🌍 Global Education Analysis: Secondary School Age by Region (2015) - Case Study
This mini case study uses SQL to explore how many people were of official secondary school age in each global region, using World Bank data from 2015.
- Google BigQuery
- World Bank Public Dataset (Google Cloud)
❓ Research Question
In 2015, how many people around the world were of official age for secondary education, broken down by region?
🔍 Methodology
- Used the
international_education
table for education indicator values.
- Joined with
country_summary
to assign countries to regions.
- Filtered for 2015 and the relevant education indicator.
- Aggregated by region using
GROUP BY
, and sorted results with ORDER BY
.
💡 Key Learnings
- Practiced multi-table joins in SQL.
- Learned how to clean and filter large public datasets.
- Gained insight into using demographic data for real-world planning.
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