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National Senior Certificate Examinations 2010-2016

South Africa, 2010 - 2016
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Reference ID
zaf-dbe-nsce-2010-2016-v1.2
Producer(s)
Department of Basic Education
Collections
Department of Basic Education
Metadata
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Feb 07, 2018
Last modified
Aug 08, 2020
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Data Collection
  • Data Access
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number

    zaf-dbe-nsce-2010-2016-v1.2
    Title

    National Senior Certificate Examinations 2010-2016
    Country
    Name Country code
    South Africa zaf
    Study type

    Administrative Records [ad]
    Series Information

    Department of Basic Education South Africa. National Senior Certification Examination 2010-2016 [dataset]. Version 1.2. Pretoria: DBE [producer], 2016. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/pcn8-pc32
    Abstract

    The National Senior Certificate or NSC is the main school-leaving certificate in South Africa. This certificate is commonly known as the matriculation (matric) certificate, and is obtained after grade 12. The NSC, previously known as the Further Education and Training Certificate or FETC, replaced the Senior Certificate with effect from 2008 and was phased in starting with grade 10 in 2006. The South African Department of Basic Education provided this data for research use.
    Kind of Data

    Administrative records
    Unit of Analysis

    Institutions

    Version

    Version Description

    v1.2 Edited, anonymised dataset for licensed distribution
    Version Date

    2017-02-06
    Version Notes

    Version 1 of this dataset was provided by the Department of Basic Education in December 2014.
    Version 1.1 is this dataset cleaned and checked and converted to Stata. All of the datafiles are of version 1.1 here to reflect the processing done by DataFirst.
    Version 1.2 introduces years 2014-2016 to the dataset. Datafiles detailing the overall pass rate (by exam centre and gender) are also included for the first time. These datafiles were also included for years 2010-2013 (they were omitted in previous versions). All individual datasets remained versioned as 1.1 (only substantively different insofar as they were processed by DataFirst). The overall dataset is versioned as 1.2.

    Scope

    Notes

    The dataset provides data on type of school and examination centre, subjects, and grades obtained, as well as the learners' gender.
    Topics
    Topic Vocabulary
    Secondary Education World Bank
    Girls’ Education World Bank

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    The data has national coverage
    Geographic Unit

    The lowest geographical unit is district

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    Department of Basic Education Government of South Africa

    Data Collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2010-11 2016-11
    Mode of data collection
    • Other [oth]

    Data Access

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation URL Email
    DataFirst University of Cape Town www.support.data1st.org support@data1st.org
    Access conditions

    Licensed use files, available for non-commercial use only
    Citation requirements

    Department of Basic Education South Africa. National Senior Certification Examination 2010-2016 [dataset]. Version 1.2. Pretoria: DBE [producer], 2016. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/pcn8-pc32

    Contacts

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

    Metadata production

    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    DataFirst University of Cape Town Metadata producer
    Date of Metadata Production

    2020-08-08

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 6
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