Renewed Educational Credits in Colombia with Socioeconomic and Geographic Data

Créditos Renovados is a processed and anonymized database from the Colombian Institute of Educational Credit and Technical Studies Abroad (ICETEX) statistical operation on educational credit renewal. It contains semiannual data from the first semester of 2015 through the second semester of 2025, with the 2025-2 statistics being preliminary. The dataset is published via datos.gov.co and was last updated on 2026-05-26.

Use Cases

• Analyzing renewal rates by SEXO AL NACER and ESTRATO SOCIOECONÓMICO to assess program equity.
• Modeling the relationship between NIVEL DE FORMACIÓN and NÚMERO DE RENOVACIONES to predict student persistence.
• Mapping credit distribution using DEPARTAMENTO DE ORIGEN and CATEGORÍA DEL MUNICIPIO DE ORIGEN for geographic analysis.
• Segmenting borrowers by RANGO DEL VALOR TOTAL DESEMBOLSADO and MODALIDAD DEL CRÉDITO for financial risk assessment.

Strengths

• Covers a 10-year time range from 2015 to 2025 across 20 semesters.
• Includes 13 columns detailing demographic, geographic, financial, and academic attributes.
• Data is processed and anonymized for privacy, sourced from an official government statistical operation.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Colombian Institute of Educational Credit and Technical Studies Abroad (ICETEX).

Collection Method

Processed and anonymized data from the official statistical operation on educational credit renewal.

Time Range

2015-1 to 2025-2 (semesters).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-26 14:53:43; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Colombia, indicated by DEPARTAMENTO DE ORIGEN and municipal categories.