{"doc_desc":{"title":"Census of Government Schools - 1996","idno":"DDI-LKA-MOE-CGS-1996-v1.0","producers":[{"name":"Department of Census and Statistics","abbreviation":"DCS","affiliation":"Ministry of Finance and Planning","role":"Documentation"},{"name":"Ministry of Education","abbreviation":"MOE","affiliation":"Government of Sri Lanka","role":"Data Collection"}],"prod_date":"2009-05-21","version_statement":{"version":"Version 1.0 ( May 2009 )."}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"LKA-MOE-CGS-1996-v1.0","title":"Census of Government Schools - 1996","alt_title":"CGS-1996"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Statistics Division, Minstry of Education","affiliation":""}],"production_statement":{"copyright":"(C) 1996, Ministry of Education"},"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"Statistics Division","affiliation":"Ministry of Education","email":"mail.moe.gov.lk","uri":"www.moe.gov.lk"}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Administrative Records, Education (ad\/edu]","series_info":"The Census of Schools  has been conducted, since 1960. This  census   is  the  forty third one in a series of censuses  conducted  annually.  This census provides valuable information about goverment school and teachers to policy makers, planners and researchers.. \n\nThe questionnaire is filled by Principals of the schools  and it contains following parts.\n\n    - Identification information about the school\n    - Details about the school children\n    - Physical facilities\n    - Non academic staff\n    - Details about the teachers"},"version_statement":{"version":"v1.0: Full edited dataset, original version  for internal  use of the Minitry of Education.","version_date":"2009-05-21"},"study_info":{"topics":[{"topic":"EDUCATION [6]","vocab":"CESSDA","uri":"http:\/\/www.nesstar.org\/rdf\/common"}],"abstract":"The Ministry of Education has conducted an uninterrupted series of annual school census for well over four decades.\nThe main objective of the census is to collect following information\n    - Information about the school\n    - Students\n    - Teachers\n    -  Physical Resources","coll_dates":[{"start":"1996-07-01","end":"1996-07-01","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"Sri Lanka","abbreviation":""}],"geog_coverage":"National Coverage - Government Schools","analysis_unit":"School\nStudent\nTeacher","universe":"All Government Schools","data_kind":"Census\/enumeration data [cen]","notes":"The scope of the School Census - 1996 includes:\n\n    Section 1 : Identification Information\n    Section 1.2A  : Students in School ( on 1996 July 1st )\n    Section 1.2B  : Students by age & grade\n    Section 1.2C  : Students who failed\n    Section 1.3     : Aesthetic  and  Technical  Subjects  Teach in Grade 6 - Grade 11\n    Section 1.4    :  Students  who  sat  for  A\/L  Examination  and  Students  who  Qualified to Enter  the  University  \n    Section 1.5    :  Permanent  Teachers by Appointment Nature\n    Section 1.6    : Pensioned and Transferred Teachers during 01-06-1995 to 30-06-1996\n    Section  1.7   : Student Fees & School Development Board & Student Unions Funds\n    Section  2.1   : Sports and other activities\n    Section  2.2   : Sports  Umpires in the School\n    Section  2.3   : Details of Various Clubs & Societies \n    Section  2.4.1   :  Details of Buildings\n    Section  2.4.2   :  Details of Laboratories for A\/L Students \n    Section  2.4.2   :  Details of Laboratories for Grade 6-11 Students \n    Section  2.4.3   :  Details of Rooms Allocated to Various Subjects\n    Section  2.4.4   :  Details of Hostel Facilities\n    Section  2.4.5   :   Details of Library, Staff quarters , Halls etc;\n    Section  2.4.6.1   :   Details of  Wells, Bathrooms & Toilets    \n    Section  2.4.6.2   :   Details of Equipment such as Duplicating machine, Computers, Photo Copiers etc;\n    Section  2.4.6.3   :   Details of Sports Facilities\n    Section  2.5          :   Details of Land belongs to the School\n    Section  2.6          :   Details of Non-Academic Staff\n    \n         Details of Teachers"},"method":{"data_collection":{"coll_mode":["Mail Questionnaire [mail]"],"coll_situation":"The questionnaires are handed over to the Divisional Directors.\nDivisional Directors distributed the questionnaires to the schools in their divisions\nDivisional Director collects the filled questionnaires and handed over to the Zonal office.\nData entry is done by the Zonal office and data file is mailed to the Statistical Branch of Ministry of Education.","method_notes":"Data processing included the following steps. \n\n     1.  Accepting the data files from the zonal offices through e-mail  by Statistical Branch of the MOE.\n     2.  Run edit program.\n     3.  Produce error report and return to the Zonal office\n     4.  Correction of errors on the report by the Zonal Office\n     5.  Re-run the edit program and repeat the error correction procedure\n     6.  Merge the data files \n     7..  Produce final tables on clean data ."}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"conf_dec":[{"txt":"The degree of confidentiality of this microdata set is determined by the Access Authority. Please refer to the Access Authority for further details.","required":"yes","form_no":"","uri":""}],"contact":[{"name":"Additional Secretary Planning","affiliation":"Ministry of Education","email":"mail.moe.gov.lk","uri":"www.moe.gov.lk"}],"cit_req":"\"Department of Census and Statistics, Census of Schools 1996 [CGS-1996],Version 1.0 of the public use dataset. (May 2009 )\"","conditions":"Please contact the Access Authority for Access Terms and Conditions.","disclaimer":"The Department of Census and Statistics and the Ministry of Education will bear no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the secondary use of the data."}}},"schematype":"survey"}