The Master datasets comprise of four datasets: on children, schools, teachers and households. These master datasets contain key variables and identifiers which will allow users of the data to determine the progression of sample sizes and attrition of children, households, schools and teachers across the four years of the LEAPS panel data.
The children dataset contains round-by-round status of children's grades, enrollment, promotion etc. It also has variables indicating the panel child belongs to (the first panel being grade 3 children LEAPS started following in 2003, and the second one being 3rd graders followed starting in 2005 i.e. round 3 of the survey) as well as whether child was randomly selected for child questionnaire in class.
The school dataset contains information such as school type, survey status, construction date. Note that there is only one schoolid variable and it is constant across all rounds. To capture the fact that there is merging of some schools going on across the rounds, refer to the school_merged_into and school_merged_with variables. The school_merged_into variable only exists for the small schools that merged into a larger school whereas the school_merged_with variable exists for the larger schools that the smaller schools merged in to.
The teachers dataset contains information such as their round-by-round school, teaching status.
The household dataset contains a Mauza indicator, and a variable on whether the household was surveyed in a particular round.