Female Secondary Schooling Years for Ages 30-34

Average years of secondary education completed by females aged 30-34. The data is compiled by the Barro-Lee project and disseminated by the World Bank's Education Statistics team. The temporal coverage and update frequency are not specified.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in female secondary education attainment over time using the year and average years metrics.
• Compare gender gaps in schooling by joining this female-specific series with corresponding male data using country and year identifiers.
• Model the relationship between educational attainment and economic development indicators using country-level averages.
• Track progress towards gender parity in education targets across different nations using the female-specific attainment metric.

Strengths

• Provides a standardized, internationally comparable metric for female educational attainment.
• Focuses on a specific, economically active demographic cohort (ages 30-34).
• Part of a long-established and widely cited Barro-Lee education dataset.

Limitations

• Sample size and underlying data collection methodology are not detailed.
• Lacks granularity below the national level and does not include sub-national or socioeconomic breakdowns.
• The specific time range covered by the available data is unknown.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Compiled from national census and survey data using a consistent methodology.

Geography

Likely covers multiple countries, but specific spatial coverage is not stated.