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Educational attainment in Brazil since 1920

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Brazil is likely to reach the Millennium Development Goal of universal primary education by 2015 . According to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), 94 percent of all children of primary school age (7 to 10 years) were enrolled in primary school in 2005. Data from the 2006 National Household Sample Survey (Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de DomicĂ­lios, PNAD), analyzed in an article on school attendance in Brazil , show that 99 percent of all children between 7 and 10 years were in pre-primary, primary or secondary education. PNAD data can also be used to demonstrate how the education system in Brazil has expanded over the past decades. The PNAD survey collected information on the highest level of education attended for all persons in the sample. By comparing the highest level of education of persons born in different years it is possible to show the change in school attendance patterns over time. The following graph displays the highest level of education for persons born between...

Update to Stata guide

I revised the guide to integrating the Stata statistical package with an external text editor . The programs described in the guide allow the execution of Stata commands directly from an external editor. The programs have been confirmed to work under Windows Vista, using the same installation procedure as for Windows XP. Most graphs and maps on this site were created with Stata. Related articles Guide to integrating Stata and external text editors Guide to creating maps with Stata Guide to creating PNG images with Stata External links Stata Friedrich Huebler, 8 January 2009, Creative Commons License Permanent URL: http://huebler.blogspot.com/2009/01/stata.html