A Human Opportunities Index dataset measuring inequality in access to essential education services. The index, created by the LAC Equity Lab, combines average access rates with distribution inequality across circumstance groups. It focuses on achieving Reading Proficiency Level 3 in private schools.
Use Cases
- Analyze the correlation between the household wealth index and the HOI for reading proficiency in private schools.
- Model the influence of parents' education levels on the probability of a child reaching reading proficiency level 3.
- Compare regional inequality in access to proficient reading outcomes using the region of school location feature.
- Assess gender-based disparities in reading proficiency access by analyzing the child gender circumstance variable.
Strengths
- Index incorporates multiple circumstance variables: gender, parents' education, region, father's occupation, and a household wealth index.
- Measures both coverage (average access rate) and distributional inequality for a specific educational opportunity.
Limitations
- Specific row count, column details, and temporal coverage are unknown.
- Data is limited to private schools and reading proficiency level 3, not a full picture of the education system.
- Geographic scope is implied but not explicitly stated, potentially limiting generalizability.
Provenance
- Source
- LAC Equity Lab, hosted by the World Bank.
- Collection Method
- Calculated index based on survey data capturing circumstances like gender, parental education, region, occupation, and household wealth.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Likely focuses on Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region, based on the producing lab's focus.