Service Delivery Indicators Education Survey 2013 - Harmonized Public Use Data
Nigeria, 2013 - 2014
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Service Delivery Indicators Education Survey 2013 - Harmonized Public Use Data
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Nigeria | NGA |
This survey is part of the Service Delivery Indicators (SDI) project, an initiative led by the World Bank. SDI surveys track the quality of service delivery in primary schools and frontline health facilities across Africa and other regions of the world. The indicators can be used to track progress within and across countries over time and aim to enhance the active monitoring of service delivery to increase public accountability and good governance. Ultimately, the goal of the program is to support policymakers, citizens, service providers, donors, and other stakeholders in enhancing the quality of service delivery and improve development outcomes.
Since the inception of the initiative in 2010, twenty-six surveys have been completed in twelve countries in Africa, capturing the health and primary education service delivery experience of over 500 million people. The surveys have been extended in Africa (with SDIs in the pipeline or envisioned in Benin, DRC, Cameron, Madagascar, Ethiopia, Cote D’Ivoire, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Malawi, and Mali) and beyond: data collection for the first SDI surveys in Latin America (Guatemala), East Asia/Pacific (Indonesia), Europe and Central Asia (Armenia, Moldova and Ukraine), Middle East and North Africa (Iraq), and South Asia (Bhutan) are underway or being considered.
With the exception of Module 3 (school finances), the data distributed here were harmonized to a common standard to facilitate comparisons across countries and over time. The data was also anonymized to preserve the confidentiality of the data of respondents. The harmonization and anonymization work were conducted by the SDI team at the World Bank.
SDI surveys are documented in the Microdata Library as Service Delivery Indicators Health Surveys and Service Delivery Indicators Education Surveys.
The Education SDIs include teacher effort, teacher knowledge and ability, and the availability of key inputs (for example, textbooks, basic teaching equipment, and infrastructure such as blackboards and toilets). The indicators provide a snapshot of the learning environment and the key resources necessary for students to learn.
Nigeria Service Delivery Indicators Education Survey was implemented in 2013 by the World Bank and the Research Triangle Institute International. The survey implementation was preceded by consultations with stakeholders in Nigeria to adapt instruments to the country context while maintaining comparability across countries. In addition, the implementation was done with close collaboration with the Universal Basic Education Commission, and in close coordination with the relevant state authorities (i.e. State Ministries of Education, and the State Universal Education Boards where they existed). Data was collected from primary schools in four states (Anambra, Bauchi, Ekiti, and Niger) using personal interviews and provider assessments. A total of 760 randomly selected public and private schools (190 per state) were surveyed, with 2,435 and 5,754 teachers assessed for knowledge and effort respectively. The sample was selected to make the survey representative at the State level, allowing for disaggregation by provider type (private/public) and location (rural/urban).
Sample survey data [ssd]
Schools, teachers, students.
Version
v02, harmonized and anonymized data for public distribution.
Module 3 (School Management/Finances) was added to the collection. It is important to note that module 3’s variables were not harmonized to a common standard. Given different educational (and administrative) structures in each SDI country, questions for module 3 are uniquely designed according to the country’s interests and context. Nonetheless, the dataset was still subject to a thorough anonymization process like the rest of the datasets added to the collection.
Compared to v01, v02 changes include:
- Data reorganized by the unit of analysis (school, teacher, pupil).
- New round of data cleaning, including: renaming and relabeling variables, fixing incorrect category values, fixing incorrect value labels, adding variables from original datasets absent in the previous version, converting variables into proper variable type, deleting analysis/supervision variables, fixing and recategorizing missing observations, reordering variables to reflect instrument structure.
- Addition of anonymized variables from module 3. Module 3 was not initially included in the previous version as the context-related uniqueness of school financial information collected in each country does not allow for harmonization.
- New round of data harmonization (with the exception of module 3) and anonymization. For more details on the anonymization process, please refer to the Anonymization Protocol included as part of this collection’s documentation.
Scope
The core Education Service Delivery Indicators are:
- Teacher Effort:
- School absence rate
- Classroom absence rate
- Time spent teaching per day
- Teacher Knowledge and Ability:
- Minimum knowledge among teachers
- Availability of Inputs:
- Infrastructure availability
- Equipment availability
- Share of pupils with textbooks
- Observed pupil-teacher ratio
The survey also tests grade 4 pupils on mathematics, linguistics and non-verbal reasoning. Additionally, direct observations are made to assess firsthand classroom conditions as well as school inputs and infrastructure that teachers and students have readily available.
