EFA Global Monitoring Report 2010

The Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2010 was released on 19 January 2010. The Global Monitoring Report is written annually by an independent team and published by UNESCO.

The title of this year's report is Reaching the marginalized. UNESCO estimates that 72 million children of primary school age were out of school in 2007. The report examines who these children are and why they are excluded from education. The report further argues that there is a persistent financing gap that prevents countries from reaching the goal of education for all and that, based on current trends, 56 million children of primary school age will still be out of school in 2015.

The report introduces a new database on Deprivation and Marginalization in Education that was developed by the EFA Global Monitoring Report team and the Department of Economics at the University of Göttingen. The DME database introduces a measure of "education poverty", defined as the share of the population aged 17 to 22 years with less than 4 years or less than 2 years in school. Data are presented as global snapshots and in individual country profiles. All statistics were calculated with data from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS).

Excerpt from Nigeria country overview in DME database

Source: Deprivation and Marginalization in Education database, country overviews.

Reference

• UNESCO. 2010. EFA Global Monitoring Report 2010: Reaching the marginalized. Paris: UNESCO. (Download in PDF format, 12 MB)

External links

• EFA Global Monitoring Report 2010
• Deprivation and Marginalization in Education database
• Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)
• Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS)

Related articles

• EFA Global Monitoring Report 2011
• EFA Global Monitoring Report 2009
• EFA Global Monitoring Report 2008
• Global Education Digest 2009
• Release of 2008 education data by UIS

Friedrich Huebler, 31 January 2010 (edited 7 March 2011), Creative Commons License
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Nokia shipped 127m phones in Q4 2009, including 13.5m smartphones

"Nokia shipped 126.9 million phones in the quarter at an average price of 63 euros, it said in the statement. The adjusted margin in its main handset division jumped to 15.4 percent, beating Kallasvuo’s target of at least 12.4 percent.
Smartphone revenue rose to 3.9 billion euros, while the average selling price declined to 186 euros from 190 euros in the preceding quarter, Nokia said.
Sales of the N series multimedia phones were 4.6 million in the quarter, while company sold 8.9 million of the E series, business-oriented models that compete with Research In Motion Ltd.’s Blackberry."
Source: Nokia official figures, reported by BusinessWeek 28th January 2010
[General smartphone definition - a phone with an operating system, web access, QWERTY keyboard, messaging capability]

The iPad announcement generated 177,000 tweets in the first hour

"It should come as no surprise that the Twittersphere was (and still is) all a-buzz about the iPad — the build-up to which has been months in the making — but the iPad averaging nearly 3,000 tweets per minute in the first hour is just plain remarkable. We haven’t seen anything like it in recent history. According to Trendrr, tweets did taper off a bit after that first hour, but are still coming at about 75,000 per hour, or 1,000 per minute."
Data from Trendrr, reported by Mashable, 27th January 2010

Piracy has led to a decline in the local music releases in France, Spain and Brazil

"In France, there has been a striking fall in the number of local repertoire albums released in recent years. In the first half of 2009, 107 Frenchrepertoire albums were released, 60 per cent down on the 271 in the same period of 2003. French artist signings have also slumped by 60 per cent, from 91 in the first half of 2002 to 35 in the same period of 2009. Overall investment in marketing and promotion by the French music industry fell nine per cent in the first six months of 2009. It is estimated that 25 per cent of the French internet population currently download music illegally from P2P networks or other sources on a monthly basis (Jupiter Research, 2009).
In Spain, a culture of state-tolerated apathy towards illegal file-sharing has contributed to a dramatic slump in the music market. Spain has the worst online piracy problem of any major market in Europe. Today, P2P usage in Spain, at 32 per cent of internet users, is more than double the European rate of 15 per cent (Jupiter Research, 2009). The Spanish legitimate music market is now only one third of its size in 2001 and fell by around 17 per cent in 2009 alone. Local artist album sales in the Top 50 declined by 65 per cent between 2004 and 2009.
In Brazil, music sales fell by more than 40 per cent between 2005 and 2009, with a disastrous impact on investment in local repertoire. In 2008 there were only 67 full priced local artist album releases by the five biggest music companies in Brazil – just one tenth of the number (625) a decade earlier. This has been particularly damaging in a market where 70 per cent of music consumed is domestic repertoire."
[The report says that these are just illustrative markets, not the only markets where this effect has been seen]
Source: Page 19 of IFPI Digital Music Report 2010

Digital music - 2003 vs 2009

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Source: Page 6 of IFPI Digital Music Report 2010

Etsy sold $181m worth of goods in 2009

"Total Members: over 3.9 million
Total Sellers: over 250,000
Items Currently Listed: over 5 million
Page Views per month: over 670 million

Total $ sold (Gross Merchandise Sales)
2005 = $166,000
2006 = $3.8 million
2007 = $26 million
2008 = $87.5 million
2009 = $180.6 million"
Source: Etsy press stats, retrieved 28th January 2010

Online book piracy represents roughly 10% of total United States book sales

"Attributor’s FairShare Guardian™ service discovered that over 9 million pirated book copies were downloaded in a recent study of ~1,000 books of various genres.
These free downloads represent potential losses of $2.75-3 billion to the book publishing industry.
Online book piracy represents roughly 10% of total United States book sales.12
On average, nearly 10,000 copies of every book published are downloaded for free, led by titles in the Business and Investing genre, which average over 13,000 free downloads per title.
Titles within the Business and Investing, Professional and Technical and Science categories are potentially losing over $1 million per title to online book piracy."
Source: US Book Anti-Piracy Research Finding, Attributor Corporation, 14th January 2010