Intergenerational educational mobility

The dataset contains modified Living Standards Measurment Survey (LSMS) data from eight African countries: Cote D'  Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Malawi, Madagascar, Niger, Nigeria and Uganda that is used for the analysis in the thesis. The dataset is saved in Stata format (.dta) and can be opened using Stata software. The information contained in the country level data sets includes individual and parental education (converted into years of schooling), the average education of the parental ethnic group (converted into years of schooling), the ethnicity, age and sex of the individuals, and average sizes of the household. The pooled dataset further contains the variable country which is the country identifier.

该数据集收录了来自八个非洲国家（科特迪瓦、加纳、几内亚、马拉维、马达加斯加、尼日尔、尼日利亚和乌干达）修改后的生活水平测量调查（LSMS）数据，这些数据被用于论文的分析。数据集以 Stata 格式（.dta）保存，并可通过 Stata 软件打开。国家层面数据集包含的信息包括个体及其父母的受教育程度（转换为学年数）、父母民族群体的平均受教育程度（转换为学年数）、民族、个体的年龄和性别，以及家庭平均规模。合并后的数据集还包含国家标识符这一变量。