{"doc_desc":{"producers":[{"name":"DataFirst","affiliation":"University of Cape Town","role":"Metadata Record Producer"}],"prod_date":"2025","version_statement":{"version":"2","version_date":"2026-08-31"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"zaf-dbe-lurits-2017-2021-v1","title":"Learner Unit Record Information and Tracking System Data 2017-2021","identifiers":[{"type":"DOI","identifier":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.25828\/tbnz-7152"}]},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Department of Basic Education","affiliation":"Government of South Africa"}],"production_statement":{"producers":[{"name":"Martin Gustafsson","affiliation":"Department of Basic Education","role":"Data preparation and anonymisation"}],"prod_date":"2022"},"distribution_statement":{"distributors":[{"name":"DataFirst","affiliation":"University of Cape Town","uri":"https:\/\/www.datafirst.uct.ac.za\/"}],"contact":[{"name":"DataFirst Helpdesk","affiliation":"University of Cape Town","email":"support@data1st.org","uri":"support.data1st.org"}],"depositor":[{"name":"Department of Basic Education","abbr":"DBE","affiliation":"Government of South Africa","uri":"https:\/\/www.education.gov.za\/"}],"deposit_date":"2025","distribution_date":"2025"},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Learner Unit Record Information and Tracking System Data"},"version_statement":{"version":"Version 1","version_date":"2025"},"bib_citation":"Department of Basic Education. Learner Unit Record Information and Tracking System (LURITS) Data 2017-2021[dataset]. Pretoria: DBE [producer], 2022. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2025. DOI: datafirst.uct.ac.za\/dataportal\/index.php\/catalog\/1062","bib_citation_format":"DataCite","study_authorization":{"date":"1999","agency":[{"name":"Department of Basic Education","abbr":"DBE","affiliation":"Government of South Africa"}],"authorization_statement":"Data collection by organs of state in South Africa is authorised by the Statistics Act 1999"},"study_info":{"topics":[{"topic":"Learners"},{"topic":"Schools"}],"abstract":"The Department of Education's South African School Administration and Management System, SA-SAMS, is made available to all schools free of charge for uploading data to the Learner Unit Record Information and Tracking System, LURITS, and other education information management systems. LURITS includes unit-record data for each learner in South Africa, from Grade R through to Grade 12. The system also tracks each learner's movement from school to school. The LURITS system is dependent on receiving data from computerised school administration systems. Schools without computerised school administration systems provide paper-based reports to districts for uploading to LURITS. The dataset provided by DataFirst is the LURITS data, prepared as research-ready.","time_periods":[{"start":"2017","end":"2021"}],"coll_dates":[{"start":"2017","end":"2021"}],"nation":[{"name":"South Africa","abbreviation":"zaf"}],"geog_coverage":"The data has national coverage","analysis_unit":"Individuals and establishments","universe":"The data covers Grade R to Grade 12 learners, as well as educators and schools in South Africa","data_kind":"Administrative records data [adm]","notes":"The data is input by school principals into the LURITS Module of the SA-SAMS"},"method":{"data_collection":{"data_collectors":[{"name":"Department of Basic Education","abbr":"DBE","role":"Data collection and processing","affiliation":"Government of South Africa"}],"frequency":"Data is inputted to the LURITS Module of the South African School Administration and Management System, SA-SAMS, four times per year","coll_mode":["Other [other]"]}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"restrictions":"Research use only","contact":[{"name":"DataFirst Support","affiliation":"University of Cape Town","email":"support@data1st.org","uri":"support.data1st.org"}],"cit_req":"Department of Basic Education. Learner Unit Record Information and Tracking System Data 2017-2021 [dataset]. Version 1.1. Pretoria: DBE [producer], 2022. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2025. DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.25828\/tbnz-7152","deposit_req":"Users of the data must send DataFirst a copy of or link to any publication based on the data","conditions":"Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial CC-BY-NC access and use license"}}},"schematype":"survey"}