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What’s New on the

EdStats website?

What’s New?

The World Bank Education Statistics Newsletter

The

Newsletter

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Contents

Volume V, Issue 5 April 2012

Data Quality Benchmarking Reports Released for

6 Countries

The Education Management Information System (EMIS) team of

the World Bank’s Systems Approach for Better Education Re-

sults (SABER) initiative has just released its first set of EMIS

benchmarking reports. The reports analyze the EMIS systems in

Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Kitts &

Nevis, and St. Vincent & the Grenadines. Also, a regional report

for the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) was

released.

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Visualizing and Map-

ping Education Data

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Selecting Countries,

Regions and Indica-

tors; Mapping Data

Charts in EdStats

StatPlanet

www.worldbank.org/education/edstats/

EdStats Query Updated with New 2010 UIS Data

and over 80 New Indicators

The EdStats Query has been updated with the most recent data

released by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). The data-

set includes new statistics for the school year ending in 2010, as

well as updated education finance indicators. 88 new education

indicators were also added to the EdStats Query with this up-

date.

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The EdStats StatPlanet data visualization tool allows users to explore country or region performance

on a variety of key education indicators through interactive, animated world/regional maps, charts, and

tables. This newsletter will provide a basic guide to using EdStats StatPlanet to create customized

maps and visualize EdStats education data. More detailed StatPlanet instructions can be found on the

StatSilk Resources page.

The EdStats StatPlanet interface is organized into different windows:

Visualizing and Mapping Education Data

Graph Window

Country/Region

Selection Window

Indicator Selection Window

Map Legend

Time Slider

Customization Options, Exporting, Data Tables

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Selecting Countries and Regions. Click on countries in the Country/Region Selection Window or in

the map to highlight the countries in the Graph Window. Click again on the country/region to deselect

it or deselect all countries by clicking on the icon. By selecting a Region from the dropdown

menu in the Country/Region Selection Window, the default world map will focus in on the specified

region (see Sub-Saharan Africa example below). The chart will also automatically focus on the coun-

tries of the selected region. The icon allows users to create a custom region composed of the

selected countries.

Selecting Indicators. Users can select indicators

from either the Indicator Selection Window or the

Graph Window. Clicking on the icon in the

Graph Window will open a new window to search for

keywords in an indicator name. View indicators by

topics like access, equity, and expenditure by clicking

on the indicator name in the Graph Window. Mouse

over a topic to reveal the indicators within the topic.

Clicking on one indicator will move all the other indicators in the topic into the Indicator Selection Win-

dow on the left for faster selection of similar indicators.

Maps in StatPlanet. Maps in StatPlanet are

dynamic: By clicking the play button to the right

of the Time Slider, users can watch the data

transition over time in the map. Also, users can

drag the slider to the left or right to view a

static map of the data in one year. Static maps

can be exported as .jpg or .png files through

the export button on the bottom left.

CUSTOMIZING MAPS. StatPlanet maps are

fully customizable. The map background, bor-

ders, font, and legend are customizable

through the options icon on the bottom

left. Click on color boxes in the legend to cus-

tomize the legend colors. To adjust the data

range of the map legend, click on the top or

bottom value and adjust the range in the

popup window.

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Charts in EdStats StatPlanet

EdStats StatPlanet can visualize data in four types of charts: connected line, horizontal bar, vertical

bar, and scatterplot. To select a chart type, click on one of the chart icons on the top left of the Graph

Window. The icon for the selected chart type will be highlighted in yellow (as in the examples below).

Chart data can also be viewed in a table and exported through the icon.