{"doc_desc":{"title":"Census of Government Schools - 2008","idno":"DDI-LKA-MOE-CGS2008-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":"2009-10-12","version_statement":{"version":"Version 1.0 ( October 2009 )."}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"LKA-MOE-CGS-2008-v1.0","title":"Census of Government Schools - 2008","alt_title":"CGS-2008"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Statistics Division, Minstry of Education","affiliation":"Government of Sri Lanka"}],"oth_id":[{"name":"Department of Census and Statistics","affiliation":"","email":"","role":"Data Processing"}],"production_statement":{"copyright":"(C) 2009, Ministry of Education","funding_agencies":[{"name":"Government of Sri Lanka","abbreviation":"GOSL","role":""}]},"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 sixth 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    - Details about the disabled students\n    - Physical facilities\n    - Non academic staff\n    - Details about the teachers"},"version_statement":{"version":"v1.0: Full edited dataset, original version  for internal  DPD use.","version_date":"2009-10-12","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":"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 schools\n    - Students\n    - Teachers\n    - Non-academic staff\n    - Physical facilities","coll_dates":[{"start":"2008-06-01","end":"2008-06-01","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"Sri Lanka","abbreviation":"LKA"}],"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 - 2008 includes:\n\n    Part 1 : Identification Information\n    Part 2 : Students by medium\n    Part 3 : Students by birth year\n    Part 4 : Students who failed in the year 2007\n    Part 5 : Students in grade 1\n    Part 6 : A\/L Science Students\n    Part 7 : Students by grade according to the subjects study ( Religion, Technical subjects and Easthetic )\n    Part 8A : Disabled students\n    Part 8B : Disabled students by birth year\n    Part 9 : Student by race and religion\n    Part 10A : Students who obtained grade 5 scholarship grants\n    Part 10B : Students in grade 6\n    Part 11 : Examination Reults ( Year 2007 )\n                     - Grade 5\n                     - G. C. E. (O\/L)\n                     - G. C. E. (A\/L)\n      Part 12 : Health and Nutrition programmes in the school\n      Part 13 : Physical resources\n                       - Toilet facilities\n                       - Science Laboratories ( Grade 6-11 )\n                       - Science Laboratories ( A\/L Students )\n                       - Library\n                       - Resources of the Library and the Educational Resources Centre \n                       - School Land\n                       - Computer in the Scshool\n        Part 14 : Allocations for Qualitative Improvents in 2007 \n        Part 15 : Transfered, Resigned and Retired Teachers in 2007\n        Part 16 : Non Academic Staff Members Details\n         \n         Deatils of Teachers"},"method":{"data_collection":{"coll_mode":["Mail Questionnaire [mail]"],"research_instrument":"Used the same questionnaire used in 2007 Census.\n   \n     \nThe schedule  of the School Census - 2008 includes following parts:\n\n    Part 1 : Identification Information\n    Part 2 : Students by medium\n    Part 3 : Students by birth year\n    Part 4 : Students who failed in the year 2007\n    Part 5 : Students in grade 1\n    Part 6 : A\/L Science Students\n    Part 7 : Students by grade bysubjects studied ( Religion, Technical subjects and Easthetic )\n    Part 8A : Disabled students\n    Part 8B : Disabled students by birth year\n    Part 9 : Student by race and religion\n    Part 10A : Students who obtained grade 5 scholarship grants\n    Part 10B : Students in grade 6\n    Part 11 : Examination Reults ( Year 2007 )\n                     - Grade 5\n                     - G. C. E. (O\/L)\n                     - G. C. E. (A\/L)\n      Part 12 : Health and Nutrition programmes in the school\n      Part 13 : Physical resources\n                       - Toilet facilities\n                       - Science Laboratories ( Grade 6-11 )\n                       - Science Laboratories ( A\/L Students )\n                       - Library\n                       - Resources of the Library and the Educational Resources Centre \n                       - School Land\n                       - Computer in the Scshool\n        Part 14 : Allccations for Qualitative Improvents in 2007 \n        Part 15 : Transfered, Resigned and Retired Teachers in 2007\n        Part 16 : Non Academic Staff Members Details\n         \n         Deatils of Teachers","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.","cleaning_operations":"Manual data editing and coding is done by the zonal offices.","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 Government Schools 2008, Version 1.0 of the public use dataset. ( October 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"}