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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
Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON
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Apr 01, 2011
Last modified
Jun 13, 2022
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  • Identification
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  • Coverage
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  • Data Collection
  • Access policy
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  • Metadata production

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 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 Email 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].

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)
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