School Register of Needs Survey 2000 - South Africa

Abstract
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The Department of Education commissioned the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) to conduct a national survey on the locality and other information linked to all schools in South Africa. The 2000 version was intended to update the 1996 version of the register of needs database, include 3000 institutions that were previously excluded, provide accurate data on geolocality of schools, school conditions and the availability of resources, and measure progress and trends betwee 1996 and 2000.

Geographic coverage
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The survey had national coverage

Analysis unit
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Institutions

Universe
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The universe of the survey was all schools in South Africa

Kind of data
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Administrative records

Data appraisal
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This version was adapted from a cleaned dataset prepared by the Developmental Policy Research Unit (DPRU), which was obtained by DataFirst at an unknown date between the original release and February 2012. This version replaces numerous string valued variables with integer valued ones, which is particularly useful as case sensitivity has artificially separated semantically identical observations into different categories for some variables. These integer valued string variables are labelled and the codelist relating those labels is provided as an accompanying document. The original version contained a number of anomalies, errors and misspecifications that make it intractable. This version partially remedies these issues and represents a cleaner version of the data than the original (which can be requested from DataFirst).

摘要
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教育部委托南非人类科学研究委员会（HSRC）开展全国性调查，以收集与南非所有学校相关的地域及其他信息。2000年的版本旨在更新1996年版的注册需求数据库，纳入3000所之前被排除的机构，提供关于学校地理位置、学校状况及资源可用性的准确数据，并衡量1996年至2000年间的进展与趋势。
地理覆盖范围
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调查覆盖全国。
分析单位
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机构。
总体
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调查的总体涵盖南非所有学校。
数据类型
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行政记录。
数据评估
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本版本的数据基于发展政策研究单元（DPRU）清洗后的数据集改编而成，该数据集由DataFirst在原始发布与2012年2月之间的某个未知日期获取。本版本将多个字符串值变量替换为整数值变量，这对于某些变量而言，由于大小写敏感性人为地将语义上相同的观察值分隔到不同的类别中，特别有益。这些整数值字符串变量已被标注，并与相关标签的代码列表一起提供的附加文档中。原始版本包含一些异常、错误和不规范之处，使其难以处理。本版本部分解决了这些问题，并代表了比原始版本（可从DataFirst请求）更为干净的数据版本。