Duration of minimum education in years (CRC 1342)
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| Data type | Numeric |
| Scale | Metric |
| Value labels | Not applicable |
| Technical name | edu_dur_min |
| Category | Education and training |
| Label | Duration of minimum education in years |
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In this data set the entries represent the number of years of compulsory education as defined in the legal framework. In total, the data set covers 173 countries over a time span of 281 years.
Coding rules
In building the dataset, I started with data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). More historic data has been added from a variety of sources. Data where I suspect that compulsory education was not yet introduced has been coded as "0". In this version data points where I do not know whether compulsory education was introduced or not, were coded with "0" as well. In the version on GESIS (see below), these data have been coded as "NA".
Bibliographic info
Citation: Besche-Truthe, Fabian (2022). Total duration of compulsory education. Global Dynamics of Social Policy (CRC 1342). Data File Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.7802/2379.
Related publications: Besche-Truthe, F. (2022). The Global Trajectories of Compulsory Education: Clustering Sequences of Policy Development. In: Martens, K., Windzio, M. (eds) Global Pathways to Education. Global Dynamics of Social Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78885-8_3.
Misc
Project manager(s): Fabian Besche-Truthe, Philip Roth
- Version 0.001: Initial release
Revisions: No revisions yet
Sources
Data stems from a variety of sources. The most common sources used are listed here. For more details on sources and explanations consider the material found on GESIS (https://doi.org/10.7802/2379). More information can be provided by the primary researcher Fabian Besche-Truthe
- Brock, Colin, and Nafsika Alexiandou. 2013. Education Around the World : A Comparative Introduction. Edited by Colin Brock. Education Around the World Series. London: Bloomsbury Academia. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781472544445
- The Comparative Constitutions Project. https://www.constituteproject.org/, Data extracted: September 2020.
- International Bureau of Education World Data on Education. 6th edition, 2006/07.
- International Labor Organization Database of national labour, social security and related human rights legislation. https://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/natlex4.home?p_lang=en, Data extracted: September 2020.
- Marlow-Ferguson, Rebecca. 2002. World Education Encyclopedia : A Survey of Educational Systems Worldwide / Rebecca Marlow-Ferguson, Ed. Vol. 1-3. 2. ed. Detroit: Gale Group.
- UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), http://data.uis.unesco.org/index.aspx?queryid=3716#, Data extracted: September 2020.
- UNESCO International Yearbooks of Education/Annuaire international de l'éducation vol. 1, 1933 - vol. 33, 1981. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000163255, and https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000373802.
