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Barro-Lee Educational Attainment Dataset (Robert J. Barro and Jong-Wha Lee)

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Barro-Lee Educational Attainment Dataset ingest (v3). Source: https://barrolee.github.io/BarroLeeDataSet/ Authors: Robert J. Barro and Jong-Wha Lee License: Free for academic use Coverage: 146 countries, 1950-2020 (5-year intervals), by age group, sex Variables: lu (no schooling %), lp (primary…

Redistributable. This source is served as canonical Parquet under the license below, with attribution and provenance preserved.

Coverage

Series catalogued
43,362
Temporal coverage
1950-12-31 – 2015-12-31
Categories
Education

Licensing & provenance

License
custom-terms-barro_lee
License URL
https://barrolee.github.io/BarroLeeDataSet/
Required attribution
Barro, R. and Lee, J.-W. Barro-Lee Educational Attainment Dataset. © Robert J. Barro and Jong-Wha Lee.
Redistribution
Permitted (served here)
Commercial use
Restricted / no
Modification
Permitted
Provider homepage
https://barrolee.github.io/BarroLeeDataSet/
Provider terms
https://barrolee.github.io/BarroLeeDataSet/

How to cite

Barro-Lee Educational Attainment Dataset (Robert J. Barro and Jong-Wha Lee). Retrieved from https://barrolee.github.io/BarroLeeDataSet/. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Processing: Retrieved from the official source, normalized to a long {series_key, obs_date, value} schema (period-start dates), de-duplicated, and stored as zstd Parquet. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Access & mirrors

Download
Select & download barro_lee series as CSV →
API
Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing
https://econdatalibrary.com/barro_lee
Update cadence
static
Automated refresh
live — this database is on the daily update run
Update strategy
overwrite if changed
Storage layout
single parquet: data/clean_full/barro_lee/barro_lee.parquet (zstd), columns (series_key=BARRO_LEE:{var}:{agefrom}_{ageto}:{sex}:{iso3}, obs_date, value). ~239K obs.

Full description

Barro-Lee Educational Attainment Dataset ingest (v3). Source: https://barrolee.github.io/BarroLeeDataSet/ Authors: Robert J. Barro and Jong-Wha Lee License: Free for academic use Coverage: 146 countries, 1950-2020 (5-year intervals), by age group, sex Variables: lu (no schooling %), lp (primary incomplete %), lpc (primary complete %), ls (secondary incomplete %), lsc (secondary complete %), lh (tertiary incomplete %), lhc (tertiary complete %), yr_sch (avg years schooling), yr_sch_pri/sec/ter (by level) series_key: BARRO_LEE:{variable}:{agefrom}_{ageto}:{sex}:{iso3} e.g. BARRO_LEE:yr_sch:25_64:MF:DZA Output: data/clean_full/barro_lee/barro_lee.parquet Run: python jobs/ingest_barro_lee.py

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)
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