Manuals, Sources and Methods

Publications & Documents

Education at a Glance: OECD Indictators - 2003: Coding of Missing Data (UOE source)

26-Mar-2004

The correct use of the missing codes is an essential condition to ensure the integrity of the data. Different reasons why there are no data in a particular instance need to be distinguished in the statistical ...

Completing the Foundation for Lifelong Learning - An OECD Survey of Upper Secondary Schools: Survey Operations Manual

13-Feb-2004

Short-Term Economic Statistics in China: Sources and Methods

15-Aug-2003

This Statistics Directorate and Centre for Co-operation with Non-Members Working Paper N. 6 - 2003/3 contains a detailed description of the methodology used in the compilation of some key short-term economic ...

An Update of the OECD Composite Leading Indicators - December 2002

06-Dec-2002

The update outlined in this document ensures that the CLI calculation is based on more up-to- date chronologies of turning points. As a result, the trend estimation, which is a crucial element of the OECD methodology, will be strongly improved.

School Sampling: Preparation Manual - PISA 2003 Main Study, Version One: June 2002

19-Nov-2002

PISA is a survey of 15-year-old students in each participating country. To provide valid estimates of student achievement and characteristics, the sample of students must be selected using established ...

Teachers and the Curriculum

15-Nov-2002

This manual provides data collection instructions on annual instruction time, teachers' statutory salary and incentive system, teachers' working conditions and pre-service training requirements.

PISA 2000 Technical Report

15-Nov-2002

The PISA Technical Report describes methodologies, along with other features that have enabled the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) to provide high quality data to support policy formation and review.

UOE Data Collection - 2002 Data Collection on Education Systems: Definitions, Explanations and Instructions

15-Nov-2002

The objective of the UIS/OECD/EUROSTAT data collection on education statistics is to provide internationally comparable data on key aspects of education systems, specifically on the articipation and completion ...

CLassifying Educational Programmes

15-Nov-2002

Education systems vary widely between countries, so how can we compare them? The International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) is an instrument designed to transform data collected under different ...

Manual for the PISA 2000 Database

15-Nov-2002

This manual describes the international database of the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2000. The database comprises data collected in 2000 in 32 countries and processed in the ...