This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Advances in Quantitative Ethnography, ICQE 2023, held in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, during October 8-12, 2023. The 33 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: understanding learners and learning; society, culture, identity, and justice; and advances in QE methodologies.