South Korean district-year panel data from the Survey on Private Tutoring Expenditures in Primary and Secondary Education, spanning 2010 to 2024. The dataset is merged with regional indicators from official statistical sources, including lagged repeater rates and university admission competition ratios. It was authored by Jieun Hong and published via Harvard Dataverse in April 2026.
Use Cases
- Modeling regional variation in private tutoring expenditures based on socioeconomic characteristics.
- Analyzing the relationship between university admission competition ratios and private tutoring spending.
- Investigating the correlation between district-level demographic factors and educational fervor.
- Conducting longitudinal panel analysis of educational trends from 2010 to 2024.
Strengths
- Data covers a 15-year time span from 2010 to 2024.
- Integrates multiple official statistical sources to create a merged panel.
- Includes specific regional indicators like lagged repeater rates and university admission competition ratios.
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
- Survey on Private Tutoring Expenditures in Primary and Secondary Education, merged with official regional statistics.
- Collection Method
- Constructed as a district-year panel from survey and administrative data.
- Time Range
- 2010 to 2024
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-23 18:40:25; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- South Korea, at the district level