Student Flows Across Regions and Settlements in Kazakhstan, 2020–2024: A Comprehensive Dataset

The dataset contains comprehensive data on internal student mobility between settlements and regions in Kazakhstan from the year 2020 through to year 2024. It contains yearly totals of transferring students, broken down by origin and destination sites, both at the regional and settlement levels. The data was derived from the Kazakhstan National Education Database and represents official administrative counts for transferring schools. It is provided to help facilitate research on educational mobility, educational inequality, urbanization, and school planning and forecasting.

-This dataset consists of six individual tables derived from aggregated student migration data from Kazakhstan for the period from 2020 to 2024. The tables are in .csv form and can be found in the 'Dataset/data' folder.
-There is a detailed variable description in the provided 'Dataset/data/Codebook.xlsx' that explains every field utilized in the dataset.
-Each table is also accompanied by a related visualisation (such as bar charts, maps, line graphs) that presents main patterns and insights. The visualisations appear in the 'Dataset/data/visualizations' folder and they correspond to every table by figure number for easy reference.
-The Dataset/code folder contains the Python code used to process and analyze the raw data from the National Education Database (NEDB), along with a README.txt file that provides a step-by-step explanation of the methodology.