.png "Philippines Ratio of girls to boys in primary and secondary education (%)")
| Data: | Ratio of girls to boys in primary and secondary education (%) | ||||||||
| Year: | 1960 - 2013 | ||||||||
| Country: | Philippines | ||||||||
| Source: | World Bank (the information in this section is direct quotation from World Bank development data) | ||||||||
| Series Code: | SE.ENR.PRSC.FM.ZS | ||||||||
| Topic: | Education: Participation | ||||||||
| Short Definition: | 0 | ||||||||
| Long Definition: | Ratio of girls to boys in primary and secondary education is the percentage of girls to boys enrolled at primary and secondary levels in public and private schools. | ||||||||
| Unit of Measurement: | 0 | ||||||||
| Periodicity: | Annual | ||||||||
| Base Period: | 0 | ||||||||
| Reference Period: | 0 | ||||||||
| Aggregation method: | Weighted average | ||||||||
| Limitations and exceptions: | The ratio of female to male enrollments in primary and secondary education provides an imperfect measure of the relative accessibility of schooling for girls. An improved ratio doesn't necessarily reflect desirable outcomes of the underlying indicators. The level and trend of gross enrollment ratio also need to be analyzed. | ||||||||
| Notes from original source: | 0 | ||||||||
| General Comments: | 0 | ||||||||
| Original Source: | United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Institute for Statistics. | ||||||||
| Statistical concept and methodology: | The ratio
of girls to boys gross enrollment ratio in primary and secondary school
indicates parity between girls and boys. A ratio less than 100 percent
suggests girls are more disadvantaged than boys in learning opportunities and
a ratio greater than 100 percent suggests the other way around. It is calculated by dividing female gross enrollment ratio in primary and secondary education by male gross enrollment ratio in primary and secondary education and multiplying the result by 100. Aggregate data are estimates by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Institute for Statistics (UIS). Data on education are collected by the UIS from official responses to its annual education survey. All the data published by the UIS are mapped to the International Standard Classification of Education 1997 (ISCED97). This classification system ensures the comparability of education programs at the international level. UNESCO developed the ISCED to facilitate comparisons of education statistics and indicators of different countries on the basis of uniform and internationally agreed definitions. First developed in the 1970s, the current version was formally adopted in November 1997. The reference years reflect the school year for which the data are presented. In some countries the school year spans two calendar years (for example, from September 2010 to June 2011); in these cases the reference year refers to the year in which the school year ended (2011 in the example). |
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| Development relevance: | Eliminating gender disparities in education would help increase the status and capabilities of women. This indicator is a key measure to monitor whether a country is on track to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of promoting gender equality and empowering women by 2015. | ||||||||
