Subject	Education, Psychometrics
Specific subject area	Parental Engagement
Type of data	Table, Figure, Text
How data were acquired	Online Survey
Data format	Raw and Analysed Data, Descriptive Statistics
Parameters for data collection	Countries, Location: Area, Parent/carer Gender, Parent/carer Age, Parent/carer years of schooling, Family socioeconomic status, Children's Gender, Children's Age, Children's years of schooling, Number of children in the household, Parental engagement in school activities, Parental use of technology for social purposes, Parental use of technology for building capacity, Parental use of technology tools/resources provided by schools/governments.
Description of data collection	A series of data were collected via online distributed questionnaires in all participating countries (23 countries). The questionnaire was created in an international English version and subsequently translated and adapted to the official languages and localisms of the participating countries. After the first translation, questionnaires were back-translated into English, the equivalence of the questionnaire in the target languages was evaluated and relevant adjustments made. The questionnaires were then distributed through the networks of the participating institutions in each country. The ICIPES target population was parents/caregivers of children between 6 and 16 years old, living with their child and between grade 1 and 13 that represents between 1 and 13 years of schooling, counting from the beginning of Level 1 of the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED). An intended sample of at least 200 parents was established and countries not reaching this target were flagged. The international English version of the questionnaire can be accessed here: http://dx.doi.org/10.17632/kvvdgvs8zs.2. Due to confidentiality agreements, all details of interviewees’ personal particulars are excluded.
Data source location	Data were collected from 4658 parents/caregivers across 23 countries (Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania Zanzibar, China (Mainland, Hong Kong and Macao), Japan, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, The United States) in 5 regions (Africa, East Asia, Europe, South Asia and America).
Data accessibility	Repository name: Mendeley Data Repository: http://dx.doi.org/10.17632/kvvdgvs8zs.2