COVID-19 crisis in Cambodia: A dataset containing linked survey and administrative data of ninth-graders in rural areas

Esther Gehrke; Friederike Lenel; Claudia Schupp

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2022.108476

COVID-19 crisis in Cambodia: A dataset containing linked survey and administrative data of ninth-graders in rural areas

Data Brief. 2022 Jul 18:43:108476. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2022.108476. eCollection 2022 Aug.

Authors

Esther Gehrke¹, Friederike Lenel², Claudia Schupp³

Affiliations

¹ Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy, Wageningen University, Wageningen 6706KN, the Netherlands.
² Chairgroup of International Economic Policy, University of Göttingen, Göttingen 37073, Germany.
³ Chairgroup for Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München 80802, Germany.

Abstract

Between 2019 and 2021, we collected detailed administrative data of grade 9 students from 54 lower-secondary schools in rural Cambodia. We also collected phone-survey data from these students in July and August 2020, to understand the implications of the nation-wide lockdown, that was implemented to curb the spread of COVID-19 in March 2020. The administrative data contain information on students' grades, school characteristics and teacher characteristics from the school year 2019-2020, as well as information about the students' enrollment in high school after the end of the school year (January 2021). This information is available for 3258 students. The phone-survey data contains information on students' socio-economic background, parental education and occupation, as well as students' study behavior, time use, educational aspirations and expectations, and perceptions of the COVID-19 crisis. This information is available for 2197 students.

Keywords: COVID-19; Cambodia; Schooling.