Average Tertiary Schooling Years for Young Adults

Average years of tertiary schooling completed among people aged 20-24. The dataset is produced by Education Statistics, likely using data from the World Bank's Barro-Lee project. It provides a metric for assessing higher education attainment within a specific demographic cohort.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in tertiary education attainment over time using the 'year' dimension.
• Compare average schooling years across different countries or regions using the 'country' identifier.
• Model the relationship between tertiary schooling metrics and other socio-economic indicators like GDP per capita.
• Assess gender disparities in education if a 'gender' or 'sex' column is present in the full dataset.
• Benchmark national education performance against regional or global averages for the 20-24 age group.

Strengths

• Focuses on a standardized, internationally comparable metric for tertiary education.
• Targets a specific, policy-relevant age cohort (20-24 years old).
• Likely part of a larger, established Barro-Lee education dataset with historical depth.

Limitations

• The specific number of countries, years of coverage, and row count are unknown.
• Lacks detailed column information, limiting understanding of available dimensions (e.g., gender disaggregation).
• Data may be aggregated from national sources with varying collection methodologies.

Provenance

Source

World Bank (Barro-Lee project), compiled by Education Statistics.

Collection Method

Aggregated from national education statistics and surveys.

Geography

Likely global country-level coverage, but specific countries are unknown.