The Human Opportunities Index (HOI) measures inequality in access to essential services across different circumstance groups. It was developed by the LAC Equity Lab and focuses on science proficiency in public schools. The index incorporates factors like child gender, parental education, and household wealth to assess both coverage and distributional equality.
Use Cases
- Analyze correlation between household wealth index and science proficiency scores across regions.
- Model the impact of parents' education level on a child's access to science education using the HOI framework.
- Compare gender disparities in science proficiency by region of school location.
- Assess how father's occupation relates to inequality in educational opportunity distribution.
Strengths
- Index incorporates multiple circumstance variables including gender, parental education, and wealth.
- Designed to measure both average access rate and inequality of distribution.
Limitations
- Specific row count, column details, and temporal coverage are unknown.
- Geographic scope is implied but not explicitly stated in the provided description.
Provenance
- Source
- LAC Equity Lab via World Bank
- Collection Method
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- Time Range
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- Freshness
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- Geography
- Implied to be Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) based on originating lab.