Ebikake/basic-education-prioritization-nigeria

Capstone project repository for a data-driven framework for prioritizing public capital allocation to basic education infrastructure across Nigerian states using education need indicators. Yes. Below is the updated README content, refined to reflect the files now uploaded and to clarify that the **project workbook is uploaded**, while the **external raw source files from UBEC/NBS/Budget Office/DMO were not uploaded**. This updates the repository structure and data-source explanation from the pasted README draft. ````markdown # A Data-Driven Framework for Prioritizing Public Capital Allocation to Basic Education Infrastructure across Nigerian States Using Education Need Indicators ## Project Overview This repository contains the datasets, notebooks, model outputs, figures, tables, and documentation for a data analytics capstone project focused on basic education infrastructure prioritization in Nigeria. The project develops a transparent, reproducible, and evidence-based decision-support framework for ranking Nigerian states by relative basic education infrastructure need. The central analytical output is the **Basic Education Need Index (BENI)**, a composite index designed to support public capital allocation decisions across Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. Two versions of BENI are developed: - **BENI-Core**: constructed from UBEC-derived education and infrastructure-pressure indicators. - **BENI-Expanded**: extends BENI-Core by adding an NBS-derived socioeconomic need proxy. The project also uses regression-based machine-learning models to validate whether the BENI scores and rankings can be reproduced from the selected indicators. ## Research Questions The project is guided by the following research questions: 1. Which indicators are most relevant for assessing relative basic education infrastructure need across Nigerian states? 2. How can these indicators be standardized and combined into a composite Basic Education Need Index? 3. How can Nigerian states be prioritized for capital allocation using BENI? 4. How does BENI-based prioritization compare with equal and population-based allocation approaches? 5. How we …