Author: Sebastian Sardon

The ECE test (Evaluacion Censal de Estudiantes) is applied on a yearly basis to all second-grade primary students in Peru. The Ministry of Education (MINEDU) publishes a sample of the ECE dataset, containing around 30% of all scores, in which schools identifiers are encoded.

Public test results are available on the following webpages:

Year	Source	Download Link
2008	MINEDU-ECE 2008	Descargar archivos de Muestra de Control ECE 2008
2009	MINEDU-ECE 2009	Descargar archivos de Muestra de Control ECE 2009
2010	MINEDU-ECE 2010	Descargar archivos de Muestra de Control ECE 2010
2011	MINEDU-ECE 2011	Descargar archivos de Muestra de Control ECE 2011
2012	MINEDU-ECE 2012	Descargar archivos de Muestra de Control ECE 2012
2013	MINEDU-ECE 2013	Descargar archivos de Muestra de Control ECE 2013
2014	MINEDU-ECE 2014	Descargar archivos de Muestra de Control ECE 2014
2015	MINEDU-ECE 2015	Descargar Archivos de Muestra de Control ECE 2015 Primaria
2016	MINEDU-ECE 2016	Descargar archivos

Instructions:
Step 1: Download raw ECE data following the links in the table above. The data is published in SPSS format. Alternatively, the same data translated to Stata format is available here.
Step 2: Clean raw data using the script "Clean ECE (web version).do".

Output dataset available here.

The following figures can be replicated with the dataset:

Information available from the author at sebastiansardonbisso@gmail.com. Suggestions are welcome. This dataset can be augmented with the Censo Escolar, which provides a wide array of school characteristics (e.g. teachers per student in each school). If you are interested in doing so, the author can provide further assistance.