Public Education Institutions by District
Data as of 2022Number of primary, secondary, and tertiary public education institutions at national, state, and district level.
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This dataset is tabulated from school-level administrative records maintained by the Ministry of Education Malaysia via the Education Management Information System (EMIS).
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Dataset description
Number of primary, secondary, and tertiary public education institutions at national, state, and district level.
Variable definitions
- Date
- State
- District
- Education Stage
- School Type
- Number of Schools
Name in Dataset | Variable | Definition |
|---|---|---|
date (Date) | Date | Date in YYYY-MM-DD format, with MM-DD set to 01-01 as the data is at annual frequency |
state (Categorical) | State | One of 16 states, or Malaysia for national-level data |
district (Categorical) | District | One of 160 administrative districts, or 'All Districts' for state-level data |
stage (Categorical) | Education Stage | Either primary, secondary, or tertiary education |
type (Categorical) | School Type | Type of public school or institution |
schools (Integer) | Number of Schools | Number of schools or institutions |
Last updated:
01 Sept 2024, 12:00
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Data source(s)
- Ministry of Education
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This data is made open under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). A copy of the license is available Here.
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Connect directly to the data with Python.
# If not already installed, do: pip install pandas fastparquet
import pandas as pd
URL_DATA = 'https://storage.data.gov.my/education/schools_district.parquet'
df = pd.read_parquet(URL_DATA)
if 'date' in df.columns: df['date'] = pd.to_datetime(df['date'])
print(df)Sample OpenAPI query
The following code is an example of how to make an API query to retrieve the data catalogue mentioned above. You can use different programming languages by switching the code accordingly. For a complete guide on possible query parameters and syntax, please refer to the official Open API Documentation.
import requests
import pprint
url = "https://api.data.gov.my/data-catalogue?id=schools_district&limit=3"
response_json = requests.get(url=url).json()
pprint.pprint(response_json)
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