Official medium of instruction

Quick info
Data type	Nominal
Scale	Multinomial
Value labels	Official medium of instruction
Technical name	edu_med_instr
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This indicator refers to the official medium or media of instruction. Every new introduction or abolition is coded. The indicator contains the langages prescribed as medium of instruction by law from the year they were encoded. The different levels of education were aggregated and not coded as seperate data, as not all countries make this distinction.

Coding rules

The COW country coding rules are used.

Bibliographic info

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Misc

Project manager(s): Michael Windzio / Helen Seitzer / Fabian Besche

Data release:

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Sources

Marlow-Ferguson, Rebecca (2002): World Education Encyclopedia. A survey of educational systems worldwide. Detroit: Gale Group. Brock, Colin (Edit): Book Series. Education Around the World. London/New York: Bloomsbury.