- Sustainable Development Indicator (SDI) Group
- SDI Inventory, Organized by Issue
- Working Draft, Version 3, October 8, 1996
Definition: Fair and impartial access to education regardless of economic or social status
Candidate SDI:
- Test Scores by Economic Group (414 SDI Group)
- Definition: Standardized achievement test scores organized by economic group
- SDI Framework Element: Educational Services (2.1.6.4)
- Element Characteristic: Number of People
Definition: Systematic provision of a society for the transmission of knowledge, information, and technologies
Candidate SDI:
- Education Funding (131 SDI Group)
- Definition: Total funding for schools
- SDI Framework Element: Expenditures (3.1.5)
- Element Characteristic: Amount of Money Spent
- Education Spending per Gross Domestic Product (237 UN CSD)
- Definition: Percent of Gross Domestic product spent on education
- SDI Framework Element: Expenditures (3.1.5)
- Element Characteristic: Amount of Money Spent
- Graduates With Jobs (440 SDI Group)
- Definition: The total number of high school graduates that obtain jobs within three months of graduation
- SDI Framework Element: Educational Services (2.1.6.4)
- Element Characteristic: Amount of Money Spent
- Lifelong Learning Communities (55 PCSD)
- Definition: number of school systems and communities with programs for lifelong learning
- SDI Framework Element: Educational Institutions (1.3.4.3)
- Element Characteristic: Number of Schools
- Primary School Enrollment (232 UN CSD)
- Definition: Primary school enrollment ratio (net and gross)
- SDI Framework Element: Educational Institutions (1.3.4.3)
- Element Characteristic: Number of People
- School Age Population Growth (231 UN CSD)
- Definition: Rate of growth of school age population
- SDI Framework Element: Education and Training Capacity (1.3.2.2.1)
- Element Characteristic: Number of People
- Secondary School Enrollment (233 UN CSD)
- Definition: Secondary school enrollment ratio (net and gross)
- SDI Framework Element: Educational Services (2.1.6.4)
- Element Characteristic: Number of People
- Student Teacher Ratio (439 SDI Group)
- Definition: The total number of students (kindergarten through high school) divided by the total number of teachers
- SDI Framework Element: Education and Training (3.3.2)
- Element Characteristic: Amount of Money Spent
- Teacher Capabilities (437 SDI Group)
- Definition: The average capacity or skill level of individual teachers to instruct students
- SDI Framework Element: Educational Institutions (1.3.4.3)
- Element Characteristic: Amount of Money Spent
- Teacher Training Capacity (438 SDI Group)
- Definition: The number of trained teachers certified per year
- SDI Framework Element: Educational Institutions (1.3.4.3)
- Element Characteristic: Amount of Money Spent
Definition: The amount or quality of knowledge, information, and and skills acquired by the individual
Candidate SDI:
- 5th Grade Education (235 UN CSD)
- Definition: Survival to grade 5 of primary education (%)
- SDI Framework Element: Education and Training Capacity (1.3.2.2.1)
- Element Characteristic: Number of People
- Adult Literacy Rate (234 UN CSD)
- Definition: Adult literacy rate (%)
- SDI Framework Element: Educational Services (2.1.6.4)
- Element Characteristic: Number of People
- Graduation Rate (57 PCSD)
- Definition: high school graduation rates and number of students going on to college or vocational training
- SDI Framework Element: Educational Institutions (1.3.4.3)
- Element Characteristic: Number of People
- National Achievement Test Scores (56 PCSD)
- Definition: standardized achievement test scores
- SDI Framework Element: Educational Services (2.1.6.4)
- Element Characteristic: Test Scores
Definition: Fair and impartial access to information regardless of economic or social status
Candidate SDI:
- Community Information Use (34 PCSD)
- Definition: Increase in library use
- SDI Framework Element: Social Institutions (1.3.4)
- Element Characteristic: Number of Users
- Distance to Library (395 SDI Group)
- Definition: Average distance to public library
- SDI Framework Element: Community (1.3.4.1)
- Element Characteristic: Distance
- Forest Data Users (116 USDA FS)
- Definition: number of users of data published on trends in forest ecosystems
- SDI Framework Element: Social Institutions (1.3.4)
- Element Characteristic: Number of Users
- Forest Indicators (118 USDA FS)
- Definition: Total number of organizations (Federal, state, and local) developing indicators on sustainable forest management
- SDI Framework Element: Governments and Legal Institutions (1.3.4.7)
- Element Characteristic: Number of Groups
- Forest Measurements (117 USDA FS)
- Definition: capacity to measure and monitor changes in the conservation and sustainable management of forests, including scope, frequency and statistical reliability of forest inventories, assessments, monitoring and other relevant information
- SDI Framework Element: Governments and Legal Institutions (1.3.4.7)
- Element Characteristic: Amount of Data Collected
- Internet Access (52 PCSD)
- Definition: number of communities with infrastructure that allows access to government information, public
- SDI Framework Element: Community (1.3.4.1)
- Element Characteristic: Number of Internet Hookups
- School Internet Access (349 PCSD)
- Definition: Increase in percentage of schools and libraries with access to the Internet and National Information Infrastructure.
- SDI Framework Element: Intellectual and Cultural Organizations (1.3.4.10)
- Element Characteristic: Number of Internet Hookups