05 February 2006

Maps with international education statistics

Maps are a powerful tool to visualize statistics. This site uses maps for cross-country comparisons of data like national primary school enrollment rates, shown in the map below.

Primary school net enrollment rate, 2002/2003
Map of the world showing primary school net enrollment rate for each country in 2002/03
Data source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). 2005. Global Education Digest 2005. Montreal: UIS.

Here is a list of articles on this site that include maps with international education statistics:
My recently updated guide to creating maps with Stata shows how the Stata statistical package and its tmap module can be used to create these and other maps.

Friedrich Huebler, 5 February 2006 (edited 30 March 2006), Creative Commons License

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