Foreign Pupil Proportions in Rhineland-Palatinate, 2020/2021 District-Level

District-level thematic maps show the proportion of foreign pupils among all pupils at their place of residence in Rhineland-Palatinate for the 2020/2021 school year. The data originates from the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie and was last updated in June 2024. It is part of a broader collection of education indicators, including enrollment rates and school-leaving qualifications.

Use Cases

• Mapping regional disparities in foreign pupil populations based on the district-level percentage data.
• Analyzing correlations between pupil demographics and other education metrics mentioned in the description, such as enrollment rates or school-leaving certificates.
• Benchmarking districts against each other for the proportion of pupils with a migrant background at school headquarters.
• Visualizing the distribution of eighth-graders in specific school types across Rhineland-Palatinate.

Strengths

• Data is georeferenced for district-level mapping and analysis.
• Covers the specific 2020/2021 school year for temporal consistency.
• Published by the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie, a German federal authority.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is delivered as a WMS service, which may require specific GIS tools for access and analysis.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for statistical modeling.

Provenance

Source

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie

Time Range

2020/2021 school year

Freshness

Last updated 2024-06-30 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (district level)