{"doc_desc":{"title":"zaf-dbe-nsce-2010-2016-v1.2","producers":[{"name":"DataFirst","abbreviation":"","affiliation":"University of Cape Town","role":"Metadata producer"}],"prod_date":"2020-08-08","version_statement":{"version":"Version 6"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"zaf-dbe-nsce-2010-2016-v1.2","title":"National Senior Certificate Examinations 2010-2016","alt_title":"NSCE 2010-2016"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Department of Basic Education","affiliation":"Government of South Africa"}],"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"DataFirst","affiliation":"University of Cape Town","email":"support@data1st.org","uri":"www.support.data1st.org"}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Administrative Records [ad]","series_info":"Department of Basic Education South Africa. National Senior Certification Examination 2010-2016 [dataset]. Version 1.2. Pretoria: DBE [producer], 2016. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2017. DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.25828\/pcn8-pc32"},"version_statement":{"version":"v1.2 Edited, anonymised dataset for licensed distribution","version_date":"2017-02-06","version_notes":"Version 1 of this dataset was provided by the Department of Basic Education in December 2014. \nVersion 1.1 is this dataset cleaned and checked and converted to Stata. All of the datafiles are of version 1.1 here to reflect the processing done by DataFirst. \nVersion 1.2 introduces years 2014-2016 to the dataset. Datafiles detailing the overall pass rate (by exam centre and gender) are also included for the first time. These datafiles were also included for years 2010-2013 (they were omitted in previous versions). All individual datasets remained versioned as 1.1 (only substantively different insofar as they were processed by DataFirst). The overall dataset is versioned as 1.2."},"study_info":{"topics":[{"topic":"Secondary Education","vocab":"World Bank","uri":""},{"topic":"Girls\u2019 Education","vocab":"World Bank","uri":""}],"abstract":"The National Senior Certificate or NSC is the main school-leaving certificate in South Africa. This certificate is commonly known as the matriculation (matric) certificate, and is obtained after grade 12. The NSC, previously known as the Further Education and Training Certificate or FETC, replaced the Senior Certificate with effect from 2008 and was phased in starting with grade 10 in 2006. The South African Department of Basic Education provided this data for research use.","coll_dates":[{"start":"2010-11","end":"2016-11","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"South Africa","abbreviation":"zaf"}],"geog_coverage":"The data has national coverage","geog_unit":"The lowest geographical unit is district","analysis_unit":"Institutions","data_kind":"Administrative records","notes":"The dataset provides data on type of school and examination centre, subjects, and grades obtained, as well as the learners' gender."},"method":{"data_collection":{"coll_mode":["Other [oth]"]}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"contact":[{"name":"DataFirst","affiliation":"University of Cape Town","email":"support@data1st.org","uri":"www.support.data1st.org"}],"cit_req":"Department of Basic Education South Africa. National Senior Certification Examination 2010-2016 [dataset]. Version 1.2. Pretoria: DBE [producer], 2016. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2017. DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.25828\/pcn8-pc32","conditions":"Licensed use files, available for non-commercial use only"}}},"schematype":"survey"}