One of the most common superstitions among our politicians is to believe that when something is written or guaranteed by law, all work is already done. More than once, saying some data that contradicted one of our heroes, I let loose this "but if that is guaranteed by law! "or something similar. The data did not matter, of course, especially if no interest at that time.
This mindset, sometimes, just curious about things like this that I present here. We all know that Logse extended compulsory education until the student turns 16. Fewer know that so did the General Education Act of 1970 (LGE), but the fact is that, not being a common learning and that there was no real political commitment, regulations developed this point and providing for penalties, for example, to get it, because as much as did that Act, and twenty years later, went to school 92% of the population of that age.
Anyway, not bad for the figures that it was based, as in this paragraph:
"During 1986-87 it has reached full enrollment of children aged 5 to 13 years, while in 1967 was still not in school 46% of the population of the former and 36% of the latter. Of every one hundred youth from 14 years, only 39 possessed a school place in 67, while during 1986-87, had 92. Among young people aged 15 years, the percentage rose from 25% to 78%, while the case of 16 (16% in 1967 versus 60% in 1986) and 17 (12% vs. 53%) progress has been spectacular. "[White Paper on Education System Reform, Ministry of Education and Science, 1989, pg. 32].
said that sometimes you encounter strange things. I check very often statistics of Ministry of Education , whether for business or pleasure (each is a slave to his vices), and a few months ago I found an odd thing: the series of the net schooling at age 15 appeared to me filled with "hundreds" from 2000. I it was weird because I look at from time to time and remember that this series had other data. As one is already old dog, keep soil from time to time education statistics on my computer (not just the Ministry), I went to my last "backup" and, indeed, the data were missing. Also disappeared shortly after the "hundreds" and stood as is now (Table 6), empty cells and a brief note saying:
"(1) From this course there is the widespread deployment of compulsory schooling at this age. "
course, this is not a matter of statistics Ministry, has more pint of political order and, although I have my suspicions, I do not know where to split the order. Since then, someone who does not like his beloved law go through a site and the reality on the other.
At this point I realized that I have not explained how goes it in the net enrollment rate at a given age. There are two enrollment rate, the gross and net. The gross rate is the percentage of students in the class corresponding to a theoretical age of the inhabitants of that age. The net rate is the percentage of students enrolled at an age (whether the course that is) on the people of that age. The gross rate tells us how many people are enrolled in a course on the total population, while the net talks about the number of students of a given age cohort who continue in education.
Therefore, if the Ministry says that 100% of 15 year olds are in school is saying that all students of that age are in the education system. All. There absenteeism, and there are groups where the girls at 12 years away from school (sometimes for marriage), there are places (beach and rural) where even the kids leave school to "lend a hand at home" ( from somewhere I have news that this is done with the consent of parents, schools and inspection, at least), there are many other cases. That is, decides to give up reality and trick with the data. For what are we going to find those missing if the law says and go to school.
Of course, there is a well-call-"technical absenteeism, ie, some of the guys who said the census that live here maybe have emigrated or have died, or are statistical errors, or have become your country (also likely that we lack census immigrants). That is, not real. But this implies, at most, small tenths of a percent on the total cohort. But do not explain all that remains. Come to think, I have not said what is missing. Here is the table (With data calculated by the Ministry at the time and no longer, and I had to prepare myself):
| Evolution of net enrollment at 15 years (1999-2009) | ||||||||
| 1999 2000 2001 | 2002 2003 2004 | |||||||
| Population 15 years | 504,174 | 483,689 465,987 454,372 | 447,912 443,197 | |||||
| Schooling 15 years | 473,313 471,141 454,287 | 443,303 436,897 438,153 | ||||||
| net enrollment | 93.9 97.4 97 | , 5 | 97.6 97.5 98.9 | |||||
| 2005 2006 | 2007 2008 | 2009 2010 | ||||||
| Population 15 years 439,728 439,660 | 438,307 436,251 433,236 | - | ||||||
| Schooling 15 years | 432,892 428,453 429,385 | 437,009 432,128 | - | |||||
| net enrollment | 97.5 98.4 98.0 | 100.2 99.7 | - | |||||
| Source : INE. Current population estimates and intercensal estimates; and Ministry of Education. The figures of Education in Spain. Statistics and Indicators. Various years. Data refer to general education. | ||||||||
see, the school Logse was responsible for more than 5% of the population 15 years of which had already been enrolled in the LGE (from 93% in the early 90's to 98% in 2007 .) I say this because when you hear some, appear that it was 50%, as obtained by the LGE (in fact, few of them pay lip service to the great achievements of the Logse know this fact: nor have bothered to look).
enters into force in 2008 the LOE, which introduces A hitch for pupils aged 15, the PCPI, a kind of small slip through route for students who enter professional basically teaching the first year (leading to professional qualification Level I), although its second year back to theory to ensure that Students take out the title again ESO. That 100.2, 2008, however, suspect that immigrant students are enrolled but not registered, which could explain a peak as 2004.
see, to our educational system for school lacked a certain percentage of pupils aged 15, one in fifty or so, when it was decided to dispense with the data. It's something occurs throughout Europe, it is not unusual. What is ridiculous, at least, is to plug the data and stop striving for improvement.
