2. EFAInfo Overview
Developed to support the EFA Mid-Decade Assessment. Reflects in its structure the set of MDA indicators – both core and policy/system indicators Represents strong and positive collaboration between agencies – particularly UNESCO and UNICEF Prepared for CDROM release in October 2008 and online from UNICEF EAPRO from January 2009.

3. Objectives at 2 levels Country-level
Provide a tool and template for national customization and implementation to compile, monitor, present and analyze education data
National activities underway with support from UNICEF EAPRO in:
Indonesia
Mongolia
Papua New Guinea
Vanuatu
Further country activities are expected through support from national DevInfo taskforce and UNICEF Country Offices

4. Objectives at 2 levels Regional
Develop a regional database as record of the Asia and Pacific EFA MDA integrated with education-related, national and sub-national data. Coverage includes:
Central Asia
South Asia
East Asia
South-East Asia
Pacific
ASPBAE has adopted the tool for use with regional and national EdWatch across the region.

5. 440,000 data points from 210 sources
Database Contents
National Education data
National EFA Mid-Decade Assessment Data (labeled as ‘provisional’)
Education Statistics reports
International data
EFA Global Monitoring Report (UNESCO)
State of the World’s Children Report (UNICEF)
GenderInfo (UNSD)
Millennium Development Goals (UNDP)
Household survey data
Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) – South, East and Central Asia
Living standards survey (LLSMS)
Demographic and Health Survey (DHS)
Special studies
Literacy, Disabilities, Caste and Ethnicity, Economic surveys
440,000 data points from 210 sources

6. Organization – by Goal / Sector

7. Organization – by Area

8. Organization – by Source

9. Indicator Metadata

10. A commitment and an opportunity in Asia and the Pacific
EFAInfo Data Analysis
Graphs, tables and maps presented here were prepared with data from the EFAInfo 1.2.
Compiled data includes national and sub-national data sets prepared for the EFA Mid-Decade Assessment, household survey data and internationally-comparable data from the EFA GMR and SOWC 2008

11. Source: EFA GMR 2008

12. Source: EFA GMR 2008

13. Source: Mongolia MICS, 2005

14. Source: Papua New Guinea, School Census, 2007

15. Source: Papua New Guinea, School Census, 2007

16. Source: EFA GMR 2008

17. Source: Myanmar provisional EFA MDA dataset

18. Viet Nam
Net attendance ratio of female children of secondary school age attending secondary or higher school
Source: Viet Nam MICS Report

19. Household Surveys:
Economic status has great impact on education attainment, but other factors contribute to depth of disparities
Education Attainment by wealth
Source: National DHS/TLSS/MICS Reports

20. Household Surveys:
The urban/rural divide affects boys and girls participation and attainment of education differently across the region.
Education Attainment by sex and location (urban/rural)
Source: National DHS/MICS Reports

21. MICS3:
Economic Security impacts School Attendance for both boys and girls
Unlike Primary Education, where school attendance is fairly consistent across wealth quintile, Secondary School participation increases consistently with wealth.
Source: National MICS Reports

22. A Common Database System features
Contains EFA MDA indicators, ready for customization, data entry and use
Compiles all relevant data in one system, allowing for multiple sources of data
Facilitates easy retrieval
of data
Provides for analysis of
trends over time
Integrates powerful presentation tools (table, graph, map)
The functions of this Database Management System are derived from the objectives of those who conceived this software:
All data available in a given country compiled in one system only: DevInfo provides a database solution for dissemination of statistics on one common platform. Often in a country, data is scattered among different institutions using different software and sometimes with different figures for a same indicator. In other words, the idea is not to re-invent the wheel but just to put all existing data together and to have this data speak the same language for easier comparison/linkage.
DevInfo still supports multiple data sources which means that the user has the opportunity to compare different figures for a same indicator coming from various sources and choose among these sources based on information provided in information sheets.
Easy retrieval of data: The Wizards integrated in the system help Users to quickly produce tables, graphs and maps. This way, users would spend less time retrieving data and preparing presentations and have more time to actually analyze the data and disseminate it through reports and presentations.
Because the same system compiles all the data of a country or a region, this facilitates - the analysis of trends (data values over a number of years), the analysis of data relationships (you can put together indicators from different sectors), and, it also allows analysis at national and sub-national level (since the system supports data at sub-national level - up to 8 sub-national levels). It also allows cross-country analysis.
So this Database Management System overall improves the quality of analysis of socio-economic indicators. This helps decision-making in terms of planning, monitoring and evaluation. This tool allows to have a better situation analysis according to which decision-makers will opt for this or that action to improve the development situation of the country. They will also be able to focus on priority areas for intervention.
A Common Database System features

23. A Common Database System functions
Fully customizable, to fit the country context and the needs (national plans, goals, indicators, etc)
National Integration
Allows for linkages into larger existing national development database
Cambodia
Nepal
Fiji
China
A Common Database System functions

24. Follow up & Extension
Datasets welcome – agencies are welcome to submit data for compilation in final release of EFAInfo. Deadline: 30 September 2008
Orientation and training available – contact UNICEF EAPRO to organize a session

25. EFAInfo Endnotes:
Please note that data sourced from national data sets prepared for the EFA Mid-Decade Assessment remains provisional pending endorsement from national authorities and thus should not be quoted or referenced until further notice.