Dataset of Child schooling/ Out-of-school children in households in Kwara State, Nigeria

This article presents data from the survey of 1120 households across the three senatorial districts in Kwara State, Nigeria, in 2022. The data has information on the head of house-holds, individuals in the households, household demographic characteristics, community characteristics, education, house-hold head employment status, and the standard of living. The questionnaire includes both open-ended and close-ended questions.The data is available in excel, and the coding explanation/ interpretation is presentable in a table. This data is important for studies on child schooling en-rollment, education attainment, and studies of United Na-tions Sustainable Development Goals, precisely goal four (UNSDG4).(c) 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )