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Get Conceito Enade data

Source: R/get-conceito-enade.R
get_conceito_enade.Rd

Downloads and processes the Conceito Enade spreadsheets published by INEP. The Conceito Enade is the course-level quality indicator derived from the performance of graduating students in ENADE, on a continuous scale and in five levels (faixas 1 to 5).

Unlike get_enade(), which returns student-level microdata, this function returns one row per course (or per course unit, before 2015) with the official indicator.

Usage

get_conceito_enade(
  year,
  type = NULL,
  n_max = Inf,
  keep_file = TRUE,
  quiet = FALSE
)

Arguments

year

The year of the indicator (2004-2019, 2021-2023, 2025). There is no 2020 edition (ENADE was not held) and no 2024 edition.

type

Only for 2025, which INEP publishes as two files with their own methodology: "licenciaturas" (Enade das Licenciaturas) or "medicina" (Enade Medicina). Must be NULL for other years.

n_max

Maximum number of rows to read. Default is Inf (all rows).

keep_file

Logical. If TRUE, keeps the downloaded file in cache. Default is TRUE.

quiet

Logical. If TRUE, suppresses progress messages.

Value

A tibble with Conceito Enade data in tidy format.

Details

Unit of observation. Up to 2014 a row is a "course unit": all courses of the same institution, municipality and evaluation area, identified by the institution, municipality and area codes (the number of courses grouped is in a column such as numero_de_cursos_da_unidade). From 2015 on, a row is a course, identified by codigo_do_curso (the e-MEC course code).

Sources by edition.

  • 2004-2006 and 2012-2023: INEP's Conceito Enade spreadsheet.

  • 2007-2011: INEP publishes the Conceito Enade inside the combined Enade/CPC table, so this function returns that table (the same one as get_cpc()). The Conceito Enade is in conceito_enade (2007, 2008) or conceito_enade_faixa (2009-2011).

  • 2025: see type. These files report the share of graduates at or above a proficiency standard and the faixa, with no continuous score.

Important notes:

  • Column names change across editions and are standardized to lowercase with underscores, not harmonized: map them to a common set before stacking years.

  • Faixa and continuous columns are numeric; "SC" (sem conceito) and similar markers become NA.

  • Files are in Excel format (xls/xlsx).

Data dictionary

For detailed information about variables, see INEP's documentation: https://www.gov.br/inep/pt-br/areas-de-atuacao/pesquisas-estatisticas-e-indicadores/indicadores-de-qualidade-da-educacao-superior

See also

Other CPC/IGC functions: get_cpc(), get_igc()

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Conceito Enade 2023
ce <- get_conceito_enade(2023)

# 2025 comes in two files
ce_lic <- get_conceito_enade(2025, type = "licenciaturas")

# a series: one call per year, then harmonize column names
series <- purrr::map(c(2017, 2018, 2019), get_conceito_enade)
} # }