Joint COVID R3

3^rd Iteration of the Survey on National Education Responses to COVID-19 School Closures

As part of the coordinated global education response to the COVID-19 pandemic, UNESCO, UNICEF, and the World Bank have collaborated with OECD for the third round of the survey designed for ministries of education to better understand their responses to school closures and subsequent re-openings at the inception of 2021.

The survey aims to generate inputs to better understand the impact of COVID-19 on various aspects related to the education systems, as well as the policies implemented to assess and remediate them, including strategies to ensure equity and safe reopening of schools for all.

Concept note

English - French - Russian - Spanish - Arabic

Questionnaires

The survey questionnaires are available in the following languages:

• Arabic
• English
• French
• Russian
• Spanish

OECD questionnaire (Excel)

Glossary

To assist in the completion of the 3rd iteration of the survey, a glossary is available in English, French, Spanish, Russian and Arabic.

Technical note

A technical note on the Survey of National Education Responses to COVID-19 School Closures (round 3) presents the survey in general and provides
more information on the data cleaning process.

Appendix 1 and 2 (Excel file will download)

Data

Data files are publicly available :

• Database from the survey third round of data collection (Excel file will download)
  • UIS
  • OECD
• Codebook (Excel file will download)
• Codes (do-files): https://github.com/worldbank/school-survey/tree/v2.0

What's Next? Lessons on Education Recovery: Findings from a Survey of Ministries of Education amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

UNESCO, the UNICEF, the World Bank and the OECD have collaborated in the 3^rd round of the Survey on National Education Responses to COVID-19 School Closures, administered by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and OECD to Ministry of Education officials.