Fig 1.
Provincial-level Education Index by quartiles in 2014 and annual mean variation. 2006 and 2014.
Notes: the Galapagos region was removed since it was not subject to analysis; the provinces of Santo Domingo and Santa Elena are included in Pichincha and Guayas, respectively; approximate results for the provinces of Amazonia in 2006 due to lack of representativeness in the survey. PEI = Provincial-level education index; AMV = annual mean variation; AMV = (PEI(2014)–PEI(2006))/(2014–2006).
Table 1.
Ecuadorian provinces according to their level of educational development (2014).
Fig 2.
Distribution of the Provincial-level Education Index and its components.
Notes: Each line represents the density function of the corresponding distribution. MYS = mean years of schooling index; EYS = expected years of schooling index: PEI = Provincial-level Education Index.
Fig 3.
Provincial distribution of the annual mean variation between 2006 and 2014 of the mean years of schooling and the expected years of schooling indices.
Notes: Each line represents the density function of the corresponding distribution. MYS = mean years of schooling index; EYS = expected years of schooling index.
Table 2.
Provincial-level Education Index and its components: Spearman´s rank correlation coefficient between the index in 2006 and its annual mean variation (2006–2014).
Table 3.
Inequality in educational development and contribution of education indicators.
Table 4.
Descriptive summaries of education indicators.
Fig 4.
Provincial contribution to educational development overall inequality (%).
Fig 5.
Comparison between the values of the Provincial-level Education Index of the provinces with the highest and lowest value of said index and the values of the education index of the Human Development Index for countries with an upper-middle income in Latin-America and the Caribbean.
2014. Note: Upper-middle income countries in 2014 are those with a gross national income per capita of between $4,126 and $12,735 according to the World Bank classification in 2014 [99].