Barro Lee

Name: Barro Lee
Creator: Barro Lee

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Coverage

Series catalogued

43,362

Temporal coverage

1950-12-31 – 2015-12-31

Licensing & provenance

License: License under review
Redistribution: Not permitted (metadata only)
Commercial use: Restricted / no
Modification: Permitted

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.html
Update cadence: static
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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