SACMEQ III Study Data

Typically, SACMEQ results present estimates about the Grade 6 pupil as the unit of analysis. Other results regarding the school, school heads, teachers, etc. are generated from analyses based on pupils as well. Results concerning pupils are usually disaggregated by region, gender, location, and socio-economic status.

Since many professionals analyze SACMEQ data for different purposes, the specific choice of analytic approach depends on the interest of the individual researcher; among the techniques used are:

• Multivariate analysis methods satisfying multilevel models
• Regression methods
• Decomposition of variances through correlation analysis, etc.