Argentina - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Argentina was 288,776 as of 2008. As the graph below shows, over the past 38 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 313,764 in 1996 and a minimum value of 175,929 in 1970.

Definition: Primary education teachers includes full-time and part-time teachers.

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

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Year Value
1970 175,929
1971 181,230
1972 184,508
1973 183,796
1974 185,566
1975 195,997
1976 199,256
1977 199,384
1979 206,275
1980 193,640
1981 200,388
1982 206,535
1984 218,520
1985 229,715
1986 238,818
1987 252,259
1988 259,579
1994 295,488
1996 313,764
1997 309,162
1998 234,143
1999 221,495
2000 244,412
2001 274,580
2002 283,403
2004 274,232
2005 279,349
2006 286,782
2007 302,654
2008 288,776

Development Relevance: Women teachers are important as they serve as role models to girls and help to attract and retain girls in school.

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: Teachers refer to persons employed full-time or part-time in an official capacity to guide and direct the learning experience of pupils and students, irrespective of their qualifications or the delivery mechanism, i.e. face-to-face and/or at a distance. This definition excludes educational personnel who have no active teaching duties (e.g. headmasters, headmistresses or principals who do not teach) or who work occasionally or in a voluntary capacity in educational institutions. 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: Sum

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Education Indicators

Sub-Topic: Inputs