HOI measures inequality in access to essential services, specifically Level 2 mathematics proficiency in private schools. The index is calculated from average access rates and distribution inequality across circumstance groups. LAC Equity Lab at the World Bank produced this indicator.
Use Cases
- Analyze how a child's gender correlates with access to Level 2 mathematics proficiency in private schools.
- Model the relationship between the household wealth index and the Human Opportunities Index for mathematics.
- Compare the influence of parents' education versus father's occupation on the inequality of educational access.
- Assess regional disparities in private school mathematics proficiency using the region of school location data.
- Track changes in the HOI over time to evaluate if increases stem from higher coverage or more equal distribution.
Strengths
- Index incorporates multiple circumstance variables: child's gender, parents' education, region, father's occupation, and household wealth.
- Methodology captures both average access (coverage) and the inequality of distribution for a specific opportunity.
Limitations
- Specific row count, column details, and temporal coverage for the private school mathematics data are unknown.
- The dataset's geographic scope is not specified, limiting analysis to a known region.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank, LAC Equity Lab
- Collection Method
- Calculated index based on survey data measuring access to opportunities.