UNICEF Data and Analytics (HQ) provides the proportion of children in the official primary school age range who are not enrolled in any level of education. The dataset was last updated on 2026-03-26 10:11:21.791636 and is available in CSV and XML formats under a CC-BY-3.0-IGO license.
Use Cases
- Monitor progress towards universal primary education based on out-of-school rate indicators.
- Compare enrollment gaps across different regions or countries based on administrative data.
- Assess the impact of specific events, like COVID-19, on primary school attendance.
- Model demographic factors influencing school non-enrollment based on age-range data.
Strengths
- Data is sourced from UNICEF, an authoritative organization in child welfare.
- Available in two structured formats, CSV and XML, for flexible analysis.
- License is clearly specified as CC-BY-3.0-IGO, permitting reuse with attribution.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- UNICEF Data and Analytics (HQ)
- Collection Method
- Administrative data collection.
- Time Range
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- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03-26 10:11:21.791636; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
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