Teacher counts cover educators actively guiding pupils in lower secondary schools, excluding non-teaching personnel. Data is compiled by the Global Partnership for Education from national sources, with country-specific definitions for roles and methods. The temporal coverage and total number of country records are not specified.
Use Cases
- Analyze national teacher workforce size relative to student population using country-reported teacher counts.
- Compare country-specific definitions of 'teacher' and 'lower secondary education' to assess cross-national data harmonization.
- Model trends in educator supply over time if temporal data is available in the country-level records.
- Correlate teacher counts with national education spending or development indicators.
Strengths
- Data is sourced directly from national authorities, providing official counts.
- Focuses on personnel with active teaching duties, offering a clear operational definition.
Limitations
- Country-specific definitions create challenges for direct cross-country comparison.
- The sample size in terms of number of countries and years covered is unknown.
- Lack of column details prevents assessment of accompanying demographic or qualification data.
Provenance
- Source
- Global Partnership for Education, aggregating national sources.
- Collection Method
- Countries report figures based on their own definitions and collection methods.
- Time Range
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- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- National coverage, specific countries unknown.