{"doc_desc":{"title":"zaf-uct-uctsad-2020-2025-v1","producers":[{"name":"DataFirst","abbr":"","affiliation":"University of Cape Town","role":"Metadata producer"}],"prod_date":"2025-08-27"},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"zaf-uct-uctsad-2020-2025-v1","title":"University of Cape Town Student Admissions Data 2020-2025","alternate_title":"UCTSAD 2020-2025"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"University of Cape Town","affiliation":""}],"production_statement":{"producers":[{"name":"DataFirst","abbr":"","affiliation":"University of Cape Town","role":"Data preparation "}]},"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"DataFirst Support","affiliation":"University of Cape Town","email":"support@data1st.org","uri":"www.support.data1st.org"}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Education Data"},"version_statement":{"version":"v1: Edited data, for use in DataFirst's secure Remote Access Data Enclave (RADE)","version_date":"2025-08-28","version_notes":"This set of data files constitutes the third round of University of Cape Town (UCT) admissions data. The series was split in order to lessen computation times. The first round includes data from student applications for the academic years 2006-2014; the second round includes data from student applications for the academic years 2015-2019; and this third round includes data from student applications for the academic years 2020-2025."},"study_info":{"abstract":"The dataset was generated from a set of Excel spreadsheets extracted from an Information and Communication Technology Services (ICTS) administrative database on student applications to the University of Cape Town (UCT). The data in this third part of the series contain information on applications to UCT made between April 2020 and September 2024. In the original form received by DataFirst the data were ill-suited for research purposes. The series represents an attempt at cleaning and organizing the data into a more tractable format.","nation":[{"name":"South Africa","abbreviation":"zaf"}],"analysis_unit":"Individuals","universe":"All individuals who made applications to attend UCT between 2020 and 2025","data_kind":"Administrative records","notes":"Applications: National benchmark test (NBT) scores; secondary school grades; UCT faculty specific internal scores; language scores; application date; scholarship information; family education levels; financial aid eligibility and status; academic program preferences.\nIndividuals: Demographic characteristics; secondary school performance; finely disaggregated geographic information, disability information.\nSecondary Education: Key subject results (percentage or grade\/letter results); year of graduation; school; exemption information; \nTo ensure data confidentiality direct identifiers have been removed from the data and the data is only made available to accredited researchers through DataFirst's Secure Data Service."},"method":{"data_collection":{"data_collectors":[{"name":"UCT Admissions Office","abbr":"","role":"","affiliation":"University of Cape Town "}],"coll_mode":["Other"],"research_instrument":"UCT Application Form (both online and paper format)","sources":[{"name":"","origin":"","characteristics":""}],"coll_situation":"The data are administrative records collected from application forms completed by those applying to study at the University of Cape Town","cleaning_operations":"The version of the data continues the processing done  in a document entitled \"Notes on preparing the UCT Student Admissions Data\" from earlier the series:\n\n1. The application file is assembled from 13 relational tables with respective foreign keys in the application file. The result are that an application becomes the unit of observation uniquely identified by an application ID variable. An applicant, identified by the person ID variable, may have more than one application.  There are a total of 3,196,780 applications between 2020 and 2024.\n2. The person file has each individual uniquely identified by a personl ID variable. Each individual is associated with information on \"work experience\" and \"key subjects\" from separate relational tables also contained in the database.They may be more than one instance of an individual because job roles change over time. Rather, the person file spans the full data range from 2006 to 2019. \n3.In the secondary school subjects file a person ID  are the row entries associated with secondary school subjects in the columns. These subjects are quite specific and the data allows the researcher to distinguish between, for example, higher grade accounting and standard grade accounting. It also allows the researcher to identify the educational authority issuing the qualification e.g. Cambridge Internal Examinations (CIE) versus National Senior Certificate (NSC). This file spans 2020 to 2024. \n4. The tertiary education file is the smallest of the four data files. There are multiple entries for each person in this dataset. Each row entry contains information on the year, institution and transcript information and can be associated with a person.This file spans 2020 to 2024."},"analysis_info":{"data_appraisal":"All entries in the housing offer date and NBT AL (Academic Literacy) date variables are spurious."}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"contact":[{"name":"DataFirst","affiliation":"University of Cape Town","email":"support@data1st.org","uri":"support.data1st.org"}],"cit_req":"University of Cape Town Admission Office. University of Cape Town Student Admissions Data 2020-2024 [dataset]. Version 1. Cape Town: University of Cape Town [producer], 2025. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2025."}}},"schematype":"survey"}