Education Attainment and Enrollment Around the World 1989-2008

An International Database

The database contains the following indicators:

• Percentage of the population ages 15 to 19 that has completed each grade (grades 1 to 9);
• Percentage of the population ages 20 to 29 that has completed each grade (grades 1 to 9);
• Percentage of the population ages 30 to 39 that has completed each grade (grades 1 to 9);
• Percentage of the population ages 40 to 49 that has completed each grade (grades 1 to 9);
• Median grade attained by the population ages 15 to 19;
• Survival function estimates of the proportion of the population ages 6 to 19 that has completed each grade;
• Percentage of the population ages 6 to 17, by age in single years, that has ever attended school;
• Percentage of the population ages 6 to 17, by age in single years, that is currently in school;
• Percentage of the population ages 6 to 11 (as a group) that is currently in school;
• Percentage of the population ages 12 to 14 (as a group) that is currently in school;
• Percentage of the population ages 6 to 14 (as a group) that is currently in school.
• Concentration index (and its standard error) of the percentage of the population ages 15 to 19 that has completed grade 6.
• Concentration index (and its standard error) of the percentage of the population ages 6 to 14 that is currently in school.

Each indicator (except the concentration indexes) is calculated for a variety of subgroups within the population. These are:

• All;
• Rural and Urban;
• Male and Female;
• Rural/Urban and Male/Female interacted;
• Poverty Quintiles (poorest quintile, quintiles 2, 3, 4 and richest quintile) with welfare rankings derived from an index of consumer durables and housing characteristics;
• Poverty Groups (Poorest 40 percent; Middle 40 percent; Richest 20 percent) with welfare rankings derived from an index of consumer durables and housing characteristics;
• The interaction of Poverty Groups and Male/Female

For surveys with a consumption-expenditures aggregate variable that can be used to rank households (i.e. the Integrated Household Surveys), the following indicators are also calculated:

• Expenditure Poverty Quintiles (poorest quintile, quintiles 2, 3, 4 and richest quintile) with welfare rankings derived from per capita household consumption-expenditures;
• Expenditure Poverty Groups (Poorest 40 percent; Middle 40 percent; Richest 20 percent) with welfare rankings derived from per capita household consumption-expenditures;
• The interaction of Expenditure Poverty Groups and Male/Female