Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER)/Gross
Enrollment Index (GEI)
It is
a statistical measure used in the education sector
and by the UN in its Education Index to
determine the number of students enrolled in school at several different grade
levels (like elementary, middle school and high school), and use it to show the
ratio of the number of students who live in that country to those who qualify
for the particular grade level.
} An elementary formula used by most
countries to calculate the Gross Enrollment Ratio is that, the country divides
the number of individuals who are actually enrolled in schools by the number of
children who are of the corresponding school enrollment age.
Purpose of GER
} Gross Enrolment Ratio is widely used
to show the general level of participation in a given level of education.
} It indicates the capacity of the education
system to enrol students of a particular age-group.
} It is used as a substitute indicator
to net enrolment ratio (NER) when data on enrolment by single years of age are
not available.
} Furthermore, it can also be a
complementary indicator to NER by indicating the extent of over-aged and
under-aged enrolment.
Calculation method:
Divide
the number of pupils enrolled in a given level of education regardless of age
by the population of the age-group which officially corresponds to the given
level of education, and multiply the result by 100.
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