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Learner Unit Record Information and Tracking System Data 2024

South Africa, 2024
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Reference ID
ZAF_2024_LURITS_v01_M
Producer(s)
Department of Basic Education
Metadata
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Dec 05, 2025
Last modified
Dec 05, 2025
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Study authorization
  • Data collection
  • Access policy
  • Depositor information
  • Distributor information
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number
    ZAF_2024_LURITS_v01_M
    Title
    Learner Unit Record Information and Tracking System Data 2024
    Abbreviation or Acronym
    LURITS 2024
    Country/Economy
    Name Country code
    South Africa ZAF
    Study type
    Administrative Records, Other [ad/oth]
    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 computerized school administration systems. Schools without computerized 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 01
    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

    Access policy

    Access conditions

    Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial CC-BY-NC access and use license

    Restrictions

    Research use only

    Citation requirements

    Department of Basic Education. Learner Unit Record Information and Tracking System, LURITS, Data 2024 [dataset]. Pretoria: DBE [producer], 2025. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/esd9-q454

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation URL Email
    DataFirst Support University of Cape Town support@data1st.org
    Deposit requirements

    Users of the data must send DataFirst a copy of or link to any publication based on the data

    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

    Contacts

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

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID
    DDI_ZAF_2024_LURITS_v01_M
    Producers
    Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
    DataFirst University of Cape Town

    Metadata Record Producer
    Development Data Group DECDG World Bank Group

    Metadata adapted for World Bank Microdata Library
    Date of Metadata Production
    2025

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version
    Identical to a metadata (zaf-dbe-lurits-2024-v1) published on DataFirst microdata repository (https://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za/dataportal/index.php/catalog). Some of the metadata fields have been edited.
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