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Mean years of schooling (MYS), the average number of completed years of education of a population, is a widely used measure of a country's stock of human capital. Since 2010, MYS is used as one of two education indicators (the second education indicator is the school life expectancy) in the calculation of the Human Development Index (HDI) (UNDP, 2010). A well-known data set with estimates of MYS was developed by Robert Barro and Jong-Wha Lee, two pioneers in this field of work. In 1993, Barro and Lee published an article describing their data set, which was partly derived from data on educational attainment by the Division of Statistics of UNESCO. Barro and Lee continue to update their data set, which is available at their website . In December 2013, the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), the successor of the Division of Statistics of UNESCO, published its first estimates of MYS of the population aged 25 years and older. This indicator, used in the calculation of the HDI, h...

The rundo and rundolines programs for integrating Stata with an external text editor were updated to version 4.1 to be compatible with Stata 13. The user guide for the rundo and rundolines programs was also revised. Changes include: All Stata references in the guide were updated to version 13.1, the most recent version as of December 2013. The troubleshooting section was expanded. All broken links in the user guide were repaired. The formatting of the guide was modified so that it is retained when the blog translation tool is used to read the guide in a different language. Stata/SE 13.1 program window External links Stata (official site) Related articles Guide to integrating Stata and external text editors Guide to creating maps with Stata Blog translation Friedrich Huebler, 22 December 2013, Creative Commons License Permanent URL: http://huebler.blogspot.com/2013/12/stata.html