Education
The aim of this domain is to provide comparable data, statistics and indicators on education for the EU-27, the candidate countries, EEA countries, Switzerland, Albania, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, USA and Japan. The main data source is the set of joint UOE (Unesco Institute of Statistics (UIS), OECD, Eurostat) questionnaires on education and other Eurostat-specific tables. The statistics refer to public and private, full-time and part-time education in the ordinary school and university system as defined in the international standard classification of education (ISCED). The statistics cover enrolments, entrants, graduates, personnel, language learning and expenditure.
Training
The continuing vocational training survey (CVTS) provides comparable statistical results on training and non-training enterprises, the supply of and the demand for vocational skills, the need for CVT and the forms, content and volume of CVT, the use of enterprises’ own training resources and of external providers, cost of CVT courses as well as the importance of initial vocational training (from 2005 e.g. apprenticeships). The survey covers enterprises with 10 and more employees in Sections C to K and O of the statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community (NACE Rev. 1).
The first continuing vocational training survey carried out at EU level in a coordinated form covered 12 EU Member States for the reference year 1993. The second European survey was conducted in 2000/01 with the reference year 1999 in the all EU-27 Member States but Cyprus, Malta and Slovakia as well as in Norway. The third survey covered all EU-27 Member States and Norway for the reference year 2005.
The Adult Education Survey provides data on the structure of participation of adults in lifelong learning activities (age group 25-64 years old). Statistics are gradually being made available for EU countries as well as Croatia, Turkey and Norway (18 country data sets were published in November 2008). The Adult Education Survey is a pilot exercise at EU level and data includes patterns of participation in formal and non-formal education and training, reasons for participation, obstacles to participation, costs of participation as well as types and intensity of participation.
