Spanish Rural School Data on Policy and Enrollment from 2011 to 2023
by Diaz Romanillos, Esther / e-cienciaDatos Harvested Dataverse·Updated 9mo ago
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Description
Esther Diaz Romanillos compiled this dataset through systematic documentary analysis of regional laws and official statistics from the Spanish Ministry of Education. It contains normative and quantitative data on rural schools in Spain, focusing on Colegios Rurales Agrupados (CRA) from the 2010/2011 to 2022/2023 academic years. The data includes historical series on schools, units, and students, disaggregated by autonomous community and year.
Use Cases
Analyzing regional policy convergence or divergence based on the coded autonomous community regulations.
Tracking quantitative trends in rural school provision based on historical series of centers, units, and students.
Calculating percentage variations in rural education metrics across Spanish autonomous communities over time.
Comparing organizational models for rural schools based on the documented normative framework.
Strengths
Data spans 13 academic years from 2010/2011 to 2022/2023, providing a longitudinal view.
Includes both normative data from laws and decrees and quantitative data from official ministry statistics.
Data was treated to ensure homogeneity and comparability across Spain's autonomous communities.
Limitations
Quantitative data is limited to Colegios Rurales Agrupados (CRA); single-unit rural schools are not individually identified.
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
Provenance
Source
Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport (MECD) and regional legal documents.
Collection Method
Systematic documentary analysis and manual coding of regional laws, combined with extraction and treatment of official statistical publications.
Time Range
2011 to 2023 (academic years 2010/2011 to 2022/2023).
Freshness
Last updated 2025-10-14 21:46:16; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Spain, disaggregated by autonomous community.
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