Barro-Lee data provides average years of total schooling completed for the global population aged 15-19. The dataset is compiled by Education Statistics from the World Bank platform. The specific temporal coverage and row count are not provided.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in average schooling years for the 15-19 age cohort across countries.
- Compare educational attainment levels for the 15-19 demographic between different regions.
- Model the relationship between average schooling years and other development indicators.
- Track progress in secondary education completion rates using the average years metric.
- Benchmark national educational outcomes for adolescents against global averages.
Strengths
- Provides a standardized metric (average years of schooling) for international comparison.
- Focuses on a key demographic (age 15-19) for assessing secondary education completion.
Limitations
- The exact number of countries, rows, and temporal coverage is unknown.
- Data granularity (e.g., sub-national, gender breakdown) is not specified.
- Potential for aggregation bias if underlying census/survey data quality varies.
Provenance
- Source
- Education Statistics (World Bank)
- Collection Method
- Aggregated from national census and survey data.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Global (country-level)