Pakistan school layer validation scorecard

Name: Pakistan school layer validation scorecard
Creator: Hiba Sameen
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Rank agreement between the layer's district distances and the villages' own reports, by region and level.

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Source: PBS Mouza Census 2020 microdata × school_distance_stats
Rows in this release: 18
Units: Vary by field or series; see definitions below.
Catalogue generated: 2026-09-13

Definitions and limitations

Spearman rank correlations across matched districts between the layer's population-weighted median distance to the nearest girls' school and the villages' reported distance (rank_corr_level_girls), between the two shares beyond 5 km (rank_corr_share5_girls), and between the two girls-minus-boys gaps (rank_corr_gap); sign_agree_gap is the share of districts where both sources agree on the SIGN of the gap. Read it as a scorecard: the ordering of districts by how far girls are from school is confirmed (0.65–0.77 nationally at middle and high level); the ordering by the SIZE of the gap is confirmed at primary and middle and only weakly at high level (Balochistan 0.05); the sign of Punjab's gap is not supported (0.31–0.57), because both sources put it within a kilometre of zero. GB has seven districts — treat its rows as indicative.

Pakistan school layer validation scorecard — data dictionary
Field	Type	Definition
region	VARCHAR	All or region
level	VARCHAR	primary \| middle \| high
n	BIGINT	districts compared
rank_corr_level_girls	DOUBLE	Spearman, girls' median km: layer v villages
rank_corr_share5_girls	DOUBLE	Spearman, share beyond 5 km
rank_corr_gap	DOUBLE	Spearman, girls − boys km gap
sign_agree_gap	DOUBLE	share of districts agreeing on the gap's sign
rank_corr_gap_share5	DOUBLE	Spearman, girls − boys share beyond 5 km
release	VARCHAR	release tag

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Hiba Sameen / Data Darbar. Pakistan school layer validation scorecard. https://darbar.adaad.org/datasets/school-validation-summary/. Cite the original source listed above and the catalogue release when reusing this table.

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