Intergenerational Persistence in Education

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: intergenerational-persistence-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Intergenerational Persistence in Education: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2017	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	153	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	153	0
Correlation between own and parents' years of schooling, born 1980–89 (0–1)education_persistenceHeadline	The headline figure: Correlation between own and parents' years of schooling, born 1980–89 (0–1).	Number · up to 8 decimals	0.12345Maldives0.66012Bulgariamiddle 0.44601	153	0
Expected schooling rank of a child of bottom-half parents (0–100)upward_mobilityMeasure	Expected rank in their generation’s schooling, from 0 to 100, of a person whose parents were in the bottom half of theirs; higher means more upward mobility.	Number · up to 6 decimals	28.847Republic of the Congo53.110Bhutanmiddle 39.761	153	0
Chance a child of bottom-half parents reaches the top quarter (0–1)bottom_half_to_top_quarterMeasure	Chance, from 0 to 1, that a person whose parents were in the bottom half of their generation’s schooling reaches the top quarter of their own.	Number · up to 9 decimals	0.06979Cameroon0.24434Mauritiusmiddle 0.13919	153	0
How parents' schooling was recordedparent_dataLabel	How parents’ schooling was recorded: adults asked about their parents, young adults still living with their parents, or a mix of the two.	Text	—	3	0
Survey yearsurvey_yearReading year	The year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side.	Year	—	14	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.

One edition, covering 153 countries.

Not in this dataset · 72 places this site covers

World Bank Group gives no figure for these in any edition held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

AlgeriaAmerican SamoaAndorraAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaBahamasBahrainBarbadosBelizeBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsBruneiCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCook IslandsCubaCuraçaoDominicaEquatorial GuineaEritreaFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaGuamGuyanaHong KongIsle of ManJamaicaKuwaitLibyaLiechtensteinLuxembourgMacauMaltaMarshall IslandsMicronesiaMonacoMontserratNauruNew CaledoniaNiueNorth KoreaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsOmanPalauPuerto RicoQatarSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSamoaSan MarinoSaudi ArabiaSeychellesSingaporeSint MaartenSomaliaSomalilandSurinameSyriaTrinidad and TobagoTurkmenistanTurks and Caicos IslandsUnited Arab EmiratesUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican CityZimbabwe

1. 1 · Publisher

   World Bank Group

   datacatalog.worldbank.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Intergenerational Persistence in Education 2017

   GDIM_2023_03.csv

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 29, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   1 file, one per edition

   It downloads as a CSV: intergenerational-persistence-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/intergenerational-persistence

From the World Bank’s Global Database on Intergenerational Mobility, reading the combination its own maps use: the better-schooled parent and all children. Two measures of absolute upward mobility for the same people are stored beside it.

• Charted

  Intergenerational Persistence in Education by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Poverty & Inequality
  • Education & Knowledge

• Near neighbours

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