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What is the ratio of women to men with less than upper secondary education?

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Values among 41 countries

Indicator metadata and score calculation

Definition:	Population with less than upper secondary attainment, age group 25-64, ratio women/men
Year:	2021
Unit:	Ratio
Direction:	Deviation from optimum
Source 1:	Eurostat Online Database
Data for:	AUT, BEL, BGR, HRV, CYP, CZE, DNK, EST, FIN, FRA, DEU, GRC, HUN, ISL, IRL, ITA, LVA, LTU, LUX, MLT, NLD, NOR, POL, PRT, ROU, SVK, SVN, ESP, SWE, CHE, TUR
Exceptions:	TUR (2020)
Annotation:	Eurostat: Dataset: Population by educational attainment level, sex and age (%) - main indicators [edat_lfse_03] URL: https://ec.europa.eu/eurosta… extracted June 11th, 2022
Source 2:	OECD Online Database
Data for:	AUS, CAN, CHL, ISR, KOR, MEX, NZL, GBR, USA
Exceptions:	AUS (2020), CAN (2020), CHL (2017), ISR (2020), KOR (2020), MEX (2020), NZL (2020), GBR (2020), USA (2020)
Annotation:	OECD: Dataset: Educational attainment and labour-force status URL: https://stats.oecd.org/Index… extracted October 27th, 2021
Source 3:	UNESCO Online Database
Data for:	JPN
Exceptions:	JPN (2010)
Annotation:	Unesco: Dataset: Sustainable Development Goals URL: http://data.uis.unesco.org/I… extracted June 11th, 2022

Calculation:	Long-term data series were used to set appropriate minimum and maximum values.
Minimum:	0
Maximum:	0.795
/	Optimum/Above IQR boundary value. See FAQ for further information.
Optimum:	1
Distance:	Distance=(absolute value(optimum- value for calculation)-minimum)/ (maximum-minimum)
Score:	Score=10-relative distance*9
Annotat.:	Indicator calculated by Margit Kraus (Calculus Consult). For JPN, the indicator value was calculated using data on educational attainment: at least completed upper secondary (ISCED 3 or higher), population 25+ years (value for share of population with less than upper secondary attainment = 100-value for share of population with at least upper secondary attainment).

Top group

Score

Educational Attainment by Gender

France

10.0

1.00

Australia

9.9

1.01

Chile

9.9

0.99

Mexico

9.9

1.01

Bulgaria

9.8

0.98

Greece

9.7

0.97

Germany

9.4

1.05

Netherlands

9.4

0.95

Luxembourg

9.3

0.94

Malta

9.3

0.94

Slovenia

9.3

1.06

Norway

9.0

0.91

Upper middle group

New Zealand

8.9

0.90

8.9

0.90

Belgium

8.8

0.89

Cyprus

8.5

0.87

Italy

8.5

0.87

Sweden

8.5

0.87

Hungary

8.4

1.14

Israel

8.3

0.85

Japan

8.3

1.15

Poland

8.3

0.85

Switzerland

8.3

1.15

Spain

8.1

0.83

USA

8.1

0.83

Portugal

8.0

0.82

Turkey

7.8

1.19

Denmark

7.7

0.80

Romania

7.7

1.20

Iceland

7.6

0.79

Croatia

7.3

1.24

Slovakia

6.9

1.27

Canada

6.6

0.70

Czechia

6.3

1.33

Ireland

6.0

0.65

Lower middle group

Finland

5.9

0.64

Austria

5.5

1.40

Estonia

4.9

0.55

Latvia

4.5

0.51

South Korea

4.0

1.53

Lithuania

3.9

0.46

Bottom group

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