International and Comparative Education Statistics: Overview

International and comparative education is concerned with cross-national comparison and understanding of educational issues, management, learning, trends, and policies, and the socioeconomic and other factors that have impact on education. In this guide, you'll find information on source organizations and datasets to consult for quantitative data on this topic.

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You'll find many datasets in the Data Planet repository that are relevant to coursework in this area:

• Explore gender differences in educational participation and attainment within and across nations.
• Contrast and compare the progress of nations toward meeting UN Millennium Development Goals related to education, gender equality, and more.
• Explore statistics relevant to the socioeconomic development of African nations.
• Analyze trends in literacy rates.
• Explore potential relationships among socioeconomic conditions, eg, child employment, and educational outcomes

....and much, much more. 

In this search guide, specific sources and datasets are highlighted to illuminate how the statistics they contain may relate to your research on global issues.

Data Planet is a web-based teaching and learning application that provides fast and easy access to data from licensed and public domain datasets within an easy-to-use interface. With this dynamic tool, you can scan the contents of the collection, select subjects and variables of interest, and view your data in side-by-side tables and charts. 

The Data Planet repository contains more than 65 billion datasets sourced from 90+ source organizations. There are billions of charts, maps, views, rankings, time series and tables available for use in the Data Planet repository. All of the data have been standardized and structured, and are described with up to 37 fields of metadata, including a controlled vocabulary.  

Statistical Datasets has a basic module and several premium datasets. Click here for a listing of datasets and sources available in the repository.

The premium datasets are:

• China Data Institute (National/Subnational data)
• Claritas Consumer Profiles
• Claritas Financial and Insurance Clout
• EASI Market Planner   
• Data Axle Reference Solutions
• Woods and Poole Complete U.S. Database

To see which datasets are included in Data Planet, go to the Data Planet home page and view the "Browse Data by" section to see which Subjects and Sources are available to begin your search.  

Subject Browse:

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All datasets are also visible within the "Datasets" page using tabbed browsing via the left-hand navigation:

If your institution subscribes to any premium datasets, they will appear in the left-hand navigation on the "Featured" tab, as well as within the appropriate Subject and Source tab listings.. 

For a full listing of datasets available in Data Planet Statistical Datasets, and the sources of these datasets, see Data Planet Datasets and Sources.