README The diskette contains the data set on educational attainment at various levels for the male and female population. The data set includes estimates of educational attainment for the population by age - over age 15 and over age 25 - for 126 countries in the world. (see Barro, Robert and J.W. Lee, "International Measures of Schooling Years and Schooling Quality, AER, Papers and Proceedings, 86(2), pp. 218-223 and also see "International Data on Education", manuscipt.) Data are presented quinquennially for the years 1960-1990. Please note that the data and description on the measures of schooling quality and educational inequality is in the file "quality.xls" (Excel 5.0) The diskette has six plain ASCII (text) files - school1.raw, school2.raw, school3.raw, school4.raw, school5.raw and school6.raw. Each of the files contains data as described below. Data on each variable are listed by the order of SHCODE (see List of Country). The missing observations are denoted by '.'. The term 'xx' behind a variable denotes an age group of the population (xx= 25 applies to the population aged 25 and over and xx= 15 appiles to the population aged 15 and over.) ASCII File Data ----------- ----- SCHOOL1.RAW : SHCODE YEAR N025 PRI25 PRIC25 SEC25 SECC25 HIGH25 HIGHC25 TYR25 PYR25 SYR25 HYR25 SCHOOL2.RAW : SHCODE YEAR N0M25 PRIM25 PRICM25 SECM25 SECCM25 HIGHM25 HIGHCM25 TYRM25 PYRM25 SYRM25 HYRM25 SCHOOL3.RAW : SHCODE YEAR N0F25 PRIF25 PRICF25 SECF25 SECCF25 HIGHF25 HIGHCF25 TYRF25 PYRF25 SYRF25 HYRF25 SCHOOL4.RAW : SHCODE YEAR N015 PRI15 PRIC15 SEC15 SECC15 HIGH15 HIGHC15 TYR15 PYR15 SYR15 HYR15 SCHOOL5.RAW : SHCODE YEAR N0M15 PRIM15 PRICM15 SECM15 SECCM15 HIGHM15 HIGHCM15 TYRM15 PYRM15 SYRM15 HYRM15 SCHOOL6.RAW : SHCODE YEAR N0F15 PRIF15 PRICF15 SECF15 SECCF15 HIGHF15 HIGHCF15 TYRF15 PYRF15 SYRF15 HYRF15 Variable : Definition ____________________________________________________________________________ SHCODE : Numerical code in Barro-Lee data set and Summers-Heston v.5.0. YEAR : Year (60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85 and 90) NO : Percentage of "no schooling" in the total population NOM : Percentage of "no schooling" in the male population NOF : Percentage of "no schooling" in the female population PRI : Percentage of "primary school attained" in the total pop. PRIM : Percentage of "primary school attained" in the male pop. PRIF : Percentage of "primary school attained" in the female pop. PRIC : Percentage of "primary school complete" in the total pop. PRICM : Percentage of "primary school complete" in the male pop. PRICF : Percentage of "primary school complete" in the female pop. SEC : Percentage of "secondary school attained" in the total pop. SECM : Percentage of "secondary school attained" in the male pop. SECF : Percentage of "secondary school attained" in female pop. SECC : Percentage of "secondary school complete" in the total pop. SECCM : Percentage of "secondary school complete" in the male pop. SECCF : Percentage of "secondary school complete" in female pop. HIGH : Percentage of "higher school attained" in the total pop. HIGHM : Percentage of "higher school attained" in the male pop. HIGHF : Percentage of "higher school attained" in female pop. HIGHC : Percentage of "higher school complete" in the total pop. HIGHCM : Percentage of "higher school complete" in the male pop. HIGHCF : Percentage of "higher school complete" in female pop. TYR : Average schooling years in the total population. TYRM : Average schooling years in the male population. TYRF : Average schooling years in the female population. PYR : Average years of primary schooling in the total population. PYRM : Average years of primary schooling in the male population. PYRF : Average years of primary schooling in the female population. SYR : Average years of secondary schooling in the total population. SYRM : Average years of secondary schooling in the male population. SYRF : Average years of secondary schooling in the female population. HYR : Average years of higher schooling in the total population. HYRM : Average years of higher schooling in the male population. HYRF : Average years of higher schooling in the female population. ____________________________________________________________________________ COUNTRY LIST ------------- SHCODE : Country code (as in Barro-Lee data set) ____________________________________________________________________________ SHCODE World Bank Code COUNTRY NAME 1 DZA Algeria 2 AGO Angola 3 BEN Benin 4 BWA Botswana 5 HVO Burkina Faso 6 BDI Burundi 7 CMR Cameroon 8 CPV Cape verde 9 CAF Central African Rep. 10 TCD Chad 11 COM Comoros 12 COG Congo 13 EGY Egypt 14 ETH Ethiopia 15 GAB Gabon 16 GMB Gambia 17 GHA Ghana 18 GIN Guinea 19 GNB Guinea-Bissau 20 CIV Cote d'Ivoire 21 KEN Kenya 22 LSO Lesotho 23 LBR Liberia 24 MDG Madagascar 25 MWI Malawi 26 MLI Mali 27 MRT Mauritania 28 MUS Mauritius 29 MAR Morocco 30 MOZ Mozambique 31 NER Niger 32 NGA Nigeria 33 RWA Rwanda 34 SEN Senegal 35 SYC Seychelles 36 SLE Sierra Leone 37 SOM Somalia 38 ZAF South africa 39 SDN Sudan 40 SWZ Swaziland 41 TZA Tanzania 42 TGO Togo 43 TUN Tunisia 44 UGA Uganda 45 ZAR Zaire 46 ZMB Zambia 47 ZWE Zimbabwe 48 BHS Bahamas, The 49 BRB Barbados 50 CAN Canada 51 CRI Costa Rica 52 DMA Dominica 53 DOM Dominican Rep. 54 SLV El Salvador 55 GRD Grenada 56 GTM Guatemala 57 HTI Haiti 58 HND Honduras 59 JAM Jamaica 60 MEX Mexico 61 NIC Nicaragua 62 PAN Panama 63 LCA St.Lucia 64 VCT St.Vincent & Grens. 65 TTO Trinidad & Tobago 66 USA United States 67 ARG Argentina 68 BOL Bolivia 69 BRA Brazil 70 CHL Chile 71 COL Colombia 72 ECU Ecuador 73 GUY Guyana 74 PRY Paraguay 75 PER Peru 76 SUR Suriname 77 URY Uruguay 78 VEN Venezuela 79 AFG Afghanistan 80 BHR Bahrain 81 BGD Bangladesh 82 BUR Myanmar (Burma) 83 CHN China 84 HKG Hong Kong 85 IND India 86 IDN Indonesia 87 IRN Iran, I.R. of 88 IRQ Iraq 89 ISR Israel 90 JPN Japan 91 JOR Jordan 92 KOR Korea 93 KWT Kuwait 94 MYS Malaysia 95 NPL Nepal 96 OMN Oman 97 PAK Pakistan 98 PHL Philippines 99 SAU Saudi Arabia 100 SGP Singapore 101 LKA Sri Lanka 102 SYR Syria 103 OAN Taiwan 104 THA Thailand 105 ARE United Arab Emirates 106 YEM Yemen, N.Arab 107 AUT Austria 108 BEL Belgium 109 CYP Cyprus 110 DNK Denmark 111 FIN Finland 112 FRA France 113 DEU Germany, West 114 GRC Greece 115 HUN Hungary 116 ISL Iceland 117 IRL Ireland 118 ITA Italy 119 LUX Luxembourg 120 MLT Malta 121 NLD Netherlands 122 NOR Norway 123 POL Poland 124 PRT Portugal 125 ESP Spain 126 SWE Sweden 127 CHE Switzerland 128 TUR Turkey 129 GBR United Kingdom 130 YUG Yugoslavia 131 AUS Australia 132 FJI Fiji 133 NZL New Zealand 134 PNG Papua New Guinea 135 SLB Solomon Islands 136 TON Tonga 137 VUT Vanuatu 138 WSM Western Samoa 140 LBY Libya 141 NAM Namibia 142 Reunion 143 BLZ Belize 144 BRN Brunei 145 Antigua & Barbados 146 KNA St.Kitts& Nevis 150 BGR Bulgaria 151 CSK Czechoslovakia 152 DDR Germany, East 153 ROM Romania 154 U.S.S.R. 155 Cuba 156 ALB Albania