SOCIO DEMOGRAPHIC DATA FROM MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS FROM THE CITY OF SINCELEJO IN COLOMBIA

Abstract

The database introduced in this article, presents socio-demographic information of a sample of students from the middle and high school level, belonging to 10 educational Institutions from the city of Sincelejo in Colombia. These data generally describe the social, economic, and demographic context in which students coexist, in addition to the academic performance obtained by them at the end of the school year in the mathematics subject. Data was collected through a direct survey. The sample of surveyed students belongs to education grades 6th to 11th, and their ages range from 9 to 20 years. The applied questionnaire consisted of 13 questions related to the age and sex of the students, the socioeconomic conditions of the students and their parents, the places where the students live and whether they were victims of forced displacement in the past, generated by the violence that Colombia has suffered in recent years. This database can be used by other entities or education professionals or government entities, to correlate the students’ socio
demographic characteristics with their performance in math and determine up to what extent, the social condition of the students influences their academic performance in that subject.