6.26 EDUCATION FACILITIES

Data ID

Description:

Location of schools in 2001

Chapter:

6 People, Services and Infrastructure

File name:

Education facilities

File type:

Arcview shapefile

Geographical area:

Namibia

Keywords:

school

education

facilities

infrastructure

Notes on data, analysis and

Point shapefile depicting the locations (with attributes) of 1535 schools across Namibia. Data are for 2001.

compilation:

Data quality and organisation

Positional Accuracy:

Mostly GPS points (see attribute field)

Vector/Raster:

Vector

Spatial reference

Projection:

Geographic

Fields

Field name

Field description

LAYER

SCHNAME

School name

CSCHOOL

School code

REG	Region code

SCH_PHASE

Phases offered by school: primary, combined, secondary etc

X_COORD

x oc-ordinate

Y_COORD

y co-ordinate

DOUBLE_SES

yes/no field indicating whether the school runs double sessions

GOVER_PRIV

Government or private school

LEARNERS

Number of learners

TEACHERS

Number of teachers

LT_RATIO

Learner:teacher ratio

GROUPS

Number of classes

GROUP_SIZE

Average class size

LOWEST

Lowest grade offered

HIGHEST

Highest grade offered

Source/Distribution

Data Source:

Ministry of Basic Education, Sport and Culture

Contact:

Online/Offline Address:

Ministry of Basic Education, Sports and Culture.

Government Office Park

Luther Street

Private Bag 13186

Windhoek

Distribution notes:

Unrestricted