Ireland - Expenditure on secondary education (% of government expenditure on education)

Expenditure on secondary education (% of government expenditure on education) in Ireland was 35.55 as of 2016. Its highest value over the past 45 years was 43.90 in 1971, while its lowest value was 33.30 in 2015.

Definition: Expenditure on secondary education is expressed as a percentage of total general government expenditure on education. General government usually refers to local, regional and central governments.

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/)

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Year Value
1971 43.90
1972 41.99
1973 41.94
1974 41.51
1976 36.68
1977 38.14
1978 40.89
1979 41.12
1980 41.31
1981 41.38
1982 42.14
1983 41.44
1984 41.13
1985 40.32
1986 40.17
1987 40.21
1988 40.61
1989 40.92
1990 39.56
1991 39.78
1992 38.79
1993 40.09
1994 41.04
1995 41.60
1996 40.90
1998 37.56
1999 36.54
2000 34.13
2001 34.41
2002 34.40
2003 35.31
2004 35.32
2005 34.83
2006 34.79
2007 34.34
2008 34.86
2009 33.65
2010 33.81
2011 34.02
2012 33.43
2013 33.48
2014 33.35
2015 33.30
2016 35.55

Development Relevance: The share of government expenditure for a specific education level allows an assessment of the priority a government assigns to a level of education relative to other levels. Enrolment and the relative costs per student between different levels of education should be also taken into account.

Limitations and Exceptions: Data disaggregated by level of education are estimates in some instances. It is often difficult to separate lower from upper secondary education expenditure, or pre-primary from primary.

Other Notes: Data retrieved via API in March 2019. For detailed information on the observation level (e.g. National Estimation, UIS Estimation, or Category not applicable), please visit UIS.Stat (http://data.uis.unesco.org/).

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The share of expenditure on secondary education to total government expenditure on education is calculated by dividing government expenditure on secondary education by total government expenditure on education (all levels combined), and multiplying by 100. Aggregate data are based on World Bank estimates. Data on education are collected by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics from official responses to its annual education survey. All the data are mapped to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) to ensure the comparability of education programs at the international level. The current version was formally adopted by UNESCO Member States in 2011. The reference years reflect the school year for which the data are presented. In some countries the school year spans two calendar years (for example, from September 2010 to June 2011); in these cases the reference year refers to the year in which the school year ended (2011 in the example).

Aggregation method: Median

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Education Indicators

Sub-Topic: Inputs