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
Producer(s)
Robert J. Barro and Jong-Wha Lee
Metadata
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Apr 01, 2011
Last modified
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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).
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 Mode
Other [oth]
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
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Development Research Group | World Bank | research@worldbank.org | Link |
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].
- 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.
Metadata production
DDI Document ID
DDI_WLD_1960-1985_EAD_v02_M
Date of Metadata Production
2010-11-03
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)
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)