Education Component of SHDI

Education Component of SHDI. The educational dimension is measured with two indicators. The first one, mean years of schooling of adults aged 25+ (MYS), reflects the current situation with regard to education in a society. The second one, expected years of schooling (EYS), indicates the future level of education of the population. EYS is defined as the number of years of schooling a child of school entrance age can expect to receive, if prevailing patterns of age-specific enrolment rates persist throughout the child’s schooling life. When computing the dimension index for education, the values of MYS and EYS are weighted equally.

For most Low- and Middle Income Countries (LMICs), both variables could be directly obtained from the Global Data Lab Education and Work Database.

To create the dimension indices and SHDI on the basis of the four indicators (mean years of schooling of adults aged 25+, expected years of schooling, life expectancy, and gross national income per capita) the same procedures were used as are used by the UNDP to compute the regular HDI. To obtain the dimension index for education, the geometric mean of the separate indices for expected years of schooling and mean years of schooling is taken.

For a complete list of sources and surveys used, please refer to the Data Sources page.