Peruvian local-level male school enrollment and literacy data from the 1902 Censo Escolar. The dataset supports an analysis of educational development and state capacity during the Aristocratic Republic period (1895–1919). It was assembled by Hillel Soifer for a project exploring variation in public goods provision.
Use Cases
- Analyzing sub-national variation in educational development based on local-level enrollment and literacy data.
- Assessing the spatial reach of state authority based on patterns of missing census data.
- Investigating the relationship between administrative centralization and public goods provision based on historical government documents.
Strengths
- Data is derived from a primary historical source, the 1902 Censo Escolar.
- The project explores a specific historical period (1895–1919) known as the Aristocratic Republic.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect temporal and geographic bias inherent to historical census records.
Provenance
- Source
- QDR Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Primary documents collected largely in 2004 during dissertation fieldwork in Lima.
- Time Range
- 1895–1919 (Aristocratic Republic period), with focus on data from 1902.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2025-10-20 19:59:43; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Peru, at the local level.