Venezuelan Vice-President telling lies about the real situation in the education system [View All]

Yesterday, a poster shared with us the good news about the amazingly fast increase in school registration in Venezuela since the beginning of the Chavez administration. Quoted by a Belorussian site, Ramon Carrizales (Vice-President of Venezuela) said, among other successful trends, that "school registration 'increased in 320%"...

http://www.export.by/en/?act=news&mode=view&id=2457

This number sounded strange to my ears because I work in that field, so I went to check the INE (Instituto Nacional de Estadisticas/Venezuelan State official statistics institute)

http://www.ine.gov.ve/condiciones/educacion.asp

And found that school registration had indeed increased... in 21.4% (public schools) or in 22,3% (all schools)

Preschool registration: public (total)
1998: 613,765 (759,372)
2007: 837,448 (1,047,811)
http://www.ine.gov.ve/condiciones/cuadro_educacion.asp?Tt=227-06&cuadro=Educacion_227_06&xls=22706

1st to 9th year
1998: 3,597,282 (4,367,857)
2007: 4,069,867 (4,984,453)
http://www.ine.gov.ve/condiciones/cuadro_educacion.asp?Tt=227-11&cuadro=Educacion_227_11&xls=22711

Mid, diversified and professional
1998: 251,938 (388,956)
2007: 510,721 (711,305)
http://www.ine.gov.ve/condiciones/cuadro_educacion.asp?Tt=227-19&cuadro=Educacion_227_19&xls=22719

Total
1998: 4,462,985 (5,516,185)
2007: 5,418,036 (6,743,569)

320% vs. 22,3%?!

:wow:

Now I wonder how many "statistical disturbances" such as this one have been used on this forum to reflect the situation in Venezuela.