Datasets

Latest Datasets

The latest Datasets available on our data portal: Asenze Study and the African Cigarette Prices 2016-2024
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Early Grade Reading Study Data

Data for all years of the Department of Basic Education’s Early Grade Reading Study are now available from our data site. Some key findings are that teacher coaching is effective, and the language used in learning is important.
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Foundational Learning Data for Impact Course

The second one-week residential course will be held at the University of Cape Town from 9 to 13 June 2025. This five-day course aims to improve your skills in data cleaning, data analysis, data interpretation and the communication of resear
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Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Opportunity

We invite applications for a postdoctoral position to work in the AFLEARN Data Hub. The successful candidate will be involved in original empirical research; collating and analysing large-scale African foundational learning data; publishing
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WORLD Policy Analysis Center Datasets

In partnership with DataFirst, the WORLD Policy Analysis Center is thrilled to announce the release of open access longitudinal quantitative measures of laws and policies for African countries that lay the foundation for equal opportunities
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Can SA's unemployment figures be trusted?

The last Quarterly Labour Force Survey indicates that 35.3% of adults are unemployed in SA but some experts argue that the survey has become skewed. Xoli Mngambi asks Prof Martin Wittenberg if the figures can be trusted. View the interview
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DataFirst turns 21!

DataFirst has provided the world with open access to socioeconomic data from African countries and trained African data analysts since 2001.
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