Whether the Institute's 2002 and 2024 primary-teacher counts (and the trained share of them) measure the same population, given that Syria's basic-education cycles were reorganised after 2014 and the Institute's primary duration was four years from 2003 to 2013
Claim ID
TEACH-002
Exact or summary claim
Whether the Institute's 2002 and 2024 primary-teacher counts (and the trained share of them) measure the same population, given that Syria's basic-education cycles were reorganised after 2014 and the Institute's primary duration was four years from 2003 to 2013
Destination
Chapter 7 l.105 (v54), held as a question; article 7
Status
SPECIALIST_REVIEW
Source
SRC-305; SRC-786 (SE.PRM.DURS); SRC-783 (sheet 'CH 11', the cycle note); World Bank metadata on the ISCED 2011 mapping recorded at SRC-783
Source type
International statistical series and national statistical abstracts
Published
2016 to 2026
Accessed
2026-10-18
Measure and scope
ISCED level 1 mapping of Syrian basic education across 2002, 2003 to 2013 and 2014 on; the teacher-count definitions each source uses; the national minimum training requirement behind SE.PRM.TCAQ.ZS
Known conflict
Durations say six grades in both 2002 and 2024, which supports comparability; the cycle reorganisation and the unexplained 12.4 per cent gap with the national count for 2002 leave it open
Specialist
Education statistician familiar with UIS questionnaire A and Syrian Ministry of Education data
Downstream
Chapter 7 l.101 and l.105; CH07-TRAINED-SHARE; article 7
Action
Discuss as a question only; the chapter puts it and does not answer it. Not settled until a specialist reads the UIS metadata for Syria and the ministry's submission.