Master List of Schools 2012 - South Africa

Abstract
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The Master List of Schools is a record of all schools in South Africa. The data forms part of the national Education Management Information Systems (EMIS) database used to inform education policymakers and managers in the Department of Basic Education (DBE) and the Provincial education departments, as well as to provide valuable information to external stakeholders. The list is maintained by provincial departments and regularly sent to DBE for updating. A key function of the master list is to uniquely identify each school in the country through a school identifier called the EMIS number. Additionally, the list contains data on school quintiles - categories (quintiles) based on the socioeconomic status of the community in which the school is situated. Analyses comparing schools' performance often use school quintiles as control measures for socioeconomic status, to take into account the effect of, for example, poor infrastructure, shortage of materials and deprived home backgrounds on school performance. There are also other basic data fields in the school master list that could provide the means to answer some of the most frequently asked questions about learner enrolment, teachers and learner-teacher ratio of schools. It is a useful dataset for education planners and researchers and is even widely used in the private sector by those who regularly deal with schools.

Geographic coverage
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The data has national coverage

Analysis unit
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Individuals and institutions

Universe
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The survey covers all schools (ordinary and special needs) in South Africa, both public and independent.

Kind of data
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Administrative records and survey data

Mode of data collection
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Other

Research instrument
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Data from the SNAP survey and ANA that are used to compile the Master List of Schools is collected with a survey questionnaire and educator forms. The principle completes the survey questionnaire and each educator (both state paid and other) in each school completes an educator form. Schools record their EMIS number provided by the DBE on the questionnaire and form for identification.

Data appraisal
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The 2012 series includes data for quarters 1, 2, 3 and 4.

There is no date variable with the originial data - a date variable has been created by DataFirst.

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原始数据中不存在日期变量，DataFirst已创建了一个日期变量。'}