Ireland - Secondary education, teachers

The value for Secondary education, teachers in Ireland was 27,273 as of 1997. As the graph below shows, over the past 23 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 27,273 in 1997 and a minimum value of 18,913 in 1976.

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

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

See also:

Year Value
1974 20,760
1975 20,856
1976 18,913
1977 19,146
1978 19,260
1979 19,430
1980 19,705
1981 19,878
1982 20,402
1983 21,060
1984 20,501
1985 20,927
1986 20,611
1987 20,690
1988 20,475
1989 20,094
1990 20,123
1991 20,830
1992 21,371
1993 22,960
1994 25,617
1995 26,317
1996 26,523
1997 27,273

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