PISA 2018 Database
Introduction
From this page you can download the PISA 2018 dataset with the full set of responses from individual students, school principals, teachers and parents. These files will be of use to statisticians and professional researchers who would like to undertake their own analysis of the PISA 2018 data. The files available on this page include questionnaires, codebooks, data files in SAS™ and SPSS™ formats, and compendia.
The main data files will include: the student-questionnaire data file (which also includes estimates of student performance and parent-questionnaire data), the school-questionnaire data file, the teacher-questionnaire data file, the cognitive item data file and a file with questionnaire timing data. These files include countries/economies/subregions that fully met adjudication criteria.
Upon request, an additional separate dataset for Spain will be made available. The dataset includes student identifiers, information about the testing week, and a separate set of plausible values that do not use information from reading fluency items. See PISA 2018 Results Volume I Annex A9 for details. For queries about the separate dataset, contact edu.pisa@oecd.org. A list of all recipients of the separate dataset will be shared with Spain’s PISA National Centre.
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Questionnaires
Below are the master questionnaires administered to students who sat the computer-based assessment; each country translated these questionnaires into their own language(s). These master questionnaires are also available in French. Students who sat the paper-based assessment also completed questionnaires that can be found via the following links: English and French.
- Student questionnaire administered to students
- Student questionnaire (une heure version) administered to low-performing students
- Well-being questionnaire administered to students
- Educational career questionnaire administered to students
- Financial literacy questionnaire administered to students
- ICT familiarity questionnaire administered to students
- School questionnaire administered to school principals
- Teacher questionnaire administered to teachers of the test language
- Teacher questionnaire administered to other teachers
- Parent questionnaire administered to parents (via paper)
Codebook and Compendia
Compendia
- Questionnaire items (42.8 MB)
- Questionnaire items (Financial literacy - 12.8MB)
- Cognitive items (19.3 MB)
- Cognitive items (Financial literacy - 4.3 MB)
SAS (TM) Data Files (compressed)
Databases including Global Competence variables were uploaded in October 2020.
- Student questionnaire data files (597 MB)
- School questionnaire data file (3.7 MB)
- Teacher questionnaire data file (17.3 MB)
- Cognitive item data file (584 MB)
- Moscow City data file (23.6 MB)
- Questionnaire timing data files (184 MB)
- Additional data file for Viet Nam* (PVs and cognitive) (2.1 MB)
- Financial literacy data file (249 MB)
- Cognitive items total time/visits data file (193 MB) See PISA 2018 Technical Report Annex K for details
SPSS (TM) Data Files (compressed)
Databases including Global Competence variables were uploaded in October 2020.
- Student questionnaire data file (489 MB)
- School questionnaire data file (3.1 MB)
- Teacher questionnaire data file (12.8 MB)
- Cognitive item data file (466 MB)
- Moscow City data file (20 MB)
- Questionnaire timing data files (188 MB)
- Additional data file for Viet Nam* (PVs and Cognitive) (1.1 MB)
- Financial literacy data file (206 MB)
- Cognitive items total time/visits data file (180 MB) See PISA 2018 Technical Report Annex K for details
* Due to issues identified during data adjudication, caution is required when analysing these data. For further information, see Annexes A4 and A6 of PISA 2018 Results (Volume I): What Students Know and Can Do and Chapter 14 of PISA 2018 Technical Report.