Percentage of people without school education
Dimension: Vulnerability
Area: Socioeconomic
Category: Education
Definition: This indicator defines people without school education as those in a territory that didn’t complete an educational program. Following this criteria, the measurement is focused more on the lack of completion of academic programs rather than illiteracy.
- Unit of measure: People who never attended school or didn't end a school program.
- Formula:
Numerator: # of people who never attended school.
Denominator: Total population that lives in the territory.
Data sources:
- National census
- Official population projections
- Data from national education office
Comments and limitations: An alternative to this indicator is the illiteracy rate, which measures the percentage of people in a territory that doesn’t know how to read and write. The reason to not use that indicator is that in the framework is considered a vulnerability to having illiterate people in a territory and having a low completion rate.