The survey covered 3 of the countries 9 regions. As the capital, Bamako has been purposively chosen to be included in the survey, the other two regions - Segou and Mopti - have been randomly selected among the remaining 8 regions. In each of the regions, 5 school districts have been randomly chosen to participate in the survey. Finally, in each district, 35 primary schools were randomly pick for interview. The survey thus collected data on 3 regions, 15 districts and 525 primary schools. At the school level, 1,255 teachers have also been interviewed. The data collection lasted one month starting in mid-May 2005 to end around mid-July 2005. The survey used a series of instruments for collecting data at all these different levels.

The following reports and data sets (two formats: dta=STATA, sav=SPSS) are available.
The language used is French.

• Mali ESDD Education Report (pdf file, 1.1mb)
       
• Questionnaires:
  • Primary school survey (pdf, 365kb)
  • Teacher survey (pdf file, 110kb)
  • Academie d'Enseignement (pdf file, 2221kb)
  • Centre d'Animation Pedagogique (pdf file, 268kb)
  • All (zipped file, 878kb)
        
• Data (STATA/dta and SPSS/sav formats)
  
  • ESDD Dictionnaires
    cap_dictionnaire    dta (59kb)    sav (44kb)
    dae_dictionnaire    dta (44kb)    sav (29kb)
          
  • Primary School level (zipped files)   dta (1.02mb)   sav (1.08mb)
    
  • Academie d'Engeignement level (zipped files)   dta (27.8kb)    sav (24.9kb)
    
  • Centre d'Animation Pedagogique level  (zipped files)   dta (123kb)     sav (122kb)