From the 1980s onward, this open-access dataset covers 60,000 units across 20 wealthy democracies. It provides disaggregated data on educational attainment, demographics, urban structure, and voting, enabling analysis of within-region variation.
Use Cases
- Analyze within-region variation in educational attainment across demographic groups.
- Model the relationship between urban structure and voting patterns over time.
- Examine spatial inequality trends using demographic and educational data from 60,000 units.
Strengths
- Covers 60,000 observational units for detailed sub-national analysis.
- Provides data for 20 wealthy democracies, enabling cross-national comparison.
- Includes time-series data from the 1980s onward for longitudinal studies.
Limitations
- Limited geographic scope to wealthy democracies, reducing generalizability to other regions.
- Unknown sample size (rows) and feature count (columns) limits assessment of analytical scope.
- Potential for temporal staleness for the most recent years, depending on update frequency.
Provenance
- Source
- Harvard Dataverse
- Collection Method
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- Time Range
- From the 1980s onward
- Freshness
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- Geography
- 20 wealthy democracies