TABLE 7

Ration of Education Expenditure to Gross National Products,

Total Expenditures and Social Development Expenditures, FY 1955-1972
Ratio of
Ratio of
Social Ratio of Education
Gross National Total Education Education
Development Education Expenditures to
Product at Expenditures Expenditures Expenditures to
Year Expenditures Expenditures Social
current price (Thousand (Thousand Total
(Thousand (Thousand development
(Million Pesos) Pesos) Pesos) Expenditures
Pesos) Pesos) expenditure
(Percent)
(Percent)
1955 8,687 846,731 279,267 216,668 2.5 25.6 77.6
1956 9,406 979,708 310,516 233,766 2.5 23.8 75.3
1957 9,991 1,072,709 343,375 257,857 2.6 24.0 75.1
1958 10,684 1,063,204 352,180 252,877 2.5 24.7 74.6
1959 11,369 1,012,193 367,427 275,283 2.4 27.2 74.9
1960 12,126 1,195,960 415,634 321,422 2.7 26.9 77.3
1961 13,432 1,410,602 520,432 377,383 2.8 26.8 72.5
1962 15,094 1,469,376 567,855 433,412 2.9 29.5 76.3
1963 17,472 1,852,057 644,730 479,937 2.7 25.9 74.4
1964 18,875 2,067,482 732,980 582,184 3.1 28.2 79.4
1965 20,445 2,077,354 749,219 604,418 3.0 291 80.7
1966 22,338 2,227,721 872,697 713,468 3.2 32.0 81.8
1967 24,542 2,531,038 953,221 800,413 3.3 31.6 83.9
1968 28,376 2,944,328 1,046,724 872,650 3.1 29.6 83.4
1969 33,870 3,611,040 1,214,369 987,194 2.9 27.3 81.3
1970 40,694 4,053,487 1,412,786 1,132,672 2.8 27.9 80.2
1971a 49,223 4,083,466 1,457,833 1,147,121 2.3 28.1 78.7
1972a - 4,574,203 1,549,450 1,261,305 - 27.6 81.4
a
Budget Estimates
- No data available.
Source: Budget Commission and National Economic Council

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 TABLE 8
Backlog in Classroom Constructions in Relation to Enrolment Increase,
SY 1959 1960 to 1967-1968
School Year Enrolment Increase/(Decrease) Total Divided Additional classroom Yearly Backlog
Elementary Secondary Normal Total by 40* construction**
1959-1960 167,769 7,025 1,145 175,941 4,399 1,382 3,017
1960-1961 32,451 (7,782)a 1,132 25,901 648 1,458 (810)
1961-1962 225,476 20,397 1,239 247,112 6,178 3,712 2,466
1962-1963 371,290 21,106 974 393,370 9,834 4,673 5,161
1963-1964 394,284 42,856 (129) 436,011 10,925 6,674 4,251
1964-1965 335,323 33,913 761 369,997 9,250 1,786 7,464
1965-1966 223,606 45,249 854 269,709 6,743 3,730 3,013
1966-1967 358,237 58,444 62 416,743 10,419 1,008 9,411
1967-1968 207,190 45,511 (65) 252,636 6,316 685 5,631
TOTAL 2,315,626 266,719 5,975 2,587,20 64,712 25,108 39,604

*Additional classrooms needed

**Including vocational schools.
a
Non-add (decrease)
Note: School Year 1964-1965 to 1967-1968 excludes vocational schools
Source: Annual Reports of the director of the bureau of the public schools, 1965-1968 and statistical bulletin.

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