School Drinking Water Service Coverage Indicators

UNICEF Data and Analytics (HQ) provides a dataset on the proportion of schools with limited drinking water services. The data, last updated on March 26, 2026, focuses on schools that have an improved water source but lack water at the time of survey. It is available in CSV and XML formats under a CC-BY-3.0-IGO license.

Use Cases

• Assess disparities in basic water service access for schools based on the reported proportion metric.
• Monitor progress towards WASH in Schools targets based on survey-derived service indicators.
• Model correlations between school infrastructure and educational outcomes based on water availability data.

Strengths

• Data is provided by UNICEF Data and Analytics (HQ), a recognized authority on child-related statistics.
• The dataset was last updated on March 26, 2026, suggesting recent maintenance.
• Available under the permissive CC-BY-3.0-IGO license for reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Geographic and temporal coverage are not specified in the provided metadata.

Provenance

Source

UNICEF Data and Analytics (HQ)

Collection Method

Likely compiled from national survey data.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-26 09:06:50.777732

Geography

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