Ghana_2021_school_attendance {rGhanaCensus}

Ghana School Attendance Indicator data

Description

The Ghana_2021_school_attendance dataset contains school attendance indicators for respondents in the 16 regions of Ghana surveyed in the 2021 Ghana Population and Housing Census.

• Details -Age range of survey respondents in this data set 3 years and above.

Usage

Ghana_2021_school_attendance

Format

A data frame with 64 rows and 10 variables:

• Region

  • A factor with 16 levels with the names of the regions in Ghana

• Gender

  • A factor with 2 levels

• Locality

  • A factor with 2 levels describing with the respondents surveyed lived in an urban or rural area

• Currently_Attending_School

  • numeric column with the raw count values of survey respondents aged 3 years and above currently attending school

• Percent_Currently_Attending_School

  • A numeric column with the derived percentage of

  • ((Currently_Attending_School)/Sum_of_Respondents_(3_years_and_above))*100 to two decimal places

• Never_Attended_School

  • -A numeric column with the raw count values of survey respondents aged 3 years and above who have never attended school

• Percent_Never_Attended_School

  • A numeric column with the derived percentage of

  • ((Never_Attended_School)/Sum_of_Respondents_(3_years_and_above))*100 to two decimal places

• Dropped_out_of_School

  • A numeric column with the raw count values of survey respondents aged 3 years and above who were in school but dropped out

• Percent_Dropped_out_of_School

  • A numeric column with the derived percentage of

  • ((Dropped_out_of_School)/Sum_of_Respondents_(3_years_and_above))*100 to two decimal places

• Sum_of_Respondents_(3_years_and_above)

  • A numeric column with the raw sum values in each row.

  • That is sum of (Currently_Attending_School, Never_Attended_School, Dropped_out_of_School) in each row

Source

• School attendance data

• Scraped from Ghana Statistical Service published 2021 Ghana Population and Housing Census Results Volume 3D Literacy and Education PDF Reports

https://statsghana.gov.gh/gssmain/fileUpload/pressrelease/2021%20PHC%20General%20Report%20Vol%203D_Literacy%20and%20Education.pdf

• Ghana regional administrative boundaries geometry data

• Downloaded from Humanitarian data exchange website on 7th January, 2022

https://data.humdata.org/dataset/ghana-administrative-boundaries