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We are looking for a Chief Research Officer or Senior Research Officer to join us on a fixed-term contract, where you will play a key role in advancing the AFLEARN Data Hub.

We require a Senior Data Analyst. In this role, you will manage data and engage with users within the Enclave while building relationships with depositors and service providers and training junior staff.

The University of Cape Town's, ZivaHub has been awarded the CoreTrustSeal Certification. DataFirst was a forerunner in achieving the certification, becoming the first African data repository to receive the CoreTrustSeal in 2018.

Data for all years of the Department of Basic Education’s Early Grade Reading Study are now available from our data site. Some key findings are that teacher coaching is effective, and the language used in learning is important.

The second one-week residential course will be held at the University of Cape Town from 9 to 13 June 2025. This five-day course aims to improve your skills in data cleaning, data analysis, data interpretation and the communication of resear

We invite applications for a postdoctoral position to work in the AFLEARN Data Hub. The successful candidate will be involved in original empirical research; collating and analysing large-scale African foundational learning data; publishing

In partnership with DataFirst, the WORLD Policy Analysis Center is thrilled to announce the release of open access longitudinal quantitative measures of laws and policies for African countries that lay the foundation for equal opportunities

AFLEARN’s inaugural one-week residential course took place from 4 to 8 November 2024, focusing on maximising the impact of foundational learning data.

In March 2024 Professor Cally Ardington took over the Directorship of DataFirst, succeeding Professor Martin Wittenberg, who led DataFirst with distinction for 13 years.

Lynn Woolfrey, Manager of Data Services and Operations at DataFirst, was a Speaker at the Make Data Count Summit 2024 on the 5th and 6th of September.

On Friday, October 27th, DataFirst and UCT’s School of Economics hosted a conference to honour the lifetime contributions of Professor Martin Wittenberg to economics, and more broadly to quantitative social science, in South Africa.

The last Quarterly Labour Force Survey indicates that 35.3% of adults are unemployed in SA but some experts argue that the survey has become skewed. Xoli Mngambi asks Prof Martin Wittenberg if the figures can be trusted. View the interview

Studies have investigated this disorder during COVID.

DataFirst has provided the world with open access to socioeconomic data from African countries and trained African data analysts since 2001.

The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) research data service DataFirst has become the only internationally-certified African repository, after being awarded a CoreTrustSeal endorsement.

The African Centre of Excellence for Inequalities Research (ACEIR) was launched under the banner of the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA).