Key national indicators of educational outcomes and performance. At minimum we assess national aggregates, split by sex and age for at least two school stages.
Question | Answer | Comment |
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Available free of charge | Yes | |
Downloadable | Yes | |
Publicly available | Yes | |
Openly licenced | No | This is a statement on the opendata portal, however no actual license is found - "The Kenya Open Data Portal makes Public Government datasets accessible for free to the public in easy reusable formats,supporting the Government's drive to proactively inform citizens and be accountable." |
Up-to-date | No | |
In an open and machine-readable format | CSV, KML | Datasets are made available in csv format (listed as spreadsheet on the site), though some datasets are also available in KML and Shapefile formats. |
location | https://www.opendata.go.ke/datasets?q=education - Datasets on education on the Kenya Open Data Portal, https://www.opendata.go.ke/datasets/percentage-distribut - Enrolment and completion rates, https://www.opendata.go.ke/datasets?q=attendance - Attendance | * Enrolment - outdated * No literacy rates |
Collected by government | Yes | |
findable_steps | Searched for datasets on the Kenya Open Data Portal. The datasets are not available on the ministry of education website. | |
characteristics | Enrolment and completion rates, Attendance and literacy rates, Disaggregation by sex and age, Data available for two school stages or more | There is data on enrollment by gender and level of education, which should fit well with the sought characteristic on attendance. There are no datasets on literacy and exam results. Ranking of primary and secondary exam results was banned in 2016, and data on performance per school is no longer available. |
Controlled access | Yes | |
Collector name | Education statistics are hosted on the Kenyan Open Data Portal (https://www.opendata.go.ke/) which is managed by the Kenyan ICT Authority (https://icta.go.ke/who-we-are/) | |
licence_url | The following statement is made available on the Kenya Open Data Portal home page www.opendata.go.ke: The Kenya Open Data Portal makes Public Government datasets accessible for free to the public in easy reusable formats,supporting the Government's drive to proactively inform citizens and be accountable. |