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5 kwi 2021 · All social science (and many other) surveys measure respondents’ educational attainment. However, most of them do it in different ways, resulting in incoherent education variables across surveys. This complicates the cumulation of different datasets and hampers survey data reuse.
5 kwi 2021 · All social science (and many other) surveys measure respondents’ educational attainment. However, most of them do it in different ways, resulting in incoherent education variables across surveys.
19 kwi 2016 · There are a number of high-quality social surveys which are specifically designed to collect detailed and comprehensive educational information. 1 Most of the more general and multipurpose social surveys (e.g. large-scale cross-sectional surveys and household panel surveys) also collect information on a respondent’s educational background but us...
There are three basic approaches for output-harmonizing information on educational attain-ment: levels of education, scaled levels of education, and years of education. They will be briey presented here.
variables: levels of education (see Section 9) and fields of education (see Annex IV). ISCED 2011 presents a revision of the ISCED 1997 levels of education classification. It also introduces a related classification of educational attainment levels based on recognised educational qualifications. 4.
Background. Education systems vary a lot between countries. International data on education should therefore be based on a classification which proposes, for all countries of the world, sound criteria for the allocation of education programmes to levels which can be considered as comparable.
The concept of educational attainment . Educational attainment is defined as the highest level of education an individual has successfully completed. Another term typically used in the literature is (highest) ‘educational qualification’.
