Pakistan district distance to the nearest girls' and boys' school

Name: Pakistan district distance to the nearest girls' and boys' school
Creator: Hiba Sameen
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Distance to the nearest government school by sex, enrolment by sex, and school counts, one row per district (132).

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Source: Adaad school layer (schools_pk) × WorldPop 2020 × Malaria Atlas friction surface; PBS Census 2023 Table 13(b); PSLM 2019-20
Rows in this release: 132
Units: km, walking minutes, per cent
Catalogue generated: 2026-09-13

Definitions and limitations

all_km, boys_km, girls_km are POPULATION-WEIGHTED MEDIAN straight-line distances (Lambert conformal conic, km) from every populated 1 km cell to the nearest school of that network; *_min are walking minutes on the Malaria Atlas friction surface. gap_km = girls_km − boys_km (positive = girls further). Networks are by name designation; for Sindh the same medians under the attendance and girls-or-mixed definitions are in girls_km_attend / girls_km_mixed (the designation gap of 0.8 km falls to zero under attendance). tt_caveat flags districts where the friction surface is unreliable (GB) or mountain/desert cells make minutes an upper bound. *_in_school_pct_5_16 are Census 2023 Table 13(b) enrolment rates (enrolled / population aged 5–16) with successor districts summed into parents, so 123 of the 132 rows carry them. living_standards_deprivation_pslm is the (censored) MPI component; material_deprivation_pslm is an uncensored index from PSLM 2019-20 (no toilet, no flush, no piped water, food insecurity). *_n_schools count schools whose POINT falls in the district polygon (the basis of the piece's Figure 1); schools_listed / _with_coords / _in_analysis count rows by the SOURCE's district. The two bases differ where geocoded points cross a boundary. Distances depend on the whole network, not the district's own schools, so a district with few schools can still be close to the next district's.

Pakistan district distance to the nearest girls' and boys' school — data dictionary
Field	Type	Definition
region	VARCHAR	analysis region
district_key	VARCHAR	Data Darbar district key
district	VARCHAR	display name
all_km	DOUBLE	median km to nearest school, either sex
boys_km	DOUBLE	median km to nearest boys' school
girls_km	DOUBLE	median km to nearest girls' school
gap_km	DOUBLE	girls_km − boys_km
all_min	DOUBLE	median walking minutes, any school
boys_min	DOUBLE	median walking minutes, boys' school
girls_min	DOUBLE	median walking minutes, girls' school
gap_min	DOUBLE	girls_min − boys_min
tt_caveat	VARCHAR	travel-time caveat, if any
girls_in_school_pct_5_16	DOUBLE	Census 2023 Table 13(b): girls 5–16 enrolled / girls 5–16, %
boys_in_school_pct_5_16	DOUBLE	Census 2023 Table 13(b): boys 5–16 enrolled / boys 5–16, %
enrol_gap_pp_boys_minus_girls	DOUBLE	boys_in_school_pct_5_16 − girls_in_school_pct_5_16, percentage points
living_standards_deprivation_pslm	DOUBLE	MPI living-standards deprivation share (censored), PSLM 2019-20
material_deprivation_pslm	DOUBLE	uncensored material deprivation index, PSLM 2019-20
schools_listed	BIGINT	rows in schools_pk whose source district is this district
schools_with_coords	BIGINT	of which positioned
schools_in_analysis	BIGINT	of which in the analysis
boys_high_median_km	DOUBLE	as girls_, boys
boys_middle_median_km	DOUBLE	as girls_, boys
boys_primary_median_km	DOUBLE	as girls_, boys
girls_high_median_km	DOUBLE	median km to nearest girls' high-or-above school
girls_middle_median_km	DOUBLE	median km to nearest girls' middle-or-above school
girls_primary_median_km	DOUBLE	median km to nearest girls' school, any level
boys_high_share_over_5km	DOUBLE	as girls_, boys
boys_middle_share_over_5km	DOUBLE	as girls_, boys
boys_primary_share_over_5km	DOUBLE	as girls_, boys
girls_high_share_over_5km	DOUBLE	share more than 5 km from a girls' high-plus school
girls_middle_share_over_5km	DOUBLE	share more than 5 km from a girls' middle-plus school
girls_primary_share_over_5km	DOUBLE	share of population more than 5 km from a girls' school, any level
girls_primary_n_schools	BIGINT	girls' schools (any level) whose point is inside the district polygon
boys_primary_n_schools	BIGINT	as girls_, boys
girls_middle_n_schools	BIGINT	girls' middle-plus schools inside the polygon (Figure 1)
boys_middle_n_schools	BIGINT	as girls_, boys
girls_high_n_schools	BIGINT	girls' high-plus schools inside the polygon
boys_high_n_schools	BIGINT	as girls_, boys
girls_km_mixed	DOUBLE	Sindh only: girls_km when Mixed schools join the girls' network
boys_km_mixed	DOUBLE	Sindh only: boys_km, boys-or-mixed
gap_km_mixed	DOUBLE	Sindh only: gap under the mixed definition
girls_km_attend	DOUBLE	Sindh only: girls_km when any school enrolling girls counts
boys_km_attend	DOUBLE	Sindh only: boys_km by attendance
gap_km_attend	DOUBLE	Sindh only: gap under the attendance definition
release	VARCHAR	release tag

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Hiba Sameen / Data Darbar. Pakistan district distance to the nearest girls' and boys' school. https://darbar.adaad.org/datasets/school-access-district/. Cite the original source listed above and the catalogue release when reusing this table.

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