headmasters in some of the most insecure districts were not comfortable travelling with
these documents. For such schools a separate form was developed to obtain data based on the
records of the schools maintained in the provincial education department and best estimates were
derived.
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