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.

摘要

关于教育程度的数据通常是定性数据，其中唯一可用的信息是个人的最高教育水平。如果可以对这些教育水平进行排名，则可用信息将成为序数。然后，对于只有序数信息可用的情况，可以使用近年来建议的不平等和总体成就的衡量标准（主要是在自我评估的健康领域）。本文采纳了这些最新的建议，并提出了教育不平等和整体教育程度的新措施。我们的经验图例基于欧盟统计局（Eurostat）2011年的数据。