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The Project for Jewish Edu- cation Statistics, based in Jerusalem at the Hebrew University, has undertaken to do just that. "We regard this as the most reliable data base ever to be produced on this topic," stressed Prof. Alie Dubb, the project's director and a faculty member of the university's Institute of Contemporary Judaism. "This does not mean that it's an absolutely reliable data base. But for the first time, this kind of census is using a standardized procedure and questionnaire, processed by a centralized team." All Diaspora Jewish communities which were known to have Jewish schools were covered in the survey. This includes com- munities in North and Latin America, western Europe (including Romania and Hungary), South Af- rica, Australia and some Moslem countries. It is be- lieved that more than 90 percent of existing Jewish schools outside Israel were reached, involving some 540,000 pupils. This statis- tic covers day and supplementary schools (af- ternoon and Sunday) at all levels, ranging from pre- school, through secondary school. According to Prof. Dubb, the presumably simple task of distributing the ques- tionnaire was enormously difficult. He noted that in the United States, for example, there is no central register. "In such a large country," he said, "the phys- ical task of finding the schools was enormous. Therefore, just compiling a world-wide register of Jewish educational institu- tions is in itself a valuable result of the census." Another problem was in defining certain ideological terms. Prof. Dubb pointed out one example of this, in regard to what the word "sponsor" implied. The term had different connotations for differet people: who fi- nanced the institution, who founded it, who is responsi- ble for running it, and to who it is affiliated. Principals of all known Jewish schools received questionnaires. If the staff failed in several attempts to obtain responses, they sought their information from other sources. All in all, about 80 percent of the questionnaires were com- pleted and returned. Once that was accomplished, it was found that the quality of the responses was not al- ways high. Checks for con- sistency were made, and the most reliable information available was obtained. Since the staff in Jerusalem could not contact all the institutions alone, various local organizations were called on for help. The Jewish Educational Serv- ices of North America, the Educational Department of the Board of deputies of British Jews, the South Af- rican Board of Jewish Edu- cation, and the European Council for Jewish Com- munity Services all aided in the research. In other coun- tries, various individuals and communal institutions were asked to assist. Current estimates show that for the whole Diaspora, excluding eastern Europe, 40 to 45 percent of all Jewish children aged 3 to 17 were enrolled in Jewish schools in 1981 and 1982. Sixty-nine percent of these pupils were in the United States. In the U.S., 72 percent of the pupils receiving any Jewish education attended supplementary Jewish schools, ranging from once-a-week classes to daily Hebrew school sessions. In the United Kingdom, 53 percent of the pupils were enrolled in supplementary schools, while in other major communities pre- schools and day schools ac- counted for from 60 percent to 88 percent of enrollment. In some smaller com- munities almost all Jewish education took place in pre-schools and day schools. In general, there were almost 40 percent fewer pupils at the secondary school level than at the pri- mary level. In supplemen- tary schools, 70 percent of the students stopped their formal Jewish schooling after their b'nai mitzvah. Prof. Dubb is hesitant to draw conclusions from the numbers as they stand. He pointed out that the de- crease of pupils at secon- dary level could be for a number of reasons, ranging from a lack of interest in continuing education to a scarcity of classes or schools at the more expensive sec- ondary school level. "Statistics tell us nothing about content or value," Prof. Dubb said. "Their im- portance is in giving a fac- tual basis as to how many people we're talking about. Without the numbers we know very little." "The project is being sponsored by the Joint Pro- gram for Jewish Education under the auspices of the Jewish Agency, the World Zionist Organization, and Israel's Ministry of Educa- tion and Culture. These three bodies are also the sponsors of the World Lead- ership Conference. Prof. Dubb believes that the statistics will provide an important underpinning for the conference. "The num- bers they bandy about should be factual and com- prised on a world-wide basis. 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