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. <br> <br>

本数据集包含经修改的生活水平衡量调查（Living Standards Measurment Survey，LSMS）数据，采集自科特迪瓦、加纳、几内亚、马拉维、马达加斯加、尼日尔、尼日利亚及乌干达共8个非洲国家，该数据集用于本学位论文的分析工作。

本数据集以Stata格式（.dta）存储，可通过Stata软件打开。

各国别级数据集包含的信息涵盖：个体及其父母的受教育程度（已转换为受教育年限）、父母所属族群的平均受教育水平（同样转换为受教育年限）、个体的族裔、年龄与性别，以及家庭平均规模。

合并数据集还包含名为"country"的变量，该变量为国家标识符。