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Harnessing the power of data

When teacher Chiratip Kaewphaisan heard about the imminent visit by a team collecting data in the northeastern province of Nakhon Phanom for a national survey on children and women, she had just one question: “Will [relevant government agencies] send an expert or a tutor to offer a special class for the students?”

Chiratip, who teaches Thai literacy to grade 4-6 students at Ban Ngiu Sang Kaeo School in Phon Sawan district, was right to be concerned. Around half of her fourth and fifth graders were unable to read or write properly, while five of her 21 sixth graders had inadequate literacy skills.

One of her students was to be tested in reading and numeracy skills that afternoon, as part of the data collection for Thailand’s seventh Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey, known as MICS7 — the country’s largest survey on children and women conducted every…

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