Primary School Age Children Adjusted Net Attendance Rate

UNICEF Data and Analytics (HQ) provides a dataset measuring the percentage of children of official primary school age who attended primary or higher education during a reference academic year. The dataset was last updated on March 26, 2026. It is available in CSV and XML formats under a CC-BY-3.0-IGO license.

Use Cases

• Benchmark national primary education participation rates based on the adjusted net attendance rate indicator.
• Analyze trends in school access for children of primary school age over time.
• Model factors influencing school attendance using the attendance rate as a target variable.

Strengths

• Data is provided by UNICEF Data and Analytics (HQ), a recognized authority on child welfare statistics.
• Dataset was updated on 2026-03-26, suggesting recent maintenance.
• Available in two structured formats, CSV and XML, for flexible analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and sample data are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

UNICEF Data and Analytics (HQ)

Collection Method

Likely compiled from national administrative data and surveys.

Time Range

Reference academic year(s) are unspecified.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-26 09:06:45.910347

Geography

Spatial coverage is unspecified but likely includes multiple countries.