{"doc_desc":{"title":"Census of Private Schools - 2007","idno":"DDI-LKA-MOE-CPS-2007-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":"2008-10-29","version_statement":{"version":"Version 1.0 ( October 2008 )."}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"LKA-MOE-CPS-2007-v1.0","title":"Census of Private Schools - 2007","alt_title":"CPS-2007"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Statistics Division, Ministry of Education","affiliation":"Government of Sri Lanka"}],"oth_id":[{"name":"Department of Census and Statistics","affiliation":"","email":"","role":"Data Processing"}],"production_statement":{"copyright":"(C) 2007, 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_info":"The Census of Private Schools  has been conducted, since 1996. This  census   is  the   the  twelfth one in a series of censuses  conducted  annually.  This census provides valuable information about private schools 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    - Details about the teachers"},"version_statement":{"version":"v1.0: Full edited dataset, original version  for internal  DPD use.","version_date":"2008-10-29","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 private 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    - Physical facilities","coll_dates":[{"start":"2007-06-01","end":"2007-06-01","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"Sri Lanka","abbreviation":"LKA"}],"geog_coverage":"National Coverage - Private Schools","analysis_unit":"School\nStudent\nTeacher","universe":"All Private Schools","data_kind":"Census\/enumeration data [cen]","notes":"The scope of the Private School Census - 2007 includes:\n\n    Part 1 : Identification Information\n    Part 2 : Students by medium\n    Part 3 : Students by birth year\n    Part 4 : Student by race and religion\n    Part 5 : Students by grade according to the subjects study ( Religion, Technical subjects and Easthetic )\n                :  Data not collected for this section\n    Part 6A : Disabled students\n    Part 6B : Disabled students by birth year\n    Part 7   : Grade 1 admissions\n    Part 8   : Examination Results ( GCE O\/L & GCE A\/L )\n    Part 9   : Physical resources\n                       - Science Laboratories ( Grade 6-11 )\n                       - Science Laboratories ( A\/L Students )\n                       - Library\n                       - Computer Facilities\n  \n         Deatils of Teachers"},"method":{"data_collection":{"coll_mode":["Mail Questionnaire [mail]"],"research_instrument":"The schedule  of the Private School Census - 2007 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 : Student by race and religion\n    Part 5 : Students by grade according to the subjects study ( Religion, Technical subjects and Easthetic )\n                :  Data not collected for this section\n    Part 6A : Disabled students\n    Part 6B : Disabled students by birth year\n    Part 7   : Grade 1 admissions\n    Part 8   : Examination Results ( GCE O\/L & GCE A\/L )\n    Part 9   : Physical resources\n                       - Science Laboratories ( Grade 6-11 )\n                       - Science Laboratories ( A\/L Students )\n                       - Library\n                       - Computer Facilities\n  \n         Deatils of Teachers","coll_situation":"The questionnaires are posted to the Principals of the private colleges.\nThe Principals are responsible for filling of the questionnaire and posted back  to the Ministry of Education\nData enntry is done by the Statistical unit of the Ministry","cleaning_operations":"Manual data editing and coding is done by the statistical unit of the Ministry of Education.","method_notes":"Data processing included the following steps. \n\n     1.  Data entry is done  by Statistical Branch of the MOE.\n     2.  Merge the data  entry files \n     3.. Produce final tables ."}},"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":"\"Ministry of Education - Census of Private Schools 2007, Version 1.0 of the public use dataset. ( October  2008 )\"","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"}