This report presents a comprehensive strategy and framework to improve the quality of data needed to implement and monitor progress towards the SDG 4–Education 2030 Agenda. It showcases a concrete set of tools designed to help countries strengthen each stage of their national education statistical systems – from diagnostic tools to evaluate data availability and quality to the frameworks and guidelines needed to initiate a national strategy for the development of education statistics that directly responds to policy priorities. The report also addresses the wider statistical capacity-development issues facing countries, donors and partners. Above all, the UIS shows the way forward to building better statistical systems by providing national stakeholders with the tools and strategies they need to produce high-quality education data and achieve their development goals.
