Student Discounts and Incentives in Colombian Higher Education, 2019-1 Period

Administrative records of discounts and incentives delivered to students during the 2019-1 academic period. The data originates from the Colombian open data portal www.datos.gov.co and was last updated on 2026-05-18. Columns include student demographics, academic program details, and institutional information.

Use Cases

• Analyze discount distribution by student gender (GENERO) and socioeconomic stratum (ESTRATO) across faculties (FACULTAD).
• Compare incentive concepts (CONCEPTO) across different academic programs (PROGRAMA) and campuses (SEDE).
• Profile student origins by mapping the relationship between residence departments (DEPA_RESIDENCIA) and high school processing departments (DEPA_PROC_COLEGIO).
• Investigate enrollment patterns by study methodology (METODOLOGIA) and daily schedule (JORNADA) for different colleges (COLEGIO).

Strengths

• Includes 17 distinct columns covering demographic, academic, and geographic dimensions.
• Data is available in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV, JSON, XML, and RDF.

Limitations

• Row count and total dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

www.datos.gov.co

Time Range

2019-1 academic period

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 18:26:19; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Colombia, as indicated by city and department columns (CIUDAD_RESIDENCIA, DEPA_RESIDENCIA).