Information on educational systems of origin countries' educational systems has been derived from World Data on Education 2006/2007.
Summary data on education levels and the percentage of tertiary educated by occupational grouping is illustrated in Figure 1.
The report used data on education spending from the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation's (Unesco) 2015 Education for All report (pdf) and Chatham House estimates for heath spending.
He and another researcher, Mohammad Siahpush, a professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, developed an index to measure social and economic conditions in every county, using census data on education, income, poverty, housing and other factors.
Information on the environment comes far lower on the bureaucratic pecking order than data on education or social affairs, which tend to be overseen by ministries with bigger budgets and more political clout.
Fig. 5 Missing data on education level as a share of all observations, with and without imputation.
Data on education are obtained from the annual labour force survey and are matched with the wage data.
In total, we imputed 42% of data on education level for immigrants at the time of migration.
Still, the data on education mobility whether an adult child completed more education than his or her parents did are sobering.
Figure 5 shows that the percentage of missing data on education level in each year becomes more homogenous based on imputed data compared with the shares of missing observations in the original data.
On their own accord, bridge program administrators are collecting data on education and employment outcomes.
