{"doc_desc":{"title":"Census of Government Schools - 1997","idno":"DDI-LKA-MOE-CGS-1997-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":"2009-05-28","version_statement":{"version":"Version 1.0 ( May 2009 )."}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"LKA-MOE-CGS-1997-v1.0","title":"Census of Government Schools - 1997","alt_title":"CGS-1997"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Statistics Division, Minstry of Education","affiliation":""}],"production_statement":{"copyright":"(C) 1997, 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   the  fourty 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":"2009-05-28","version_notes":"v1.0 - This is the first version of the microdata set created for the use of DPD for archiving purposes.\n\nWhen issuing the dataset to other institutions new versions should be created and the Version Notes DDI's updated accordingly."},"study_info":{"topics":[{"topic":"EDUCATION [6]","vocab":"CESSDA","uri":"http:\/\/www.nesstar.org\/rdf\/common"}],"abstract":"Education information is essential for the management of the education system in the country. Without proper information the situation of education cannot be assessed and the causes leading to problems cannot be analysed. In the absence of such analysis, actions to remedy the problems, that deny the rights of children to quality basic education cannot be assured. \n\n\nThe Ministry of Education has conducted an uninterrupted series of annual school census for wel over four decades.\nThe main objective of the census is to collect following information\n    - Information about the school\n    - Students\n    - Teachers","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 - 1997 includes:\n\n    Section 1 : Identification Information\n    Section 1.2A  : Students in School ( on 1997 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    :  Permanant  Teachers by Appointment Nature\n    Section 1.6    : Pensioned and Transfered Teachers during 01-06-1996 to 30-06-1997\n    Section  1.7   : Student Fees & School Development Board & Student Unions Funds\n      \nDetails about the 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 enntry is done by the Zonal office and data file is mailed to the Ststistical 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, 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"}