Children’s enrollment in preschool education: Level, variations between regions and its reasons

Abstract

In 2007, The Interregional Association for Education Monitoring and Statistics conducted a complex study of preschool education in Russia. It included an overview of international data, a sociological survey, and an analysis of statistics on the following topics: * Factors and conditions on enrolment of older preschool children in education programs; * Accessibility of quality pre-school education; * Balance between the demand and supply of education for older pre-school children. The survey covers 14 pilot regions, where all types of principal actors in the sphere of preschool education were polled. Both parents and educators were polled, and parents of children both attending and not attending pre-school institutions were included in the sample. 5,155 parents and 2,034 preschool educators took part in the survey.