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Ghana School Attendance Indicator data

Source: R/Ghana_2021_school_attendance.R
Ghana_2021_school_attendance.Rd

The Ghana_2021_school_attendance dataset contains school attendance indicators for respondents in the 16 regions of Ghana surveyed in the 2021 Ghana Population and Housing Census.

  • Details -Age range of survey respondents in this data set 3 years and above.

Usage

Ghana_2021_school_attendance

Format

A data frame with 64 rows and 10 variables:

  • Region

    • A factor with 16 levels with the names of the regions in Ghana

  • Gender

    • A factor with 2 levels

  • Locality

    • A factor with 2 levels describing with the respondents surveyed lived in an urban or rural area

  • Currently_Attending_School

    • numeric column with the raw count values of survey respondents aged 3 years and above currently attending school

  • Percent_Currently_Attending_School

    • A numeric column with the derived percentage of

    • ((Currently_Attending_School)/Sum_of_Respondents_(3_years_and_above))*100 to two decimal places

  • Never_Attended_School

    • -A numeric column with the raw count values of survey respondents aged 3 years and above who have never attended school

  • Percent_Never_Attended_School

    • A numeric column with the derived percentage of

    • ((Never_Attended_School)/Sum_of_Respondents_(3_years_and_above))*100 to two decimal places

  • Dropped_out_of_School

    • A numeric column with the raw count values of survey respondents aged 3 years and above who were in school but dropped out

  • Percent_Dropped_out_of_School

    • A numeric column with the derived percentage of

    • ((Dropped_out_of_School)/Sum_of_Respondents_(3_years_and_above))*100 to two decimal places

  • Sum_of_Respondents_(3_years_and_above)

    • A numeric column with the raw sum values in each row.

    • That is sum of (Currently_Attending_School, Never_Attended_School, Dropped_out_of_School) in each row

Source

  • School attendance data

  • Scraped from Ghana Statistical Service published 2021 Ghana Population and Housing Census Results Volume 3D Literacy and Education PDF Reports

https://statsghana.gov.gh/gssmain/fileUpload/pressrelease/2021%20PHC%20General%20Report%20Vol%203D_Literacy%20and%20Education.pdf

  • Ghana regional administrative boundaries geometry data

  • Downloaded from Humanitarian data exchange website on 7th January, 2022

https://data.humdata.org/dataset/ghana-administrative-boundaries