Learner Unit Record Information and Tracking System Data 2022-2023

South Africa, 2022 - 2023

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Reference ID

ZAF_2022-2023_LURITS_v01_M

Producer(s)

Department of Basic Education

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

Study website

Created on

Dec 05, 2025

Last modified

Dec 05, 2025

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Identification

Survey ID number

ZAF_2022-2023_LURITS_v01_M

Title

Learner Unit Record Information and Tracking System Data 2022-2023

Abbreviation or Acronym

LURITS 2022-23

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. Individual educator records are also housed on LURITS. The LURITS system is dependent on receiving data from computerized school administration systems. Schools that do not have computerized school administration systems provide paper-based reports to the 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 Gustaffson	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
2022	2023

Frequency of Data Collection

Data is input 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
2022	2023

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

Users of the data must cite the data producer and DataFirst as the data distributor in any research publications based on the data

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

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

Metadata production

DDI Document ID

DDI_ZAF_2022-2023_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

Metadata version

DDI Document version

Identical to a metadata (zaf-dbe-lurits-2022-2023-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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