Country: Indonesia
Title: Pengembangan Statistik Pendidikan.
Pengumpulan Data Statistik Persekolahan,
Perguruan Tinggi, Pendidikan Luar Sekolah Pemuda
dan Olahraga.
Translated title: Development of Educational Statistics.
Project Leader(s): Saleh Bachtiar.
Institution: Center for Informatics, Office of Educational and
Cultural Research and Development, Ministry of
Education and Culture.
Address: Jl. Jendral Sudirman, Senayan PO. Box 297 Kby.
Town/City: Jakarta.
State: DKI Jakarta. Country: Indonesia.
Telephone: 581 667. - Facsimile: 62-21-586366.
Abstract: This year, Center for Informatics has already
initiated computerization of the data, initially
with 1985-1986 school year statistics on the IBM
System 36 which will eventually become accessible
by information users within and outside of the
Ministry. Although the chance of recovering of
the past data is doubtful at this moment, the
mechanism and management scheme for reserving
data has to be established and implemented.
Objectives: As mentioned earlier, the annual statistical data
entail an enormous latent potentiality for
generating valuable information to the education
system for policy-makers, planners and other
related personnel. Therefore improving the data
handlings of the Annual Statistical Data,
especially in the areas of data quality, for
example data validity, data availability and
accessibility, data timeliness and the
standardization of data definition, and
constructing an optimal data flow would make a
significant impact in improving information
utility in the Ministry. This is a preferred
starting point with visible and solid outcomes.
Methodology: 1. Review the Anual Statistical Forms (Primary,
Secondary, Higher Education, Nonformal, Out of
School and Sports, and Culture) in review of
their data utility and relevancy; 2. Review the
associated data collection flows as appropriate;
and 3. Implement new data collection methods and
instruments.
Background: 1. Every year, Center for Informatics, in
collaboration with the Director Generals'
offices, collects valuable education statistical
data in the five major sub-sectoral areas;
namely, primary education; secondary education;
higher education; nonformal education, youth and
sports; and cultural activities. 2. Usually these
data are annualy collected (cultural data are
biannually collected) using respective
questionnaires through local offices including
Kanwil, Kandep and Kancam offices. Depending
among the areas of data, the route of data flow
among the offices becomes slightly different. For
example, while the primary school data collection
goes through the Kecamatan Office, the secondary
school data collection goes through the Kanwil
and Kabupaten levels. 3. The entire data
collection excercise has been conducted in a
centralized manner and local offices have just
been conducts of the data flow. 4. The Annual
Statistics data are without doubt the most
important data accumulations for educational
information. They entail most of the basic data
required to analyse and assess the national
system of education in a broad spectrum. 5.
However, these annual statistical data have never
been fully exploited to their potential
usefulness, for several reasons. First of all the
data have seldom become available in a timely
manner. Secondly, in certain of the data areas,
the return or response rate is so poor that the
data collected are not able to represent the data
sources per se. Thirdly, because of ambiguous
definition or lack of standardization of data,
from time to time there is no consistency or
uniformity of data upon which the data are to be
analysed and transformed into information.
Fourthly, once the data are compiled to produce
the Annual Statistics, the valuable commodity is
not properly managed, or taken care of, and
therefore lost. Most of the data are not
available at the national level; and if
available, they are all kept in all different
media without much sense of structuring or any
associated management scheme. Reconstructing
historical data back ten years will requires much
work at the provincial and Kabupaten levels.
Fifthly, the data are used to produce a large
number of statistical reports. How and what is
the degree of usage of those reports in real
terms by information users, particularly by those
policy-makers and analysts, planners, and other
key administrators and educators.
Expected Outcomes: Data Collection Plan.
Results to Date: Data Collection Plan.
Recommendations: Annual Statistics will become more reliable and
more readily available to the Ministry's
information clientele on a timely basis.
Commencement Date: April 1985. Duration: 1 year.
Completion Date: March 1986.
Descriptors: Management information systems; Educational
statistics
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