Long-run Brazilian mean years of schooling reconstructed by Walter &
Kang (2023) from Censuses and household surveys. The dataset is the
internal backing store consumed by get_schooling(); end-users
should call that function rather than loading this object directly.
Format
A tibble with approximately 2 300 rows and 12 columns:
- year
integer. Reference year (1925–2015). BR-level series starts in 1925; region and UF series start in 1950.- geo_level
character."BR","region", or"UF".- geo_code
character."BR"for national; IBGE single/double- letter macro-region code ("N","NE","CO","SE","S"); or IBGE 2-letter UF code.- geo_name
character. Human-readable geographic name in Portuguese.- dim_race
character. Race/colour dimension:"white","black","brown","asian","indigenous", or"total". Race breakdown available at BR level only.- dim_sex
character. Sex:"male","female", or"total". Sex breakdown available at BR level only.- age_group
character. AlwaysNAin this dataset; included for schema compatibility.- indicator
character. Always"mean_years_schooling".- value
double. Mean years of schooling of the adult population.- unit
character. Always"years".- source
character. Always"walter_kang_2023".- source_note
character. Inline bibliographic reference.