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

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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).

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.

Data Access

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

Name	Affiliation	Email	URL
Development Research Group	World Bank	research@worldbank.org	http://go.worldbank.org/B9W4QTDHR0

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.