Data Quality Audit and Longitudinal Analysis of School Enrollment Dynamics in Ecuadorian Educational Administrative Records (2009–2010 to 2024–2025)

Resumen

Administrative records published through open government initiatives offer opportunities for educational planning, but their scientific use requires explicit quality controls. This descriptive study audits and summarizes Ecuador’s official school administrative repository from 2009–2010 to 2024–2025, comprising 322,602 school-year records and 27 variables. Although syntactic completeness was 100.00 %, the audit identified 724 special territorial records and 3,268 records with enrolled students but zero reported teachers. Between 2023–2024 and 2024–2025, reported enrollment decreased by 95,979 students (-2.28 %), and 81.00 % of comparable cantons registered declines. An operational decision rule classified 21 cantons as verifiable contractions, 10 as verifiable expansions, 190 within an indeterminate no-decision band, and one as an inconsistent interannual record. Fiscal enrollment decreased by 3.51 %, whereas particular (+1.18 %), fiscomisional (+1.63 %), and municipal (+2.28 %) enrollment increased. Rural enrollment declined by 5.58 %, compared with 1.26 % in urban establishments. An interactive dashboard presents national indicators, territorial rankings, filters, and the audited historical series. The results describe where and how much enrollment changed; they do not identify causal mechanisms or individual student trajectories.