Education and Training Statistics Working Group - 19-20 June 2014 Item 6.3 – Guidelines on the measurement of educational attainment in household surveys Marta Beck Eurostat F5 Education and Training Statistics Working Group - 19-20 June 2014
Education and Training Statistics Working Group - 19-20 June 2014 State of play: Current version of guidelines - 2nd one, after that approved by ETS WG in April 2013; Meantime: consultation with the OECD INES LSO Network (main issue discussed – treatment of partial completion); ISCED mappings review elaboration of ISCED JOM Changes in relation to the 1st version - not substantial, concerning better clarity of the text (also English proof-reading done), e.g.: more explanations on borderline cases additional precisions in chapter 3 slightly different presentation of ISCED mappings (updated for 2014). Education and Training Statistics Working Group - 19-20 June 2014
Guidelines - common for EU and OECD countries Text of the document - only common statements, no reference to specific EU or OECD statistics (EU-LFS coding also deleted) For clarity purpose - annex with explanations on the treatment of partial completion of ISCED level 3 in EU surveys and statistics: important for surveys collecting educational attainment data at 1-digit level explanation of the reasons of the EU approach educational attainment resulting from completion of programmes 342/353 – in ISCED level 3 at 1-digit level (but more detailed information will be available from the EU-LFS and AES) partial level completion not counted in the "Early school leavers" treatment of partial completion will be explained in metadata Education and Training Statistics Working Group - 19-20 June 2014
Guidelines on educational attainment The ETS Working Group members are invited: to comment the 2nd version of the guidelines (including annex); to approve these guidelines. Education and Training Statistics Working Group - 19-20 June 2014
Thank you for your attention! Marta Beck-Domzalska@ec.europa.eu Education and Training Statistics Working Group - 19-20 June 2014
Education and Training Statistics Working Group - 19-20 June 2014 Questions: ISCED-A for persons completing programme 441/451: 343/353 or 344/354?.. Education and Training Statistics Working Group - 19-20 June 2014