EDUCATIONAL INDICATORS BASED ON THE PNAD DATABASE FROM 2001 AND 2011

Sa？etak This study aims to introduce some aspects of home databases of the National Sample Household Surveys (PNAD), provided by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), analyzing their advantages and disadvantages. The PNADs are important for the study of education as they enabled the calculation of various educational indicators that can be broken down into several levels of geographic units and various demographic and socioeconomic groups, such as income level, age, sex, educational group of parents etc. and would permit the study of historical series. Secondly, we present the calculation methodology for a set of educational indicators derived from the home bases, such as illiteracy rates, average years of schooling, schooling rate and others. With these indicators built up a picture of the evolution of Brazilian education, the Northeast and the Sergipe state for the years 2001 and 2011.The results show that the Brazilian education, despite recent advances, is still very precarious, even when compared to income countries per capita equal to or similar to ours