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Educational Attainment Data 1960-1985

Afghanistan, United Arab Emirates, Argentina...and 106 more, 1960 - 1985
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Reference ID
WLD_1960-1985_EAD_v01_M
DOI
https://doi.org/10.48529/nc08-xj45
Producer(s)
Robert J. Barro and Jong-Wha Lee
Collection(s)
Development Research Microdata Fragility, Conflict and Violence
Metadata
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Apr 01, 2011
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Data collection
  • Access policy
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production
  • Citation

    • Identification

    Survey ID number
    WLD_1960-1985_EAD_v01_M
    Title
    Educational Attainment Data 1960-1985
    Country/Economy
    Name Country code
    Afghanistan AFG
    United Arab Emirates ARE
    Argentina ARG
    Australia AUS
    Austria AUT
    Belgium BEL
    Benin BEN
    Bahrain BHR
    Bolivia BOL
    Brazil BRA
    Barbados BRB
    Botswana BWA
    Central African Republic CAF
    Canada CAN
    Switzerland CHE
    Chile CHL
    Cameroon CMR
    Congo, Dem. Rep. COD
    Congo, Rep. COG
    Colombia COL
    Costa Rica CRI
    Cyprus CYP
    Germany DEU
    Dominica DMA
    Denmark DNK
    Algeria DZA
    Ecuador ECU
    Egypt, Arab Rep. EGY
    Spain ESP
    Finland FIN
    Fiji FJI
    France FRA
    United Kingdom GBR
    Ghana GHA
    Gambia, The GMB
    Guinea-Bissau GNB
    Greece GRC
    Guatemala GTM
    Guyana GUY
    Hong Kong SAR, China HKG
    Honduras HND
    Haiti HTI
    Hungary HUN
    Indonesia IDN
    India IND
    Ireland IRL
    Iran, Islamic Rep. IRN
    Iraq IRQ
    Iceland ISL
    Israel ISR
    Italy ITA
    Jamaica JAM
    Jordan JOR
    Japan JPN
    Kenya KEN
    Kuwait KWT
    Liberia LBR
    Sri Lanka LKA
    Lesotho LSO
    Mexico MEX
    Mali MLI
    Malta MLT
    Myanmar MMR
    Mozambique MOZ
    Mauritius MUS
    Malawi MWI
    Malaysia MYS
    Niger NER
    Nicaragua NIC
    Netherlands NLD
    Norway NOR
    Nepal NPL
    New Zealand NZL
    Pakistan PAK
    Panama PAN
    Peru PER
    Philippines PHL
    Papua New Guinea PNG
    Poland POL
    Portugal PRT
    Paraguay PRY
    Rwanda RWA
    Sudan SDN
    Senegal SEN
    Singapore SGP
    Solomon Islands SLB
    Sierra Leone SLE
    El Salvador SLV
    Sweden SWE
    Eswatini SWZ
    Seychelles SYC
    Syrian Arab Republic SYR
    Togo TGO
    Thailand THA
    Trinidad and Tobago TTO
    Tunisia TUN
    Turkiye TUR
    Taiwan, China TWN
    Tanzania TZA
    Uganda UGA
    Uruguay URY
    United States USA
    Venezuela, RB VEN
    Vanuatu VUT
    Yemen, Rep. YEM
    South Africa ZAF
    Zambia ZMB
    Zimbabwe ZWE
    Yugoslavia Fed. Rep. YUG
    Abstract
    Many theories of economic growth stress the role of human capital in the form of education, but empirical studies have been hampered by inadequate data. The authors describe a data set on educational attainment for 120 countries over five- year periods from 1960 to 1985. Census and survey figures fill over 40% of the cells, and the remainder are estimated from school-enrollment data by a perpetual- inventory method. The data refer to male and female attainment of the adult population at four levels: no schooling, primary, secondary, and higher. They also provide a rough breakdown into incomplete and complete attainment at the three levels of schooling.
    Kind of Data
    Aggregate data [agg]

    Version

    Version Description
    Dataset used for Barro, Robert J. and Jong-Wha Lee, "International Comaprisons of Educational Attainment", NBER Working Paper No. W4349, 1993.

    The original dataset has two plain ASCII (text) files: SCHOOL1.RAW, which contains data on schooling of the total population, and SCHOOL2.RAW, which contains the same data for the male and female population. Each file has 664 records (lines) of data, of which each line represents one country in one year. All 108 countries have 6 lines of data (108 x 6 = 648) and the remaining seven countries have 18 records in total. The seven countries, which have incomplete time series data on schooling, are Seychelles (Summers-Heston code 35), Dominica (52), St. Lucia (63), St. Vincent (64), Solomon Islands (135), Vanuatu (137), and Western Samoa (138).
    Version Date
    1993

    Scope

    Notes

    The file contains the data set on educational attainment at various levels for the male and female population aged 25 and above. Out of the 129 countries constructed by Barro and Lee (1993), the data set includes 115 countries, which are in the sample countries of the Summers-Heston (1991) Mark 5. Data are presented, quinquennially, for the years 1960-1985.

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    The authors describe a data set on educational attainment for 120 countries over five- year periods from 1960 to 1985.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name
    Robert J. Barro and Jong-Wha Lee

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    1960 1985
    Time periods
    Start date End date
    1960 1985
    Data Collection Notes

    Census and survey figures fill over 40% of the cells, and the remainder are estimated from school-enrollment data by a perpetual- inventory method. The data refer to male and female attainment of the adult population at four levels: no schooling, primary, secondary, and higher. They also provide a rough breakdown into incomplete and complete attainment at the three levels of schooling.

    Access policy

    Citation requirements

    Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:

    • the Identification of the Primary Investigator
    • the title of the survey (including acronym and year of implementation)
    • the survey reference number
    • the source and date of download

    Example:

    Robert J. Barro and Jong-Wha Lee. Educational Attainment Data (EAD) 1960-1985. Ref. WLD_EAD_1985_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from http://microdata.worldbank.org on [date].

    Disclaimer and copyrights

    Disclaimer

    The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email URL
    Development Research Group World Bank research@worldbank.org

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID
    DDI_WLD_1960-1985_EAD_v02_M
    Date of Metadata Production
    2010-11-03

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version
    DDI Document - Version 02 - (04/27/21)
    This version is identical to DDI_WLD_1960-1985_EAD_v01_M but country field has been updated to capture all the countries covered by survey.

    Version 01 (November 2010)

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