Improving the estimation of educational attainment: New methods for assessing average years of schooling from binned data.
<h4>Background</h4>The accurate measurement of educational attainment is of great importance for population research. Past studies measuring average years of schooling rely on strong assumptions to incorporate binned data. These assumptions, which we refer to as the standard duration met...
Main Authors: | Joseph Friedman, Nicholas Graetz, Emmanuela Gakidou |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2018-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208019 |
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