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1.1. Contact organisation | Statistics Sweden |
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1.2. Contact organisation unit | Department of social statistics and analysis Unit for labour market and education |
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1.5. Contact mail address | Statistics Sweden |
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2.1. Data description | |||
The statistics of the Swedish Education System is used for follow up, evaluate and improve the quality and outcome in the school system. Further information on data flagged ‘d’ in the database is available to download from the Annex of the Metadata page for Education administrative data from 2013 onwards (ISCED 2011): https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/metadata/en/educ_uoe_enr_esms.htm |
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2.2. Classification system | |||
International Standard Classification of Education 2011 (ISCED 2011) |
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2.3. Coverage - sector | |||
Education, number of students, teachers and spending |
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2.4. Statistical concepts and definitions | |||
Age, type of institution, grade, level of education |
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2.5. Statistical unit | |||
Children in early childhood education and care, students, teachers, school management personnel, education expenditure |
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2.6. Statistical population | |||
Children, students, personnel and expenditure within the Swedish educational system |
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2.7. Reference area | |||
Sweden |
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2.8. Coverage - Time | |||
School year 2019/2020 |
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2.9. Base period | |||
Not available. |
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3.1. Source data | |||
Enrolment (national and regional level) Entrants Personnel Foreign languages learning Graduates Finance |
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3.2. Frequency of data collection | |||
Annual. |
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3.3. Data collection | |||
Information on number of children in early childhood education and care, students and teachers is gathered through online surveys and exports of administrative data. Information on expenditure is collected from administrative registers. |
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3.4. Data validation | |||
Data are validated through automatic control functions in the data collection system and also manually revised by experts. |
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3.5. Data compilation | |||
Operations performed on data to derive new information according to a given set of rules
Estimations methods used in the UOE questionnaires |
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3.6. Adjustment | |||
Not applicable. |
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4.1. Quality assurance | |||
There are built-in controls in the system to prevent logical errors. Schools get feedback in order to correct errors before publishing. |
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4.2. Quality management - assessment | |||
The statistics are based on education census where each is considered to be of good quality with no known errors. |
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5.1. Relevance - User Needs | |||
The most important users are the Swedish National Agency for Education (National Monitoring System and Official Statistics), Forecasting Institute of Statistics Sweden, Ministry of Education, Swedish Higher Education Authority, school units, municipalities and other school heads, companies, researchers and media. |
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5.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction | |||
The user council of the Swedish official statistics of population, demography and education has influence on the relevance of education statistics in general. |
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5.3. Completeness | |||
Graduates Vocational training Programs shorter than one semester (or Implementation of the semester rule) Early childhood education programs Special education needs (SNE) programs Adult education programs and "continuing education" Adult education programs are included in the data and the national definition of “adult” or “continuing” education does fully comply with the category as defined by the UOE manual. Programs that classifies as "non-formal” are excluded from the data. Students enrolled in educational institutions organized by ministries other than ministry of education Distance learning / e-learning programs Students participating in exchange programs (credit mobile students) Foreign languages learning Orientation of program in tertiary education |
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5.3.1. Data completeness - rate | |||
Not available. |
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6.1. Accuracy - overall | |||
The overall assessment is that the statistics published are of good quality with no known errors. |
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6.2. Sampling error | |||
The statistics are based on education census and are therefore not affected by any selection uncertainty. |
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6.2.1. Sampling error - indicators | |||
Not applicable. |
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6.3. Non-sampling error | |||
see below |
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6.3.1. Coverage error | |||
Programs of shorter duration than one semester Programs of shorter duration than one semester, full time equivalent duration as defined nationally, exist and their duration (shorter than one semester) is known. For tertiary education, courses shorter than one term are included and assumed to be part of a longer program. For ISCED 4, programs shorter than 18 weeks are excluded. Domestic educational activities Enrolments Entrants Foreign languages learning Personnel |
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6.3.1.1. Over-coverage - rate | |||
Not applicable. |
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6.3.1.2. Common units - proportion | |||
Not applicable. |
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6.3.2. Measurement error | |||
Class size is a freetext variable in our national data collection and the quality is not guaranteed. Since class size is administrative data there is no guarantee it matches the actual number of students in the class room. |
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6.3.3. Non response error | |||
In some of the surveys that constitute the basis for statistics, units might be missing. School units report students without a Swedish social security number or with protected identity by creating a temporary social security number not found elsewhere. This means that background variables such as country of birth, residence, first immigration date and education level are missing for these students. None of these errors are considered to significantly affect the reliability of official statistics. |
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6.3.3.1. Unit non-response - rate | |||
Not applicable. |
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6.3.3.2. Item non-response - rate | |||
Not applicable. |
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6.3.4. Processing error | |||
There is no indication that there are any errors from the processing phase that can significally affect the statistics. |
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6.3.4.1. Imputation - rate | |||
Not applicable. |
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6.3.5. Model assumption error | |||
Not applicable. |
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6.4. Seasonal adjustment | |||
