Learner Unit Record Information and Tracking System Data 2017-2021
South Africa, 2017 - 2021
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ZAF_2017-2021_LURITS_v01_M
Learner Unit Record Information and Tracking System Data 2017-2021
LURITS 2017-21
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| South Africa | ZAF |
Administrative Records, Other [ad/oth]
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.
Administrative records data [adm]
Individuals and establishments
Version
Version 01
2025
Scope
The data is input by school principals into the LURITS Module of the SA-SAMS
| Topic |
|---|
| Learners |
| Schools |
Coverage
The data has national coverage
The data covers Grade R to Grade 12 learners, as well as educators and schools in South Africa
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Department of Basic Education | Government of South Africa |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Martin Gustafsson | Department of Basic Education | Data preparation and anonymisation |
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2017 | 2021 |
Data is inputted to the LURITS Module of the South African School Administration and Management System, SA-SAMS, four times per year
| Start date | End date |
|---|---|
| 2017 | 2021 |
- Other [other]
| Name | Affiliation | Abbreviation | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Department of Basic Education | Government of South Africa | DBE | Data collection and processing |
Depositor information
| Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation | URL |
|---|---|---|---|
| Department of Basic Education | DBE | Government of South Africa | https://www.education.gov.za/ |
2025
Distributor information
| Organization name | Affiliation | URL |
|---|---|---|
| DataFirst | University of Cape Town | https://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za/ |
2025
Data Access
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| DataFirst Support | University of Cape Town | support.data1st.org | support@data1st.org |
Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial CC-BY-NC access and use license
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
Users of the data must send DataFirst a copy of or link to any publication based on the data
Research use only
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| DataFirst Helpdesk | University of Cape Town | support@data1st.org | support.data1st.org |
Metadata production
DDI_ZAF_2017-2021_LURITS_v01_M
| 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 |
2025
Metadata 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.