Average years of tertiary schooling completed among females aged 50-54. The dataset is produced by Education Statistics, likely using national census or survey data. The specific temporal and geographic coverage is not provided.
Use Cases
- Analyze gender gaps in tertiary education by comparing the 'female, age 50-54' cohort metric against corresponding male cohort data.
- Study generational shifts in education by tracking the 'average years of tertiary schooling' metric across different age cohorts over time.
- Model national education development by correlating the 'female, age 50-54' attainment metric with economic indicators for the same period.
- Assess long-term returns to education by using the cohort-specific 'average years' as a predictor variable in wage or health outcome studies.
Strengths
- Provides a specific, standardized metric for international comparison: average years of tertiary schooling.
- Focuses on a defined demographic cohort: females aged 50-54.
Limitations
- Dataset scope is limited to a single age-gender cohort, preventing analysis of other demographic groups.
- Lack of metadata on row count, country coverage, and time range limits reproducibility and breadth of analysis.
Provenance
- Source
- Education Statistics (likely via the World Bank platform).
- Collection Method
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- Time Range
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- Freshness
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- Geography
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