Female Tertiary Schooling Years for Young Adults

Average years of tertiary education completed among females aged 25-29. The dataset is produced by the World Bank's Education Statistics team, focusing on a key demographic for measuring educational attainment.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in female tertiary education attainment over time using the year and average years columns.
• Compare educational outcomes across countries using the country identifier and the average years metric.
• Model the relationship between female tertiary schooling years and economic indicators like labor force participation.
• Assess progress towards gender parity in education by comparing this female-specific series with corresponding male data.

Strengths

• Focuses on a standardized, internationally comparable metric for educational attainment.
• Provides data for a specific, policy-relevant age cohort (25-29 years).

Limitations

• Specific row count, time range, and geographic coverage are unknown from the input.
• Lacks accompanying metadata on data collection methodology and potential sampling errors.

Provenance

Source

World Bank Education Statistics

Collection Method

Aggregated from national census and survey data.

Geography

Country-level, specific countries unknown.