(1) Operations Evaluation Department, World Bank, 1818 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20433, USA
Abstract:
This paper shows how household data collected for the Ghana Living Standards Survey can be used to calculate national trends
in educational performance (enrolment, completion rates and literacy). The resulting enrolment figures are shown to be more
reliable than the rather different picture given by offcial statistics. In addition, a short English test conducted alongside
the household survey in 1988 and repeated in 2003 gives a direct measure of changes in literacy.