February, 2000

Barro R. and J.W. Lee

The two EXCEL files contain updates of the data on educational attainment at various levels for a broad number of countries in the world (see Barro, Robert J. and Jong-Wha Lee, "International Data on Educational Attainment: Updates and Implications," manuscript, Harvard University, February 2000.). The data set provides the estimates for two different age groups- over age 15 and over age 25- and a breakdown by sex at five-year intervals for the years 1960-2000. It also includes the number of years of schooling achieved by the average person at the various levels and at all levels of schooling combined.

The PANEL_DATA reports the same data by the order of Summers-Heston V.5.0 country code (as in Barro-Lee Data Set). It has all four worksheets: two worksheets for each age group of the population - one for the distribution of educational attainment and the other for the average years of schooling. The name of the variables is as follows. The last two numbers behind a variable denotes the year of the observations: year=99 is used to denote 2000. If the variable has 15 in the middle of the name, it refers to the group of the population aged 15 and above.

Variable : Definition

SHCODE : Numerical code in Summers-Heston v.5.0.

LU : Percentage of "no schooling" in the total population

LUM : Percentage of "no schooling" in the male population

LUF : Percentage of "no schooling" in the female population

LP : Percentage of "primary school attained" in the total pop.

LPM : Percentage of "primary school attained" in the male pop.

LPF : Percentage of "primary school attained" in the female pop.

LPC : Percentage of "primary school complete" in the total pop.

LPCM : Percentage of "primary school complete" in the male pop.

LPCF : Percentage of "primary school complete" in the female pop.

LS : Percentage of "secondary school attained" in the total pop.

LSM : Percentage of "secondary school attained" in the male pop.

LSF : Percentage of "secondary school attained" in female pop.

LSC : Percentage of "secondary school complete" in the total pop.

LSCM : Percentage of "secondary school complete" in the male pop.

LSCF : Percentage of "secondary school complete" in female pop.

LH : Percentage of "higher school attained" in the total pop.

LHM : Percentage of "higher school attained" in the male pop.

LHF : Percentage of "higher school attained" in female pop.

LHC : Percentage of "higher school complete" in the total pop.

LHCM : Percentage of "higher school complete" in the male pop.

LHCF : 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.