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Glossary
Adjusted net enrolment ratio (ANER). Enrolment of
the official age group for a given level of education
either at that level or the levels above, expressed as a
percentage of the population in that age group.
Adult literacy rate. Number of literate persons aged
15 and above, expressed as a percentage of the total
population in that age group.
Age-specific enrolment ratio (ASER). Enrolment of
a given age or age group, regardless of the level of
education in which pupils or students are enrolled,
expressed as a percentage of the population of the
same age or age group.
Child or under-5 mortality rate. Probability of dying
between birth and the fifth birthday, expressed per
1,000 live births.
Completion rate by level. Percentage of children aged
three to five years older than the official age of entry
into the last grade of an education level who have
reached the last grade of that level. For example, the
primary attainment rate in a country with a 6-year
cycle where the official age of entry into the last grade
is 11 years is the percentage of 14 -16 year olds who
have reached grade 6.
Conflict affected country. For a given year, any country
with 1,000 or more battle-related deaths (including
fatalities among civilians and military actors) over the
preceding 10-year period and/or more than 200 battlerelated
deaths in any one year over the preceding
3-year period, according to the Uppsala Conflict Data
Program Battle-Related Deaths Dataset.
Constant prices. Prices of a particular item adjusted
to remove the overall effect of general price changes
(inflation) since a given baseline year.
Dropout rate by grade. Percentage of students who drop
out of a given grade in a given school year.
Early childhood care and education (ECCE). Services
and programmes that support children’s survival,
growth, development and learning – including health,
nutrition and hygiene, and cognitive, social, emotional
and physical development – from birth to entry into
primary school.
Early Childhood Development Index (ECDI). Index of
fulfilment of developmental potential that assesses
children aged 36-59 months in four domains: literacy/
numeracy, physical, socio-emotional, and cognitive
development. The information is collected through the
UNICEF Multiple Indicators Cluster Surveys. A child is
‘on track’ overall if it is ‘on track’ in at least three of the
four domains.
Education levels according to the International
Standard Classification of Education (ISCED), which
is the classification system designed to serve as an
instrument for assembling, compiling and presenting
comparable indicators and statistics of education
both within countries and internationally. The system,
introduced in 1976, was revised in 1997 and 2011.
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Pre-primary education (ISCED level 0). Programmes
at the initial stage of organized instruction, primarily
designed to introduce very young children, aged
at least 3 years, to a school-type environment
and provide a bridge between home and school.
Variously referred to as infant education, nursery
education, pre-school education, kindergarten or
early childhood education, such programmes are the
more formal component of ECCE. Upon completion
of these programmes, children continue their
education at ISCED 1 (primary education).
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Primary education (ISCED level 1). Programmes
generally designed to give pupils a sound basic
education in reading, writing and mathematics, and
an elementary understanding of subjects such as
history, geography, natural sciences, social sciences,
art and music.
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Secondary education (ISCED levels 2 and 3).
Programmes made up of two stages: lower and
upper secondary. Lower secondary education
(ISCED 2) is generally designed to continue the basic
programmes of the primary level but the teaching
is typically more subject- focused, requiring more
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