An economic indicator measuring inequality of access to essential services, specifically science proficiency at level 3 in private schools. The Human Opportunities Index (HOI) is produced by the LAC Equity Lab and aggregates data on access rates and distribution inequality across different circumstance groups. The index considers circumstances including child's gender, parents' education, school region, father's occupation, and household wealth.
Use Cases
- Analyze correlation between household wealth index and science proficiency access rates.
- Model the HOI score based on circumstance variables like parents' education and father's occupation.
- Compare inequality of science opportunity distribution across different school regions.
- Assess gender disparity in access to level 3 science proficiency in private schools.
Strengths
- Index incorporates multiple circumstance dimensions (gender, parental education, region, occupation, wealth).
- Measures both average access rate and inequality of distribution for a specific opportunity.
Limitations
- Specific row count, column count, and temporal coverage are unknown.
- Data is limited to private schools and a single proficiency level (level 3) for science.
- Geographic coverage is implied but not explicitly stated, potentially limiting generalizability.
Provenance
- Source
- LAC Equity Lab via World Bank
- Collection Method
- Calculated from survey data aggregating access rates and inequality across defined circumstance groups.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Likely Latin America and Caribbean region (implied by LAC Equity Lab), but not explicitly stated.