1. Exercise 2
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.

2. Interpretation
students from all of world completed a higher education in Norway in 2004/05
Norwegian Institutes of higher education issued diplomas to persons in 2004/2005
Norwegian Institutes of higher indication issued diplomas to 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

3. 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

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

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

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

7. 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

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