Female Secondary Schooling Years By Country

World Bank data provides the average years of secondary education completed among females aged 15 and older for various countries. The dataset is compiled by Education Statistics. The specific temporal coverage and number of country-year observations are unknown.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in female secondary education attainment over time using the year and average years columns.
• Compare female secondary schooling levels across different countries using the country identifier.
• Model the relationship between female education years and other development indicators like labor force participation.
• Assess progress toward gender parity in education by comparing this female-specific series with equivalent male data.

Strengths

• Provides a standardized metric (average years of schooling) for cross-country comparison.
• Focuses on a specific demographic (females aged 15+) for targeted gender analysis.

Limitations

• The exact number of countries, years covered, and row count are unknown, limiting assessment of scope.
• Lacks granularity below the national level and does not show distribution within the female population.
• Data may be estimated or modeled rather than directly measured, depending on source country reporting.

Provenance

Source

Education Statistics (likely within the World Bank).

Collection Method

Aggregated from national census and survey data, using the Barro-Lee methodology.

Time Range

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Freshness

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Geography

Global coverage of countries, but specific list is unknown.