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Learner Unit Record Information and Tracking System Data 2017-2021

South Africa, 2017 - 2021
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Reference ID
ZAF_2017-2021_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
  • Data collection
  • Depositor information
  • Distributor information
  • Data Access
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number

    ZAF_2017-2021_LURITS_v01_M
    Title

    Learner Unit Record Information and Tracking System Data 2017-2021
    Abbreviation or Acronym

    LURITS 2017-21
    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

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2017 2021
    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
    2017 2021
    Mode of data collection
    • 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 https://www.education.gov.za/
    Date of Deposit

    2025

    Distributor information

    Distributor
    Organization name Affiliation URL
    DataFirst University of Cape Town https://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za/
    Date of Distribution

    2025

    Data Access

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation URL Email
    DataFirst Support University of Cape Town support.data1st.org 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, LURITS, Data 2017-2021[dataset]. Pretoria: DBE [producer], 2022. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/tbnz-7152
    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 support.data1st.org

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_ZAF_2017-2021_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-2017-2021-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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