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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. The 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:443/dataset/cod-ab-gha