1. Cooperation with the ministries of education
Users and providers
Formal and non formal cooperation
Mutual and opposing interests

2. Different aspects of our cooperation with the ministries
Formal cooperation
Potentially conflicting interests
Non-formal cooperation
Data exchange and data collection

3. Formal cooperation – contractual obligations
Co-financing of the statistical production of educational data
For us to be able to produce our sequential register
For them to be able to access these data
Specific contracts for certain new data collections
Expanded collection of data from the universities
Expanded data collection concerning children with special needs

4. Interchanging data with the ministries

5. The Education Register: education from cradle to the grave
Established in the early 1970's as a longitudinal register
Contents:
Education code
Start date
End date
Institution

6. Non formal cooperation
Visits to all relevant offices in the ministries
Seminars regarding quality
Faster data production
New publications
A new common educational classification based on ISCED
More insight and information about the production process
Regular meeting activities – presenting new initiatives for all interested in educational statistics
Visits to educational institutions like universities and basic schools

7. Search for errors, corrections and
Educational Institutions
System suppliers
It system support for
Search for errors, corrections and
recoding
Validation
Recoding to format used by DST
Control of mayor fluctuations etc.
Delivery of data
Delivery of data

8. Other achievements ‘based on’ non-formal cooperation:
More insight in the production process
Detailed information on the production process is available on our homepage
Formalized information level upon data delivery
Seminars and meetings to clarify any major uncertainties
The contracts are being revised to comply with these concerns
Cooperation with all relevant ministries to develop a new educational classification:
One commonly used classification
A classification based on ISCED
A classification accepted by all ministries
A more correct classification
New publications:
Moving from an education to
the labour market
Background information related to obtaining an education
Number of students in a basic school class
Movements between bachelor and candidate levels at the universities
Publications on children with special needs

9. Potentially conflicting interest
Who is the main source of educational statistics?
On which terms can the ministries use our data?
Who will gather and control the data?
Is the relation between the ministries and Statistics Denmark equal in terms of obligations and rights - or does ‘money talk’?

10. Thank you very much for your attention