Share of the female population ages 15-18 that is in school and not employed. This indicator focuses on adolescent girls in Latin America and the Caribbean. The data is produced by the LAC Equity Lab.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in the 'share in school' metric over time to evaluate education policy effectiveness.
- Compare female school enrollment rates across different countries or sub-regions within Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Correlate the enrollment share with other socioeconomic indicators to study barriers to education for adolescent girls.
- Model the relationship between female school attendance and future labor market outcomes using this specific age and gender cohort data.
Strengths
- Data is produced by the LAC Equity Lab, a specialized research unit.
- Indicator provides a specific measure for a critical demographic (female, ages 15-18).
Limitations
- The dataset scope is limited to Latin America and the Caribbean, not globally representative.
- No sample size, row count, or specific time range is provided for assessment.
- The single metric ('share in school') offers limited dimensionality for multivariate analysis.
Provenance
- Source
- LAC Equity Lab, hosted on World Bank platform.
- Collection Method
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- Time Range
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- Freshness
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- Geography
- Latin America and the Caribbean