Reading Proficiency Index for Public Schools in Latin America and the Caribbean

Latin American and Caribbean public school data from the World Bank's Human Opportunities Index measures inequality in access to essential education services. The index calculates a composite score based on average access rates and distributional inequality for reading proficiency at Level 2. It was developed by the LAC Equity Lab.

Use Cases

• Analyze the correlation between a child's gender and the HOI reading proficiency score across different regions.
• Model the influence of parents' education level on the index score to identify key familial circumstance factors.
• Assess how the household wealth index based on assets relates to regional disparities in the opportunity index.
• Compare the distribution of the HOI score based on the father's occupation to evaluate socioeconomic barriers.
• Track changes in the composite index over time to measure the impact of policies aimed at increasing coverage or equality.

Strengths

• Index incorporates multiple circumstance variables: child's gender, parents' education, region, father's occupation, and household wealth.
• Derived from a standardized economic indicator methodology for cross-country comparison.

Limitations

• Specific sample size, row count, and temporal coverage are not provided.
• Data is limited to public schools within the Latin America and Caribbean region, limiting generalizability.

Provenance

Source

World Bank, LAC Equity Lab

Collection Method

Calculated index based on survey data capturing access to essential services.

Geography

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region