Public Spending on Health and Education in WAEMU Countries, 1999-2022

Seven West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) countries are covered in this panel dataset from 1999 to 2022. The data, compiled by Hamidou Ouedraogo, aggregates information on public expenditures in health and education and their effects on human development indicators. Variables are sourced from three major institutional databases: UNDP, WDI, and WGI.

Use Cases

• Modeling the synergistic effect of combined health and education spending on the Human Development Index.
• Analyzing the relationship between sectoral public expenditure and primary school enrollment rates.
• Investigating the impact of government spending on health outcomes like life expectancy and infant mortality.
• Conducting panel data analysis on fiscal policy efficiency within an economic union.

Strengths

• Data spans 24 years (1999-2022) for longitudinal analysis.
• Variables are sourced from three reliable international institutions (UNDP, WDI, WGI) for comparability.
• The study employs panel-corrected standard error (PCSE) and Driscoll-Kraay methods, suggesting structured econometric analysis.

Limitations

• The description notes limitations in data quality and irregularity for the WAEMU panel.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for specific modeling tasks.

Provenance

Source

UNDP, World Development Indicators (WDI), Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI)

Collection Method

Aggregated from institutional databases.

Time Range

1999 to 2022

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05 08 23:24:37; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Seven countries of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU)