Education

The United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and Pacific (UNSIAP), together with United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and Statistics Korea (KOSTAT) will organize a regional training on education data capacity building from 15 to 19 May 2023, in Daejeon, Republic of Korea. The program will focus on understanding education indicators based on household survey data, as well as administrative sources with a focus on SDG4 and other relevant SDG targets related to education such as child labour.

The course is aimed at strengthening the technical capacity of entities of national statistical systems to produce a set of education-related statistics, including indicators, to formulate, implement and evaluate esucation policy and track progress towards the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4). 

The program will focus on the analysis of data coming from MICS surveys with the objective of calculating education indicators, particularly those relevant for SDG4. In addition to the training, the workshop will also serve as an opportunity for participating countries to share their experiences in terms of MICS data use.