Female Educational Attainment by Country

Average years of total schooling for females aged 30-34 is a key metric for assessing gender parity in education. The dataset provides country-level estimates, compiled by Education Statistics using the Barro-Lee methodology. It supports analysis of long-term trends in female educational attainment.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between female schooling_years and national economic growth metrics.
• Compare female schooling_years across countries to identify regional disparities in educational access.
• Model the impact of changes in female schooling_years on subsequent labor force participation rates.
• Track historical progress in female schooling_years to evaluate the effectiveness of gender-focused education policies.

Strengths

• Provides a standardized metric (average years of schooling) for cross-country comparison.
• Focuses on a specific demographic cohort (females aged 30-34) for consistent analysis.

Limitations

• The dataset likely contains estimates and modeled data, not direct measurements.
• Specific row count, column details, and temporal coverage are unknown.
• Data may not capture sub-national variations within countries.

Provenance

Source

Education Statistics (likely utilizing the Barro-Lee dataset).

Collection Method

Estimated using census and survey data following the Barro-Lee methodology.

Geography

Country-level coverage.