Website: Statistics: Education and training

Education and training statistics provide information on the participation of individuals in education and training activities, education financing and teaching staff as well as on outcomes of education.

Education and training statistics cover the following aspects:

Education systems
- Pupils and students enrolled and new entrants
- Graduates
- Student mobility
- Educational personnel
- Education expenditure

Lifelong learning
- Participation of adults in education and training
- Characteristics of the adult learning
- Obstacles to adults' participation in education and training
- Continuing vocational training in enterprises

Educational attainment level of the population

Transition from education to work
- Young people neither in employment nor in education and training (NEET)
- Early leavers from education and training
- Labour status of young people shortly after graduation

Languages
- Language learning
- Self-reported language skills

The main classification used in education and training statistics is the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED), developed by UNESCO. Education systems vary across countries and the ISCED provides internationally agreed definitions for the classification of education programmes which are essential for the production of comparable statistics.