Fredéric Docquier's dataset updates migration statistics by educational attainment. It provides emigration stocks and rates by schooling level and gender for 195 source countries in 1990 and 2000. The data can be used to analyze trends in women's skilled migration.
Use Cases
- Analyzing gender differences in skilled emigration rates based on disaggregated indicators
- Studying correlations between educational attainment gaps and brain drain gaps based on gender-disaggregated data
- Tracking trends in women's share of OECD immigration stock over time
Strengths
- Gender-disaggregated indicators for brain drain
- Coverage of 195 source countries
- Data for two distinct years (1990 and 2000)
Limitations
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- License is closed, restricting redistribution and commercial use
Provenance
- Source
- Fredéric Docquier
- Collection Method
- Data set updates and extends the Docquier-Marfouk data set using new sources and homogenized definitions.
- Time Range
- 1990 and 2000
- Geography
- 195 source countries