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Tertiary (ensino superior) enrollment — multi-source compilation

Source: R/data.R
enrollment_tertiary.Rd

National-level (BR) Brazilian higher-education enrollment from 1907 to 2024, harmonised across seven different primary sources. The dataset is consumed by get_enrollment() when level = "superior". Multiple sources for the same (year, network) are kept on purpose so users can compare competing estimates — pass source = "..." to lock in a specific series.

Usage

enrollment_tertiary

Format

A tibble with approximately 1 350 rows and 16 columns matching the canonical schema (inst/dict/schema.yaml). The tertiary-specific columns are:

level

Always "superior".

network

Administrative dependency: federal, estadual, municipal, publica, privada, plus the private sub-categories (privada_particular / privada_comunitaria_confessional_filantropica pre-2009, privada_lucrativa / privada_nao_lucrativa post-2009), especial, total.

institution_type

INEP/MEC institutional category: university, university_center, faculty, faculty_school_institute, integrated_faculty, integrated_faculty_university_center, technology_center, technology_center_fat, cefet_ifet, isolated_establishment, total.

modality

presencial, ead, or total (available from 2000 onwards).

is_derived

TRUE when the row is a reconstructed total — a computed total combining the in-person enrollment from one source with the EAD enrollment from INEP, used to fix the 2000-2008 transition gap where the original sources excluded EAD from their nominal totals. Filtered out by get_enrollment() unless include_derived = TRUE.

Source

Compilation curated by the package author (Mançano, 2026) from publicly available sources. Raw file: data-raw/sources/tertiary_multisource/data_tertiary_v6_clean.xlsx. ETL: data-raw/03_build_enrollment_tertiary.R.

Primary sources

  • ibge_seculo_xx — Anuários Estatísticos 1908-1980.

  • durham_2005 — Durham (2005).

  • maduro_junior_2007 — Maduro Junior MSc dissertation.

  • kang_paese_felix_2021 — Kang, Paese & Felix RHE paper.

  • inep_sinopse_censup — INEP Sinopse 1995-2008.

  • inep_microdados_censup — INEP microdata 2009-2024.

  • inep_censup_powerbi — INEP Power BI panel.

For derived rows the source column is the concatenation "<presencial_key>+<ead_key>"; the exact composition is documented in source_note.