Android had 22% of the tablet market in Q4 2010

"The latest research published by market research company Strategy Analytics, has found that Android’s momentum is not limited to mobile devices but is also showing big gains in the tablet market.
According to the research during Q.4 2010, 22% of the 10 million tablet devices that where shipped ran on Android. Overall the market grew by 120% sequentially with Apple maintaining it’s leading position with 75% of global market share."

Source:  Data from Strategy Analytics, reported by MobiADNews, 27th February 2011 

UIS time series with education data since 1970

The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) has released new time series with education data for the years since 1970. Until this release, most indicators in the UIS Data Centre only had data for 1999 and later years, except for literacy, for which the UIS offered data for the period since 1975. The historical data are compliant with the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) of 1997 and therefore comparable with existing post-1998 data in the UIS Data Centre.

With the new release, the UIS now offers data for the past 40 years for the following indicators:

• Entry age and duration of pre-primary, primary and secondary education
• School age population of pre-primary, primary, secondary and tertiary age
• Enrolment in pre-primary, primary, secondary and tertiary education
• Gross enrolment ratio (GER) for pre-primary, primary, secondary and tertiary education
• Net enrolment rate (NER) for primary education
• New entrants to primary education
• Gross intake ratio for primary education
• Repeaters in primary and secondary education
• Gross intake rate to the last grade of primary education
• School life expectancy
• Teaching staff in pre-primary, primary, secondary and tertiary education
• Pupil/teacher ratio in pre-primary, primary and secondary education

As an example for the expanded coverage, Figure 1 shows the gross enrolment ratio in primary education for China, India, Indonesia, Nigeria and the United States, the five countries with the largest population of primary school age in 2010, for the period 1970-2009. Figure 2 shows how school life expectancy evolved in these countries over the same period.

Figure 1: Gross enrolment ratio (GER) in primary education, 1970-2009

Source: UIS Data Centre, February 2011

Figure 2: School life expectancy, primary to tertiary education, 1970-2009

Source: UIS Data Centre, February 2011

The time series can be retrieved from the UIS Data Centre, under "Predefined Tables" and "Education". Data for the years 1970 to 1998 are in Tables 21 to 26, and data for 1999 and following years are in Tables 1 to 20H.

As an example, the primary GER in Figure 1 is available in Tables 5 (for 1970-1998) and 23 (for 1999-2009). To create a complete time series for 1970-2009, the data from Tables 5 and 23 must be merged after download from the Data Centre. Data on school life expectancy are in Tables 8 and 22.

Related articles

• Trends in adult literacy, 1990-2008
• Children out of school: Global trend 1999-2008
• Global Education Digest 2010
• UNESCO releases data from 2008 education survey
• Review of the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED)

External links

• UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
• UIS Data Centre
• Official announcement of data release by UIS

Friedrich Huebler, 27 February 2011, Creative Commons License
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"Mommy Blog" Dooce.com generates an estimated $30,000 - $50,000 per month in revenue

"She [Heather Armstrong] is one of the few bloggers who wield that kind of clout. Typically, there are 100,000 visitors daily to her site, Dooce.com, where she writes about her kids, her husband, her pets, her treatment for depression and her life as a liberal ex-Mormon living in Utah. As she points out, a sizable number also follow her on Twitter (in the year and a half since she threatened Maytag, she has added a half-million more). She is the only blogger on the latest Forbes list of the Most Influential Women in Media, coming in at No. 26, which is 25 slots behind Oprah, but just one slot behind Tina Brown. Her site brings in an estimated $30,000 to $50,000 a month or more — and that’s not even counting the revenue from her two books, healthy speaking fees and the contracts she signed to promote Verizon and appear on HGTV. She won’t confirm her income (“We’re a privately held company and don’t reveal our financials”). But the sales rep for Federated Media, the agency that sells ads for Dooce, calls Armstrong “one of our most successful bloggers,” then notes a few beats later in our conversation that “our most successful bloggers can gross $1 million.”"
Source:  New York Times, 23rd February 2011

Old Spice's 2010 marketing helped the brand become the best selling men's bodywash and deodorant in the US

"Old Spice brand manager James Moorhead agrees. "Old Spice is the number one male body wash and deodorant in both dollar and volume share," Moorhead said in an e-mail. "While we can't disclose specific sales data, we can tell you we are very happy with the positive business growth that has been a result of the campaign." "

Source:  Oregon Live, 17th July 2010

99% of internet access in Kenya is through mobile operators

"Highlights of Q4 2010:
There are 22 million mobile subscribers in Kenya
9.5% mobile subscriptions growth, which is increasing over the previous quarters
6.63 billion minutes of local calls were made on the mobile networks
740 million text messages were sent
Prepaid accounts for 99% of the total mobile subscriptions
The number of internet users was estimated at 8.69 million
The number of internet/data subscriptions is 3.2 million
Broadband subscriptions increased from 18,626 subscribers in the previous quarter to 84,726"
[...]
"A whopping 99% of the internet traffic in Kenya is done via mobile operators, meaning 3G, Edge or GPRS."

Source:  The latest Communications Commission of Kenya report, reported by White African, 18th February 2011

Hat-tip Interesting Snippets

What Google learned in 2010

Insights into search, purchase paths, and more



Source:  Google internal stats, published 1st February 2011

Apple took an estimated 83% of all app store revenues in 2010

"Though more online stores have been crowding the mobile app market, Apple remains by far the app-store leader, according to data out today from IHS, which recently acquired technology researcher iSuppli.
For 2010, Apple took in $1.78 billion in worldwide sales from its App Store, a leap of 132 percent from $769 million in 2009. And while it lost market share to some of its mobile rivals, Apple still captured 82.7 percent of the app store market last year, down from 92.8 percent the prior year."

Source:  Data from iSuppli, reported by CNET, 15th February, 2011