The aim of this section is to provide comparable statistics and indicators on education in the 27 Member States of the European Union, at the regional level NUTS 2. In order to facilitate comparison between countries, data from each Member State are allocated to the various education levels of the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED), UNESCO 1997.

International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED)

The regional breakdown of the EU Member States is based on the  Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS)

For more details, see: Reference Guide (see Annex at the bottom of the page).

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When making international comparisons, it is important to take into account the differences and the most recent changes in the national education and training systems, the reorganisation of the data collection on education statistics and, in particular, the revision of the international classification.
Regional education data are collected and published according to the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS), a harmonised hierarchical classification of territorial units established by EUROSTAT for the production of regional statistics.

Students.

The statistics contained in this dataset refer to education in the ordinary school and university system, as defined in the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED). The data cover full- and part-time-students in public and private establishments. They cover school-based general education and vocational education/training (including combined school- and work-based programmes such as dual system apprenticeship). Exclusively (initial and continuing) work-based training is not included in the statistics.

European Union member states, candidate and EFTA countries.

From school/ academic year 1999/2000.

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Number of students.

The reference period is the school/academic year. In the disseminated tables  2008 stands for the school/academic year 2007/2008 2009 for 2008/2009 and so on.

A gentleman's agreement governs the collection of data.

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Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (recital 24 and Article 20(4)) of 11 March 2009 (OJ L 87, p. 164), stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society.

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Data are disseminated on an annual basis, normally in December.

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In line with the Community legal framework and the European Statistics Code of Practice Eurostat disseminates European statistics on Eurostat's website (see item 10 - 'Accessibility and clarity') respecting professional independence and in an objective, professional and transparent manner in which all users are treated equitably. The detailed arrangements are governed by the Eurostat protocol on impartial access to Eurostat data for users.

Annual.

News releases on-line

Eurostat Regional yearbook.

Please consult free data on-line or refer to contact details.

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See: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat

A Reference Guide (see Annex at the bottom of the page) on regional statistics is produced yearly with information on domain/collection/tables structure and methodological notes.

When applicable, in the Reference Guide (see Annex at the bottom of the page)

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Data are disseminated 1 year after the end of the reference period.

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UK and DE data are collected and published at the regional level NUTS 1.

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The source of data is the joint UIS (UNESCO Institute of Statistics)/OECD/Eurostat (UOE) questionnaires on education statistics, which constitute the core database on education.  The UOE data collection is an administrative data collection that is administered jointly by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation - Institute for Statistics (UNESCO-UIS), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and the Statistical Office of the European Union (EUROSTAT). Data on regional enrolments are collected additionally by Eurostat.

Countries provide data on the basis of commonly agreed definitions.

Moreover, auxiliary data from statistics on demography (e.g. population) are used to calculate some of the indicators.

Annual.

Data are collected through data collection tables and electronic questionnaires that are returned by countries to a unique e-mail address.

Eurostat processes and verifies the data after their reception.

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