A dataset from the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations detailing the number of pupils per competent school board and religious denomination. It distinguishes between regular pupils and those outsourced to adult education programs, known as 'Rutte pupils'. The data is provided in Excel and CSV formats under a CC-BY-4.0 license.
Use Cases
- Analyzing the distribution of pupils across different school boards based on the administrative data.
- Comparing enrollment numbers between regular education and outsourced adult education programs.
- Studying the relationship between school denomination and student population size.
- Mapping educational authority and capacity based on pupil counts per competent authority.
Strengths
- Provides a distinction between two pupil categories: regular and those in adult education.
- Data is sourced from an authoritative government ministry.
- Available in two common, accessible file formats: Excel and CSV.
Limitations
- Row count and dataset size are 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 (Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations)
- Collection Method
- Administrative data collection by the Ministry of Education.
- Time Range
- unknown
- Freshness
- unknown
- Geography
- Likely the Netherlands, inferred from the publishing ministry.