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White, Howard – Social Indicators Research, 2005
This paper shows how household data collected for the Ghana Living Standards Survey can be used to calculate national trends in educational performance (enrollment, completion rates and literacy). The resulting enrollment figures are shown to be more reliable than the rather different picture given by official statistics. In addition, a short…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Living Standards, Low Income Groups, Children