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Learner Unit Record Information and Tracking System Data 2024

South Africa, 2024
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Reference ID
zaf-dbe-lurits-2024-v1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25828/esd9-q454
Producer(s)
Department of Basic Education
Collections
South African Department of Basic Education
Metadata
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Nov 05, 2025
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Study authorization
  • Data collection
  • Depositor information
  • Distributor information
  • access_policy
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production
  • Citation

    • Identification

    Survey ID number
    zaf-dbe-lurits-2024-v1
    Title
    Learner Unit Record Information and Tracking System Data 2024
    Country
    Name Country code
    South Africa zaf
    Study type
    Learner Unit Record Information and Tracking System Data
    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.
    Kind of Data
    Administrative records data [adm]
    Unit of Analysis
    Individuals and establishments

    Version

    Version Description
    Version 1
    Version Date
    2025

    Scope

    Notes

    The data is input by school principals into the LURITS Module of the SA-SAMS

    Topics
    Topic
    Learners
    Schools

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage
    The data has national coverage
    Universe
    The data covers Grade R to Grade 12 learners, as well as educators and schools in South Africa

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    Department of Basic Education Government of South Africa
    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    Martin Gustafsson Department of Basic Education Data preparation and anonymisation

    Study authorization

    Authorization Date
    1999
    Agency
    Agency name Affiliation Abbreviation
    Department of Basic Education Government of South Africa DBE
    Authorization Statement
    Data collection by organs of state in South Africa is authorised by the Statistics Act 1999

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2024 2024
    Frequency of Data Collection
    Data is inputted to the LURITS Module of the South African School Administration and Management System, SA-SAMS, four times per year.
    Time periods
    Start date End date
    2024 2024
    Data Collection Mode
    • Other [other]
    Data Collectors
    Name Affiliation Abbreviation Role
    Department of Basic Education Government of South Africa DBE Data collection and processing

    Depositor information

    Depositor
    Name Abbreviation Affiliation URL
    Department of Basic Education DBE Government of South Africa
    Date of Deposit
    2025

    Distributor information

    Distributor
    Organization name Affiliation URL
    DataFirst University of Cape Town
    Date of Distribution
    2025

    access_policy

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation URL Email
    DataFirst Support University of Cape Town support@data1st.org
    Access conditions
    Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial CC-BY-NC access and use license
    Citation requirements
    Department of Basic Education. Learner Unit Record Information and Tracking System 2024 [dataset]. Version 1. Pretoria: DBE [producer], 2025. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/esd9-q454
    Deposit requirements
    Users of the data must send DataFirst a copy of or link to any publication based on the data
    Restrictions
    Research use only

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email URL
    DataFirst Helpdesk University of Cape Town support@data1st.org

    Metadata production

    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    DataFirst University of Cape Town Metadata Record Producer
    Date of Metadata Production
    2025

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version
    v1
    Version date
    2025-11-09

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