{"doc_desc":{"title":"Census of Government Schools - 1999","idno":"DDI-LKA-DCS-MOE-1999-v1.0","producers":[{"name":"Department of Census and Statistics","abbreviation":"DCS","affiliation":"Ministry of Finance and Planning","role":"Documentation"},{"name":"Ministry of Education","abbreviation":"MOE","affiliation":"Government of Sri Lanka","role":"Data Collection"}],"prod_date":"2009-05-19","version_statement":{"version":"Version 1.0 ( May 2009 )."}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"LKA-MOE-CGS-1999-v1.0","title":"Census of  Government Schools - 1999","alt_title":"CGS-1999"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Statistics Division, Minstry of Education","affiliation":""}],"production_statement":{"copyright":"(C) 1999, Ministry of Education"},"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"Statistics Division","affiliation":"Ministry of Education","email":"mail.moe.gov.lk","uri":"www.moe.gov.lk"}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Administrative Records, Education (ad\/edu]","series_info":"The Census of Schools  has been conducted, since 1960. This  census   is  the  forty third one in a series of censuses  conducted  annually.  This census provides valuable information about goverment school and teachers to policy makers, planners and researchers.. \n\nThe questionnaire is filled by Principals of the schools  and it contains following parts.\n\n    - Identification information about the school\n    - Details about the school children\n    - Details about the disabled students\n    - Physical facilities\n    - Non academic staff\n    - Details about the teachers"},"version_statement":{"version":"v1.0: Full edited dataset, original version  for internal  use of the Minitry of Education.","version_date":"2009-05-19"},"study_info":{"topics":[{"topic":"EDUCATION [6]","vocab":"CESSDA","uri":"http:\/\/www.nesstar.org\/rdf\/common"}],"abstract":"The Ministry of Education has conducted an uninterrupted series of annual school census for well over four decades.\nThe main objective of the census is to collect following information\n    - Information about the school\n    - Students\n    - Teachers\n    - Non-academic staff\n    - Physical facilities","coll_dates":[{"start":"1999-06-01","end":"1999-06-01","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"Sri Lanka","abbreviation":""}],"geog_coverage":"National Coverage - Government Schools","analysis_unit":"School\nStudent\nTeacher","universe":"All Government Schools","data_kind":"Census\/enumeration data [cen]","notes":"The scope of the School Census - 1999 includes:\n\n    Part 1 : Identification Information\n    Part 2 : Students in School ( on 1999 June 1st )\n    Part 3a : Students by birth year and the grade\n    Part 3a : Students in special educational unit by sex\n    Part 4 : Pre school students out of the students who entered grade 1 by sex \n    Part 5 : Students who failed and left out from the school.\n    Part 6 : Teachers who retired from the service during 01.01.1998 to 31.12.1998\n    Part 7 : Non Academic Staff Members Details\n    Part 8_1 : Details about buildings\n    Part 8_2 : Details about laboratories\n    Part 8_3 : Details about health facilities\n    Part 8_4 : Details about other facilities\n   \n                      Details of Teachers"},"method":{"data_collection":{"coll_mode":["Mail Questionnaire [mail]"],"coll_situation":"The questionnaires are handed over to the Divisional Directors.\nDivisional Directors distributed the questionnaires to the schools in their divisions\nDivisional Director collects the filled questionnaires and handed over to the Zonal office.\nData enntry is done by the Zonal office and data file is mailed to the Statistical Branch of Ministry of Education.","method_notes":"Data processing included the following steps. \n\n     1.  Accepting the data files from the zonal offices through e-mail  by Statistical Branch of the MOE.\n     2.  Run edit program.\n     3.  Produce error report and return to the Zonal office\n     4.  Correction of errors on the report by the Zonal Office\n     5.  Re-run the edit program and repeat the error correction procedure\n     6.  Merge the data files \n     7..  Produce final tables on clean data ."}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"conf_dec":[{"txt":"The degree of confidentiality of this microdata set is determined by the Access Authority. Please refer to the Access Authority for further details.","required":"yes","form_no":"","uri":""}],"contact":[{"name":"Additional Secretary Planning","affiliation":"Ministry of Education","email":"mail.moe.gov.lk","uri":"www.moe.gov.lk"}],"cit_req":"\"Department of Census and Statistics, Census of Schools 1999 [CGS-1999], Version 1.0 of the public use dataset. (May 2009 )\"","conditions":"Please contact the Access Authority for Access Terms and Conditions.","disclaimer":"The Department of Census and Statistics and the Ministry of Education will bear no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the secondary use of the data."}}},"schematype":"survey"}