Cross-Country Dataset on Women’s Education, Gender Development, and Economic Sustainability

This dataset supports the study examining the relationship between women’s education and economic sustainability and the moderating role of the Gender Development Index (GDI) across countries. The repository provides the complete materials used for data preparation, analysis, validation, and visualization to enhance transparency, reproducibility, and future research use. The repository includes the original data files obtained from publicly available international databases, including the World Bank Gender Statistics Database, the International Monetary Fund Gender Equality Database, and the Sustainable Development Report 2025. It also contains the cleaned and integrated cross-country dataset developed by merging the relevant indicators and addressing data completeness and consistency. Women’s education is represented through a composite Education Index derived using Principal Component Analysis (PCA), while economic sustainability is operationalized using indicators related to SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth), SDG 9 (Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure), and SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities). The dataset additionally includes the Gender Development Index, GDP per capita, urbanization, and alternative measures of sustainable development used for robustness analysis. The repository also provides the complete Python analysis code used for data processing, descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, multicollinearity assessment, hierarchical regression analysis, moderation testing, robustness analysis, and marginal effects estimation. The corresponding statistical outputs, including descriptive results, regression estimates, model comparisons, and robustness results, are included to facilitate verification and replication. All tables and publication-quality figures generated during the analysis, including the correlation heatmap, standardized coefficient plot, interaction visualization, and marginal effects plot, are also provided. Collectively, these materials enable researchers to reproduce the analytical procedures, validate the reported findings, conduct additional analyses, and extend research on women’s education, gender development, economic sustainability, and the Sustainable Development Goals.