Primary School Pupils by Country of Birth in the Netherlands, 2009

2009 data on the number of pupils in Dutch primary education with a non-Dutch cultural background, broken down by their country of birth. The data is aggregated per head office, secondary establishment, and school administration. It is provided by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations under a CC0-1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze the distribution of migrant-origin pupils across different school administrative levels based on the described breakdown.
• Study the composition of primary school student populations by country of birth.
• Model demographic trends in Dutch primary education for specific cultural backgrounds.
• Assess the relationship between school governance structures and pupil demographics.

Strengths

• Data is provided by a national government ministry (Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties).
• The dataset offers a breakdown by three administrative levels: head office, secondary establishment, and school administration.
• It is released under a permissive CC0-1.0 public domain license.

Limitations

• The dataset is from a single year (2009), limiting longitudinal analysis.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties (Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations)

Collection Method

Likely administrative data collection from the Dutch primary education system.

Time Range

2009

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

Netherlands