School Suspensions and Removals in the Netherlands, 2014 Onward

Suspension and removal reports from Dutch primary, special, and secondary education schools submitted to the Inspectorate since 2014. The data includes national counts by sector and education type, suspension durations, and the frequency of given reasons. The dataset is provided by the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and is available in ODS format.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in school disciplinary actions based on national counts by sector and education type.
• Study the duration and frequency of suspensions based on the reported suspension length data.
• Investigate the stated reasons for disciplinary actions based on the frequency of reason codes.
• Monitor compliance with mandatory reporting obligations for schools based on the reporting framework.

Strengths

• Includes data from three education levels (primary, special, secondary) starting from a known year (2014).
• Contains multiple analytical dimensions: national counts, suspension duration, and reason frequency.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties

Collection Method

Mandatory reports from schools submitted via the Internet School File (ISD) to the Inspectorate.

Time Range

Since 2014

Freshness

unknown

Geography

Netherlands