University Student Financial Aid Records from Colombia

Records of students who received economic support from university welfare services. The dataset includes columns for the type of support, academic program, faculty, and gender. It is hosted by the Colombian open data portal www.datos.gov.co and was last updated on 2026-05-18.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the distribution of aid types (NOMBRE DEL APOYO) across different academic programs (PROGRAMA ACADEMICO).
• Studying gender (GENERO) representation among aid recipients within specific faculties (FACULTAD).
• Tracking aid allocation trends over time using the Periodo column.
• Identifying common academic programs (PROGRAMA ACADEMICO) associated with specific aid types (NOMBRE DEL APOYO).

Strengths

• Data is structured with 7 distinct columns covering support type, program, and demographics.
• Available in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV, JSON, XML, and RDF.
• Last update timestamp (2026-05-18) is provided.

Limitations

• Row count and total dataset size are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• License and author information are not specified.

Provenance

Source

www.datos.gov.co

Collection Method

Likely collected from university welfare administrative records.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 17:09:55.

Geography

Colombia (implied by source domain .gov.co).