Education and training
Legislation
Education and training statistics are based on the following data sources:
- Education systems - joint UNESCO-OECD-Eurostat data collection (UOE)
- Adult Education Survey (AES)
- Continuing Vocational Training Survey (CVTS)
- Labour Force Survey (LFS)
The basic legal acts for education and training statistics are:
- UOE and AES: Regulation (EC) No 452/2008 of 23 April 2008 concerning the production and development of statistics on education and lifelong learning
- CVTS: Regulation (EC) No 1552/2005 of 7 September 2005 on statistics relating to vocational training in enterprises (or its consolidated version)
- LFS: see LFS legislation
The following implementing regulations specify the details for data collection:
- Education systems (UOE)
- School year 2010-2011 and 2011-2012: Commission Regulation (EU) No 88/2011 of 2 February 2011 as regards statistics on education and training systems; derogations
- From school year 2012-2013 onwards: Commission Regulation (EU) No 912/2013 of 23 September 2013 as regards statistics on education and training systems; derogations
- Adult Education Survey (AES)
- 2011 AES: Commission Regulation (EU) No 823/2010 of 17 September 2010 as regards statistics on the participation of adults in lifelong learning; derogations
- 2016 AES: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1175/2014 of 30 October 2014 as regards statistics on the participation of adults in lifelong learning; derogations
- Continuing Vocational Training Survey (CVTS)
- CVTS 3 (2005): Commission Regulation (EC) No 198/2006 of 3 February 2006 on statistics relating to vocational training in enterprises
- CVTS 4 (2010): Commission Regulation (EU) No 822/2010 of 17 September 2010 on statistics relating to vocational training in enterprises, as regards the data to be collected, the sampling, precision and quality requirements (see also the consolidated version of Commission Regulation (EC) No 198/2006)
- CVTS 5 (2015): Commission Regulation (EU) No 1153/2014 of 29 October 2014 as regards the data to be collected, and the sampling, precision and quality requirements (see also the consolidated version of Commission Regulation (EC) No 198/2006)