Since 2014 INEP (Instituto National de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira), the Brazilian government entity responsible for the surveillance of schools, has been collecting and releasing information on an annual basis on the infrastructure of all basic education institutions in the country, regardless of the level of education, locality (rural vs urban) and management model (private or public) (INEP, 2021). Every year, the school's principals, headteachers, or the person in charge must reply to a self-reported survey sent by the INEP. The questionnaire contains 62 questions and should be filled out between June and August, considering the last Wednesday of May as the reference date for data collection (INEP, 2021). The final results are released at the end of January and the beginning of February from the following year. For the year 2020, due to the extraordinary situation of the COVID-19 pandemic, the reference date for collecting the data was postponed to March 11 2020, one day before the national closure of schools was established. Hence, the 2020 BNSC dataset describes the state of schools' infrastructure in Brazil right before they were closed. For 2021 and 2022, the reference date for data collection returned to the original standard (last Wednesday of May of 2021 and 2022). Thus, the 2021 BNSC, which were released on February 18 2022 reflect the impacts of the pandemic and the school closure on the state of schools' infrastructure in Brazil, while the 2022 BNSC released on and February 08 2023 indicates the situation of schools at the end of the pandemic. We adopted the word "pre" to designate the state of schools before the beginning of the pandemic (2020 BNSC), "peri" to refer to the state of schools during the pandemic (2021 BNSC) and "post" to indicate the conditions of schools moving forward from the COVID-19 pandemic (at the end of the pandemic).
Format
A tibble with 21 rows and 36 variables
- year
Year of Survey
- sch_id
Numerical code of the school
- admin
The administration of the school is federal (1); state (2); municipal (3), or private (4). Federal, state, and municipal schools are considered public.
- loc
The school is located in an urban (1) or rural area (2)
- drink_water
The school provides drinking water with quality suitable for human consumption (i.e., ingestion, preparation, and production of food) according to the Brazilian national water quality standards (former Portaria nº 2.914/2011 now Portaria de Consolidação nº5/2017)
- public_water
The water in the school is supplied by a public network .
- borehole_water
The water in the school is supplied by a borehole
- well_water
The water in the school is supplied by a cacimba, cistern, or well
- surface_water
The water in the school is supplied by surface water source
- no_water
There is no water supply in the school
- sewage_rede_publica
The school dispose their sewage into a public sewerage system
- sewage_fossa_septica
The school dispose their sewage into septic tank
- waste_servico_coleta
The solid waste in the school is regularly collected by the public cleaning service
- waste_queima
The solid waste in the school is disposed in an area licensed by environmental agencies, intended to receive solid waste in a planned manner (e.g., landfills)
- waste_enterra
The solid waste in the school is burned or incinerated
- waste_destino_final_publico
The solid waste in the school is buried
- waste_descarta_outra_area
The solid waste in the school is disposed in another area (none of the other options)
- sanitary
The school is equipped with sanitary facilities for personal hygiene/physiological needs
- sanitary_ei
The school is equipped with sanitary facilities for children 0 to 5 years old
- sanitary_pne
The school is equipped with disability-friendly sanitary facilities following the national guidelines (ABNT - NBR 9050)
- sanitary_funcionarios
The school is equipped with sanitary facilities for personal hygiene/physiological needs exclusively for staff
- sanitary_chuveiro
The school is equipped with sanitary facilities or changing room or washing room with appropriate equipment (shower) for bathing, exclusively for students
- qt_mat_bas
Total number of students per school
- pc_girl
Percentage of girls per school
- pc_boy
Percentage of boys per school
- pc_white
Percentage of students that are classified or self-identified as white race/skin color per school
- pc_brown
Percentage of students that are classified or self-identified as black race/skin color per school
- pc_black
Percentage of students that are classified or self-identified as brown race/skin color per school
- pc_indian
Percentage of students that are classified or self-identified as Asian race/skin color per school
- pc_asian
Percentage of students that are classified or self-identified as indigenous race/skin color per school
- pc_nd
Percentage of students that did not declared race/skin color per school
- pc_cre
Percentage of students in daycare (0 - 3 years old)
- pc_pre
Percentage of students in preschool (4 - 5 years old)
- pc_prim_1
Percentage of students in primary education first cycle (6 - 10 years old)
- pc_prim_2
Percentage of students in primary education second cycle (11 - 14 years old)
- pc_sec
Percentage of students in secondary education (15 - 18 years old)