Right to Education in Education Law (CRC 1342)
| Quick info | |
|---|---|
| Data type | Numeric |
| Scale | Metric |
| Value labels | Not applicable |
| Technical name | edu_right_law |
| Category | Education and training |
| Label | Index of the right to education as enshrined in education laws |
| Related indicators | Index of the right to education as enshrined in the constitution |
This data indexes the right to education as enshrined in education laws. The index can be read ordinally for values 1-5. Based on the original texts of the education laws listed in the ILO's NATLEX database, the index signifies the following state of the right to education:
- 1: Does not enshrine the right to education (no right mentioned)
- 2: Enshrines a right, but with limitations, which can be temporal (meant to achieve right in the future or limits due to state resources, etc.), a guarantee, or a principle -> i.e., an attempt at a right to education was made, but not fully implemented
- 3: Enshrines the right to education, but only to a specific group (e.g., right to education only for citizens)
- 4: Enshrines a right to education with vague anti-discrimination (“all”, “everyone”, etc.), or mentions citizens only, but names groups regarding discrimination
- 5: Enshrines a right to education with concrete anti-discrimination based on sex/gender/race/religion, etc.
Coding rules
Scope of indicator: For this indicator, we take education laws published on the ILO NATLEX database into account. To ensure reliability, the index was created through joint coding by two coders.
The coding procedure in detail was as follows:
- Reviewing the law on its actual relevance to the topic
- Search the relevant laws for keywords like right, citizen, women, girls, discrimination, free, compulsory, mandatory, every, etc.
- Two approaches were used for non-English documents:
- Translate the law into English or German using Google Translate for document translation. Search the translated document for keywords, compile relevant passages, translate as needed, and enter them into the Excel spreadsheet.
- Download the law, translate keywords into the law's original language, and conduct a search. Translate and compile any relevant findings into English, then input them into the Excel spreadsheet.
- Multiple entries per law are possible in the raw data. The uploaded index only shows the highest score per year.
- Two coders coded the index values apart from each other and discussed and combined their coding in cases of mismatch.
Bibliographic info
Citation: TBD
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Misc
Project manager(s): Helen Seitzer, Fabian Besche-Truthe
- 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. More information is provided in the dataset itself i.e. a dedicated link to every document used for coding.
