On the Measurement of Educational Attainment and Inequality with Ordinal Variables

Autor/inn/en	Dumas, Audrey; Silber, Jacques
Titel	On the Measurement of Educational Attainment and Inequality with Ordinal Variables
Quelle	In: Education Economics, 29 (2021) 2, S.158-172 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0964-5292
DOI	10.1080/09645292.2020.1856336
Schlagwörter	Educational Attainment; Equal Education; Measurement Techniques; Foreign Countries; Europe + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Messtechnik; Ausland; Europa
Abstract	Data on educational attainments are often qualitative data where the only information available is the highest level of education of the individual. If these levels of education may be ranked, the information available becomes ordinal. It is then possible to use measures of inequality as well as of overall attainment suggested in recent years (mostly in the field of self-assessed health) for the case where only ordinal information is available. This paper adopts these recent suggestions and proposes new measures of educational inequality and overall educational attainment. Our empirical illustration is based on Eurostat data for the year 2011. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01