Female Secondary Schooling Attainment for Adults Over 25

Barro-Lee data provides the average years of secondary education completed among females aged 25 and older. It is compiled by the World Bank's Education Statistics team. The dataset offers a demographic-specific measure of educational attainment.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in female secondary education attainment over time using the 'average years' metric.
• Compare female educational attainment across different countries or regions using the country-level indicator.
• Model the relationship between female schooling years and other socio-economic development indicators.

Strengths

• Focuses on a specific demographic (females aged 25+), enabling targeted gender analysis.
• Provides a standardized metric (average years of schooling) for cross-country comparison.

Limitations

• Sample size and underlying data collection methods for each country-year observation are unknown.
• Lacks granularity below the national level, such as sub-national or urban/rural breakdowns.

Provenance

Source

World Bank, Education Statistics (Barro-Lee dataset).

Collection Method

Compiled from national census and survey data.

Geography

Country-level, global coverage.