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Service Delivery Indicators Education Survey 2012 - Harmonized Public Use Data

Kenya, 2012
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Waly Wane
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Identification

Survey ID Number
KEN_2012_SDI-E_v01_M_v01_A_PUF
Title
Service Delivery Indicators Education Survey 2012 - Harmonized Public Use Data
Country
Name Country code
Kenya KEN
Series Information
This survey is part of the Service Delivery Indicators (SDI) project, an initiative of the World Bank, the African Economic Research Consortium, and the African Development Bank. Started in 2012, SDI tracks performance and quality of service delivery in primary schools and frontline health facilities across Africa. The indicators can be used to track progress within and across countries over time, and aim to enhance active monitoring of service delivery to increase public accountability and good governance. Ultimately, the goal of the program is to help policymakers, citizens, service providers, donors, and other stakeholders enhance the quality of services and improve development outcomes.

The pilot surveys were conducted in Tanzania and Senegal in 2010. In 2012-2013, surveys were conducted in Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Togo and Uganda; in 2014-2016, in Madagascar, Tanzania and Niger. The surveys are repeated every two years.

SDI initiative is a unique 10-year program and the World Bank is the implementing partner for the first five years.

The data distributed here has been harmonized to a common standard to facilitate comparisons across countries and time. The data also has been anonymized to preserve confidentiality of respondents. The harmonization and anonymization work is done by the World Bank's SDI team.

SDI surveys are documented in the Microdata Library as Service Delivery Indicators Health Surveys and Service Delivery Indicators Education Surveys.
Abstract
The Service Delivery Indicators (SDI) are a set of health and education indicators that examine the effort and ability of staff and the availability of key inputs and resources that contribute to a functioning school or health facility. The indicators are standardized allowing comparison between nations and across subnational boundaries over time.

The Education SDIs include teacher effort, teacher knowledge and ability, and the availability of key inputs (for example, textbooks, basic teaching equipment, infrastructure). The indicators provide a snapshot of the learning environment and key resources, which need to be in place for students to learn.

Kenya Service Delivery Indicators Education Survey was implemented in May-July 2012 by Economic Policy Research Center and Kimetrica in close coordination with the World Bank SDI team. The data was collected from a stratified random sample of 239 public and 67 private schools to provide a representative snapshot of the learning environment in both public and private schools. The survey assessed the knowledge of 1,679 primary school teachers, surveyed 2,960 teachers for an absenteeism study and observed 306 grade 4 lessons. In addition, learning outcomes were measured for almost 3,000 grade four students.
Kind of Data
Sample survey data [ssd]
Unit of Analysis
Schools, teachers, students

Version

Version Description
v01, harmonized and anonymized data for public distribution

Scope

Notes
Education Service Delivery Indicators are:

1) Teacher Effort:
- School absence rate
- Classroom absence rate
- Time spent teaching per day

2) Teacher Knowledge and Ability:
- Minimum knowledge in mathematics
- Minimum knowledge in English
- Minimum knowledge in pedagogy

3) Availability of Inputs:
- Minimum infrastructure availability
- Minimum equipment availability
- Share of pupils with textbooks
- Observed pupil-teacher ratio

Coverage

Geographic Coverage
National
Universe
All primary schools

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators
Name Affiliation
Waly Wane The World Bank
Producers
Name Role
Economic Policy Research Center Survey work
Funding Agency/Sponsor
Name
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
The World Bank

Sampling

Sampling Procedure
Detailed information about sampling is available in the attached report (Annex A).
Weighting
Weights are in "fileweights_anon" file.

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection
Start End
2012-05 2012-07
Data Collection Mode
Face-to-face [f2f]
Data Collectors
Name
Kimetrica

Questionnaires

Questionnaires
The SDI Education Survey Questionnaire consists of six modules:

Module 1: School Information - Administered to the head of the school to collect information about school type, facilities, school governance, pupil numbers, and school hours. Includes direct observations of school infrastructure by enumerators.

Module 2a: Teacher Absence and Information - Administered to head teacher and individual teachers to obtain a list of all school teachers, to measure teacher absence and to collect information about teacher characteristics.

Module 2b: Teacher Absence and Information - Unannounced visit to the school to assess absence rate.

Module 3: School Finances - Administered to the head teacher to collect information about school finances (not included in the harmonized data)

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 Processing

Data Editing
Data entry was done using CSPro; quality control was performed in Stata.

Access policy

Contacts
Name Affiliation Email
SDI team The World Bank sdi@worldbank.org
Access conditions
The harmonized, anonymized datasets are available as public use files.

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.
Citation requirements
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,

Waly Wane, The World Bank. Kenya Service Delivery Indicators Education Survey (SDI-E) 2012 - Harmonized Public Use Data, Ref. KEN_2012_SDI-E_v01_M_v01_A_PUF. Dataset downloaded from [URL] on [date].

Metadata production

DDI Document ID
DDI_KEN_2012_SDI-E_v01_M_v01_A_PUF_WB
Producers
Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
Development Data Group DECDG The World Bank Study documentation
Date of Metadata Production
2017-01-06
DDI Document version
v01 (January 2017)