Average years of tertiary schooling completed by females aged 75 and older. The dataset provides a demographic-specific metric for educational attainment, compiled by Education Statistics from the World Bank platform.
Use Cases
- Analyze gender gaps in tertiary education by comparing the 'female, age 75+' metric against corresponding male or younger cohort data.
- Model the relationship between historical female tertiary schooling levels and country-level development indicators.
- Track long-term trends in educational attainment for the elderly female demographic across different countries or regions.
Strengths
- Focuses on a specific, policy-relevant demographic segment (females 75+).
- Derived from the authoritative Barro-Lee educational attainment dataset.
Limitations
- Contains only an aggregated average metric, lacking individual-level records or supporting socioeconomic variables.
- Sample size and underlying data collection methodology for the elderly cohort are unknown.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank (Barro-Lee dataset), Education Statistics.
- Collection Method
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