Database - PISA 2006

Downloadable Data

From this page you can download the PISA 2006 dataset with the full set of responses from individual students, school principals and parents. These files will be of use to statisticians and professional researchers who would like to undertake their own analysis of the PISA 2006 data. The files available on this page include questionnaires, data files in ASCII format, codebooks, compendia and SAS and SPSS control files in order to process the data.

To download a file, right click on a link and choose "Save Target As..." in Internet Explorer or "Save Link As..." in Mozilla Firefox. Please note that some of data set TXT files are very large.

Questionnaires

Student questionnaire

School questionnaire

Parent questionnaire

Information Communication Technology questionnaire

Codebooks

Codebook for student questionnaire data file

Codebook for school questionnaire data file

Codebook for parent questionnaire data file

Codebook for cognitive and attitude item response data file

Codebook for scored cognitive and attitude item response data file

SAS^TM control files

SAS syntax to read in student questionnaire data file

SAS syntax to read in school questionnaire data file

SAS syntax to read in parent questionnaire data file

SAS syntax to read in cognitive and attitude item response data file

SAS syntax to read in scored cognitive and attitude item response data file

SPSS^TM control files

SPSS syntax to read in student questionnaire data file

SPSS syntax to read in school questionnaire data file

SPSS syntax to read in parent questionnaire data file

SPSS syntax to read in cognitive and attitude item response data file

SPSS syntax to read in scored cognitive and attitude item response data file

Data sets in TXT format (compressed)

Student questionnaire data file (151 MB)

School questionnaire data file (1 MB)

Parent questionnaire data file (3 MB)

Cognitive and attitude item response data file (38 MB)

Scored cognitive and attitude item response data file (22 MB)

Compendia

The compendia provide the distribution of students according to the variables collected through the student, information communication technology, parent and school questionnaires. The performance means per category are also provided.

Compendium for the student questionnaire

Compendium for the school questionnaire

Compendium for the parent questionnaire

Compendium for the ICT questionnaire

Compendium for the cognitive item responses (Word)

Compendium for the cognitive item responses (Excel)

Compendium for the attitude item responses (Word)

Compendium for the attitude item responses (Excel)

CBAS data

Compressed SPSS data file with abilities on the Computer-Based Assessment of Science for students from three countries

SPSS^TM and SAS^TM are separate software packages

For queries about the PISA 2006 database and associated files contact [email protected]