LAC Equity Lab provides the Human Opportunities Index for finishing primary school, measuring inequality of access based on a child's circumstances. The index incorporates factors like gender, parental education, household income, and location to assess both average access rates and distributional equality. It is an economic indicator designed to track progress in educational opportunity across Latin America and the Caribbean.
Use Cases
- Analyze the correlation between household per capita income and the HOI score to model economic barriers to primary school completion.
- Compare HOI scores across urban and rural residence categories to evaluate geographic disparities in educational access.
- Investigate the influence of parents' education level on the index to understand intergenerational educational mobility.
- Assess gender inequality by examining HOI scores disaggregated by the gender of the child.
- Model the effect of family structure, such as the presence of both parents in the household, on the probability of finishing primary school.
Strengths
- Index is constructed from multiple circumstance variables including gender, income, and parental education.
- Measures both overall coverage (access rate) and inequality of distribution for a complete view.
Limitations
- Specific row count, column details, and sample size are unknown.
- Geographic coverage is implied but not explicitly stated, limiting precise regional analysis.
- Data freshness and update frequency are unknown.
Provenance
- Source
- LAC Equity Lab, World Bank.
- Collection Method
- Calculated index based on surveys capturing individual circumstances and access to essential services.
- Time Range
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- Freshness
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- Geography
- Implied coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region.