Estimates of educational attainment by sex for persons aged 25 and over, constructed by Robert J. Barro and Jong-Wha Lee. The data covers a panel of 138 countries, including China, with values at five-year intervals from 1960 to 1990. The study updates previous work from 1993 by incorporating census information for 1985 and 1990.
Use Cases
- Modeling economic growth based on international human capital measures.
- Analyzing gender disparities in education across countries and over time.
- Studying long-term trends in educational attainment for demographic cohorts.
- Benchmarking national education statistics against a standardized international panel.
Strengths
- Covers 138 countries, a broad international cross-section.
- Provides data at five-year intervals over a 30-year period (1960-1990).
- Includes estimates disaggregated by sex for the population aged 25 and over.
Limitations
- Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Last update date is unknown; data freshness beyond 1990 is unverified.
- Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to the available census sources.
Provenance
- Source
- National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
- Collection Method
- Constructed from census and survey information.
- Time Range
- 1960 to 1990 at five-year intervals
- Geography
- 138 countries worldwide