Data to replicate “Determinants of Distance Education Dropout: Evidence for Open University of Brazil/Federal University of Santa Maria Courses”

This dataset is derived from a study that seeks to understand the determinants of student dropout in the courses offered at the Open University of Brazil system at the Federal University of Santa Maria. Are part of the population of all students who enrolled in graduated and postgraduate courses offered by OUB/UFSM, from 2005 to 2018, totaling 18,025 enrollments. The research instrument was sent by e-mail, at the Data Processing Center of UFSM, to the entire population and was available online, for 15 days. After this period, 859 valid instruments were obtained, of which 364 were regularly enrolled and 495 were evaded students. The research was approved by the Research Ethics Committee (CAAE: 00982218.0.0000.5346).