DISTRIBUTION AND PREDICTIVE OWNERSHIP OF PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN TANZANIA MAINLAND

Primary Education, Teachers Distribution, School ownership, Logistic regression

Abstract

This study attempted to explore the distribution of primary schools and the predictive ownership of primary school
teachers in Tanzania's Mainland. The dataset used in this study was collected in 2016 by the Tanzania National Bureau
of Statistics. To attain the objectives of this study the descriptive statistical analysis and logistic regression model were
adopted. A total of 17,094 schools were included in the study. The findings revealed that there was an unequal
distribution of primary schools as well as primary school teachers in Tanzania's Mainland. Tanga was the region with
many government primary schools (992) and Dar es Salaam was the region with many non-government schools (245).
Katavi was the region with few government primary schools (175) and non-government schools (2). There were more
permanent female teachers (104052) than permanent male teachers (98028) while in the case of the temporary teachers,
males (2660) were more than females (1970). Also, the data showed that 94.1% of all schools were owned by the
government. The logistic regression results indicated that the permanent female teachers were negatively connected
with non-government schools while the permanent and temporary male teachers were likely to be in non-government
schools. The logistic regression model successfully predicted the school ownership for 13663 schools with a reasonably
high accuracy of 94.75%