Australia - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Australia was 105,469 as of 1999. As the graph below shows, over the past 28 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 105,469 in 1999 and a minimum value of 67,114 in 1971.

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
1971 67,114
1972 69,496
1973 70,911
1974 73,745
1975 78,390
1976 81,747
1977 85,855
1978 87,878
1979 90,668
1981 91,386
1984 102,853
1986 90,685
1987 91,252
1988 91,979
1989 92,820
1991 96,779
1992 97,955
1993 98,526
1995 101,035
1996 102,267
1997 103,774
1998 104,603
1999 105,469

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