SDI instruments also include modules on school's finances and staff/teacher rosters that include their qualifications and demographic information.
Coverage
Four states: Anambra, Bauchi, Ekiti, and Niger.
All primary schools.
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Obert Pimhidzai | The World Bank |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Safaa Amer | Research Triangle Institute International | Team leader |
| Name |
|---|
| European Union |
| William and Flora Hewlett Foundation |
Sampling
The sampling strategy was designed aiming to produce state representative estimates and estimating a proportion with an absolute error of three percentage points for a variable proportion of 0.5 (i.e., has highest variance) with 95 percent degree of confidence per state (equal number used for state).
The strata were constructed according to ownership, urban/rural, and socioeconomic poverty status. The allocation was made in proportion to size for each sub-stratum within public and private. Within strata, simple random sampling was used. Finally, replacement schools were preselected, with a predetermined replacement order within strata.
A total of 190 schools were sampled from each of the four states (Anambra, Bauchi, Ekiti, and Niger).
The target population is all public primary-level school children. Since parts of the school questionnaire were administered to teachers and pupils at the grade four level, all public schools with at least one grade four class formed the sampling frame. The sample frame was created using the list of public schools from UBEC (Universal Basic Education Commission) and private schools from states.
None.
SDI survey estimates must be properly weighted using a sampling weight or expansion factor to estimate representativeness of the population of interest.
School, teacher, and pupil-level sampling weights are stored in the "NGA_2013_EDU_Weights.dta" file.
Survey instrument
The SDI Education Survey Questionnaire consists of six modules:
Module 1: School Information - Administered to the head of the school to collect information on school type, facilities, school governance, pupil numbers, and school hours. It includes direct observations of school infrastructure by enumerators.
Module 2a: Teacher Absence and Information - Administered to the headteacher and individual teachers to obtain a list of all schoolteachers, to measure teacher absence and to collect information on teacher characteristics (this module was not included in this dataset).
Module 2b: Teacher Absence and Information - Unannounced visit to the school to assess absence rate.
Module 3: School Finances - Administered to the headteacher to collect information on school finances (this data is unharmonized).
Module 4: Classroom Observation - An observation module to assess teaching activities and classroom conditions.
Module 5: Pupil Assessment - A test of pupils to have a measure of pupil learning outcomes in mathematics and language in grade four.
Module 6: Teacher Assessment - A test of teachers covering mathematics and language subject knowledge and teaching skills.
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2013-07-01 | 2014-01-31 |
| Start date | End date |
|---|---|
| 2013 | 2013 |
| Name |
|---|
| Research Triangle Institute International |
Data processing
Data entry was done using CSPro; quality control was performed in Stata.
Depositor information
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Service Delivery Indicators Team | HD Practice Group, The World Bank |
Data Access
| Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? | Confidentiality declaration text |
|---|---|
| yes | Details about the anonymization process can be found in the documentation provided with these datasets. |
The harmonized, anonymized datasets are available as public files (for use under a License).
Researchers who feel that they need non-anonymized data should contact sdi@worldbank.org with a statement of research objectives and a rationale for why they require such data. That will start the Research Use File discussion.
Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:
- the Identification of the Primary Investigator
- the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
- the survey reference number
- the source and date of download
Example:
Obert Pimhidzai, The World Bank. Nigeria Service Delivery Indicators Education Survey (SDI-E) 2013 - Harmonized Public Use Data, Ref. NGA_2013_SDI-E_v01_M_v02_A_PUF. Dataset downloaded from [URL] on [date]
Disclaimer and copyrights
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|
| SDI team | HD Practice Group, The World Bank | sdi@worldbank.org |
Metadata production
DDI_NGA_2013_SDI-E_v01_M_v02_A_PUF_WB
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Development Data Group | World Bank | Documentation of the Study |
2021-03-02
Metadata version
Version 2 (February 2021).
This version differs from the original version as it includes:
- Data reorganized by unit of analysis (school, teacher, pupil, time-on-task).
- New round of data cleaning.
- New round of data harmonization and anonymization.
- Addition of anonymized variables from module 3 on School Management/Finances.
The metadata and documentation included in this version reflect and explain these changes.