Not applicable. |
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6.5. Data revision - policy | |||
Not available. |
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6.6. Data revision - practice | |||
Not available |
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6.6.1. Data revision - average size | |||
Not available. |
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7.1. Timeliness | |||
Information related to the latest reference year (academic year t-t+1, or financial year t) Enrolment in higher education Graduates from higher education Personnel higher education Expenditure higher education Enrolment and personnel ISCED 0-2 Enrolment and personnel ISCED 3-4 Educational expenditure ISCED 0-4 Secondary education for adults |
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7.1.1. Time lag - first result | |||
Not available. |
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7.1.2. Time lag - final result | |||
Not available. |
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7.2. Punctuality | |||
see below |
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7.2.1. Punctuality - delivery and publication | |||
Submission dates for the latest reference year (academic year t-t+1, or financial year t)
Deadline for transmission of data: 30 November of t+2 |
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8.1. Comparability - geographical | |||
Different periods of reference Swedish for immigrants and primary and secondary adult education (komvux) are reported per calendar year. All other programs by school/academic year Foreign languages learning Finance |
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8.1.1. Asymmetry for mirror flow statistics - coefficient | |||
Not applicable. |
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8.2. Comparability - over time | |||
Enrolments The Swedish UOE data collection has been changed in methodology from UOE 2020 (18/19) for the questionnaires of ENRL, REGIO, ENTR, GRAD and LANG, which affects different measures and ISCED levels in different ways. The measures of number of full-time and part-time students has been pro-rated in a more accurate way. From UOE 2017 (15/16), all students in upper secondary vocational education is classified at level 353. This is due to the upper secondary reform implemented in 2011 the upper secondary vocational programmes. We do not know if the students will end up with or without access to tertiary during the programme so 354 is included in 353. Students (ISCED 1 and 2) in confessional schools have up till UOE 2015 been reported under public. From UOE 2016 confessional schools are reported as private. UOE 2016 was the last time we reported Supplementary education programs for adults (KU). These pgms were at ISCED 4 and had about 5 000 students enrolled school year 14/15 and 0 students in 15/16. The programs are replaced by "Arts and Cultural Education" in UOE 2018. Personnel For ISCED 0 the distinction between different personnel categories (teachers, teacher aides) is classified by educational attainment from UOE 2020 (18/19). Only personnel with a degree from a pre-school teacher program (ISCED 6) are classified as teachers, all other personnel is classified as teacher aides. In previous years no distinction was made between teachers and teachers aides, all reported as teachers. Foreign languages learning Graduates The Swedish UOE data collection has been changed in methodology from UOE 2020 (18/19).Graduates are counted in the same way as previous years but checks between all school forms within each ISCED level are introduced, not only tertiary. From the introduction of the new upper secondary reform (GY11) in reference year 13/14, there is a graduation (examen) from upper secondary. Previously, those with a "final grade" were regarded sa "graduates". In the new system, it's more difficult to "graduate" and the numbers have gone down gradually the last years. Further, graduates include (a) those with exam and (b) those with leaving certificate of at least 2500 credits (studiebevis). The latter group is regarded as "partial completion". Education expenditure New school forms in UOE 2018 |
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8.2.1. Length of comparable time series | |||
Not available. |
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8.3. Coherence - cross domain | |||
Not applicable |
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8.4. Coherence - sub annual and annual statistics | |||
Not available. |
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8.5. Coherence - National Accounts | |||
Efforts have been made in order to better aligne with the National accounts. |
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8.6. Coherence - internal | |||
Not available. |
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9.1. Dissemination format - News release | |||
Not available. |
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9.2. Dissemination format - Publications | |||
Not available. |
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9.3. Dissemination format - online database | |||
Not available. |
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9.3.1. Data tables - consultations | |||
Not available. |
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9.4. Dissemination format - microdata access | |||
Not available. |
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9.5. Dissemination format - other | |||
Not available. |
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9.6. Documentation on methodology | |||
Not available. |
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9.7. Quality management - documentation | |||
Not available. |
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9.7.1. Metadata completeness - rate | |||
Not available. |
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9.7.2. Metadata - consultations | |||
Not available. |
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Approximation: 30 days of supervising, coordinating and summing up the various collections from different school forms, including respodning to follow up questions from UOE team and making corrections. In addition the work of 10 colleagues collecting/filling in forms for different school forms. In total 80 working days. |
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11.1. Confidentiality - policy | |||
Not available. |
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11.2. Confidentiality - data treatment | |||
Not available. |
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The Swedish definition of mobile students will remain the same as previous years. It has earlier been agreed by Eurostat and OECD that the Swedish national definition is better suited to identify mobile students than using the country of upper secondary diploma. International students are defined as students who have a student residence permit or are either non-residents or have moved to Sweden not more than six months before starting their studies. For students at ISCED 8 the time limit is 24 months. Students with student residence permit are reported by country of citizenship while other students are reported by country of birth. Exchange students are not included in the definition above. Homecoming nationals are reported as national students. The main difference compared to classifying all students with a foreign upper secondary diploma as mobile is that Sweden can exclude immigrants who have immigrated for other reasons than studying in higher education, who later start studying in higher education. This means that Sweden can better meet the requirement in the definition that a mobile student should have crossed the border with the objective of studying than would have been the case if the criterion had only been having a foreign upper secondary diploma. |
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Annex 1 - Provisions for language learning 2021 – Sweden Annex 2 - ISCED Mapping for schoolyear 2020/2021 (UOE2022) – Sweden |