Classroom counts for lower secondary education are reported by individual countries, with definitions and methods determined nationally. The data originates from the Global Partnership for Education and is aggregated by the World Bank. The temporal coverage is not specified.
Use Cases
- Analyze the relationship between classroom counts and student enrollment figures to assess overcrowding.
- Model national infrastructure capacity using reported classroom counts as a key input variable.
- Compare country-level definitions of 'minimally equipped' classrooms to standardize cross-national studies.
Strengths
- Data is reported at the national level, enabling country-specific analysis.
- The indicator focuses on a concrete, countable infrastructure unit (classrooms).
Limitations
- Row count, sample size, and temporal coverage are unknown.
- Country-specific definitions introduce potential inconsistency in cross-national comparisons.
- The dataset lacks accompanying demographic or enrollment data for context.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank, sourced from the Global Partnership for Education.
- Collection Method
- Country-reported data on number of minimally equipped classrooms for lower secondary education.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- National coverage for reporting countries.