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

Name: Pakistan tehsil 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 and level, and school counts, one row per tehsil (498 of 553 ADM3 polygons).

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Source: Adaad school layer (schools_pk) × WorldPop 2020 × Data Darbar ADM3 polygons
Rows in this release: 498
Units: km, per cent
Catalogue generated: 2026-09-13

Definitions and limitations

The tehsil version of school_access_district, by the same method: population-weighted median straight-line km (Lambert conformal conic, 1 km WorldPop 2020 cells) to the nearest school of that sex and level in the cell's own REGION network — a tehsil's residents can use the next tehsil's schools, so its distance is not a function of its own school count. gap_*_km = girls − boys (positive = girls further). *_over5km_pct is the population share more than 5 km away. *_schools count schools whose point falls in the polygon. coverage_pct is the share of the polygon's population that lay inside the analysed region; rows under 50% (slivers of the merged districts and of AJK's other districts inside a neighbouring district polygon) are dropped, so 498 tehsils carry data and 55 do not. The 553 polygons are the Mouza Census ADM3 frame (mouza_crosswalk.dd_id) rather than PBS's 2023 tehsils. Read coord_tier before comparing across provinces: Punjab's positions are geocoded (half at settlement precision, the rest at markaz or tehsil centroids), so Punjab tehsil values are a district-scale picture, not a local one. Sindh networks are by name designation; the designated gap is an upper bound (see school_access_district's mixed and attendance columns). This is the table the map's Education → Distance to School layer draws.

Pakistan tehsil distance to the nearest girls' and boys' school — data dictionary
Field	Type	Definition
dd_id	VARCHAR	ADM3 identifier — joins mouza_crosswalk.dd_id, tehsil_satellite.tehsil_id
tehsil	VARCHAR	tehsil name in the ADM3 frame
district_key	VARCHAR	Data Darbar district key
region	VARCHAR	analysis region
coord_tier	VARCHAR	coverage grade of the region's positions (A to C)
pop	BIGINT	population of the analysed cells (WorldPop 2020)
coverage_pct	DOUBLE	share of the polygon's population analysed
girls_primary_km	DOUBLE	median km to nearest girls' school, any level
boys_primary_km	DOUBLE	as girls_, boys
gap_primary_km	DOUBLE	girls − boys, any level
girls_middle_km	DOUBLE	median km to nearest girls' middle-or-above school
boys_middle_km	DOUBLE	as girls_, boys
gap_middle_km	DOUBLE	girls − boys, middle
girls_high_km	DOUBLE	median km to nearest girls' high-or-above school
boys_high_km	DOUBLE	as girls_, boys
gap_high_km	DOUBLE	girls − boys, high
girls_middle_over5km_pct	DOUBLE	population more than 5 km from a girls' middle-plus school, %
boys_middle_over5km_pct	DOUBLE	as girls_, boys
girls_primary_schools	BIGINT	girls' schools (any level) inside the polygon
boys_primary_schools	BIGINT	as girls_, boys
girls_middle_schools	BIGINT	girls' middle-plus schools inside the polygon
boys_middle_schools	BIGINT	as girls_, boys
girls_high_schools	BIGINT	girls' high-plus schools inside the polygon
boys_high_schools	BIGINT	as girls_, boys
girls_share_middle_pct	DOUBLE	girls' share of middle-plus schools inside the polygon, %
release	VARCHAR	release tag

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

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