Reconstructing Educational Attainment of Populations in the 20th Century
30 OCT 2017
The EDU20C project reconstructs the changes in the educational composition of populations by age and sex during the 20th century for a large number of countries, using the methodology of back-projections. The reconstructed data is now available and can be accessed at: http://www.edu20c.org
Corresponding Research Areas: Human Capital Data Lab
The Wittgenstein Centre aspires to be a world leader in the advancement of demographic methods and their application to the analysis of human capital and population dynamics. In assessing the effects of these forces on long-term human well-being, we combine scientific excellence in a multidisciplinary context with relevance to a global audience. It is a collaboration among the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the University of Vienna.