Exercise 2 31 300 students completed a higher education in Norway in 2004/05 Give me: Statistical unit, Variable, Population At least one property of your choosen Statistical unit In general, give me the model properties (= fields in your metadata database) of Statistical unit, Population, Variable.

Interpretation 31 300 students from all of world completed a higher education in Norway in 2004/05 Norwegian Institutes of higher education issued 31 300 diplomas to persons in 2004/2005 Norwegian Institutes of higher indication issued diplomas to 31 300 different (Norwegian?) persons in 2004/2005 In an Eurostat table Norway could be a class of EU countries. So ‘students completed a higher education’ is a property of the country Norway

Solutions Population Population Statistical unit Variable Norwegians person Higher education completed in reference period (yes/no) or Year of completed higher education or ….. People living in Norway Students on Norwegian schools Student (person?) Issued Diplomas Diploma Higher education completed Countries Country Number of students completed higher education

At least one property of your choosen Statistical unit Person: age, name, adress, income, etc

General Properties Name Id code Description Owner External sources Author Status Version Date stamps everywhere Free text Synonyms

General Properties etc Name Id code Description Owner External sources Author Status Version Date stamps Free text Synonyms etc

Special properties Variables Belongs to one Statistical unit (Model property). Yes or no? Measurement unit (could be variable) Multiplication factor (could be variable) Underlying definition

Special properties Population Belongs to one Statistical unit Time indication (period (monthly, quarterly etc.) or time stamp Demarcation (region etc)