| Data: | Pupil-teacher ratio, primary | ||||||||
| Year: | 1960 - 2013 | ||||||||
| Country: | Philippines | ||||||||
| Source: | World Bank (the information in this section is direct quotation from World Bank development data) | ||||||||
| Series Code: | SE.PRM.ENRL.TC.ZS | ||||||||
| Topic: | Education: Inputs | ||||||||
| Short Definition: | 0 | ||||||||
| Long Definition: | Primary school pupil-teacher ratio is the number of pupils enrolled in primary school divided by the number of primary school teachers (regardless of their teaching assignment). | ||||||||
| Unit of Measurement: | 0 | ||||||||
| Periodicity: | Annual | ||||||||
| Base Period: | 0 | ||||||||
| Reference Period: | 0 | ||||||||
| Aggregation method: | Weighted average | ||||||||
| Limitations and exceptions: | The comparability of pupil-teacher ratios across countries is affected by the definition of teachers and by differences in class size by grade and in the number of hours taught, as well as the different practices mentioned above. Moreover, the underlying enrollment levels are subject to a variety of reporting errors. | ||||||||
| Notes from original source: | 0 | ||||||||
| General Comments: | 0 | ||||||||
| Original Source: | United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Institute for Statistics. | ||||||||
| Statistical concept and methodology: | The
pupil-teacher ratio reflects the average number of pupils per teacher. It
differs from the average class size because of the different practices
countries employ, such as part-time teachers, school shifts, and multi-grade
classes. It is calculated by dividing the number of students in primary school by the number of teachers in primary school and multiplying the result by 100. Aggregate data are estimates by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Institute for Statistics (UIS). Data on education are collected by the UIS from official responses to its annual education survey. All the data published by the UIS are mapped to the International Standard Classification of Education 1997 (ISCED97). This classification system ensures the comparability of education programs at the international level. UNESCO developed the ISCED to facilitate comparisons of education statistics and indicators of different countries on the basis of uniform and internationally agreed definitions. First developed in the 1970s, the current version was formally adopted in November 1997. The reference years reflect the school year for which the data are presented. In some countries the school year spans two calendar years (for example, from September 2010 to June 2011); in these cases the reference year refers to the year in which the school year ended (2011 in the example). |
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| Development relevance: | The pupil-teacher ratio is often used to compare the quality of schooling across countries, but it is often weakly related to student learning and quality of education. | ||||||||
