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Population and Education, Social Statistics
Susanne Mainz Sørensen
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The Education Transition Register

In The Education Transition Register the central unit is education groups instead of individual programs. The Education Transition Register looks at these group of educations and the students are followed through a education group with the new elections and institutional changes that may occur.

Data description

The Education Transition Register is a group-oriented version of The Student Register, where education are grouped and careers divided into "packets" of education. A group (packet) is defined as a sequence of education in a person's career with the same education code UDD.

A group is limited in time by the first record in the group and going forward until:

• First departure with competence (KOMP = 1, 3) • Last record in the group. (followed by the record in the new group or last record in the person's career)

With this approach to the group of programs, the large currents in the educational system is described, while the shifts that occur along the way is recorded. The Education Transition Register looks ex at vocational training and describes how many of those who start in the group who completes the group. Some of the students will change education so the program he or she ends up with, is not the one he / she started. Note that a person can have the same group several times. They will then be separated in time by another group or the group is completed with competence and then the student restarts in the group on a new education or continue at the same training at a higher level.

Classification system

In The Education Transition Register the education are grouped as:

                                                          Group     DISCED main area

Basis school: 1. Basis school 10 10

Youth education: 2. Preparatory education 15 15
3. Secondary schools 21 20, 3510, 3520 4. Vocational education 31 29, 30, 3530

Higher education: 5. Short term higher education 40 40 5. Medium term higher education 50 50 5. Bachelor 60 60 8. Long term higher education 70 70

Sector coverage

Educational institutions providing publicly recognized education or education which give access to public grants.

Statistical concepts and definitions

1-year status:

Statistical unit

The statistical unit is people.

Statistical population

The population consist of people, who have been enrolled on a ordinary education in Denmark, that are public regulated. Since 2007 private education which entitle public grants is also included. The Education Transition Register covers education from preschool till Ph.d. The register is updated annually. The collection of data regarding Ph.d. is one year delayed.

Reference area

Student at Danish education institutions.

Time coverage

The information in The Education Transition Register is based on The Student Register which was establish in the beginning of 1970. The register is updated once a year with new data.

Base period

Not relevant for this register.

Unit of measure

The unit of measurement is number of people

Reference period

  1. September åååå.

Frequency of dissemination

The register is updated once a year

Legal acts and other agreements

Act of Statistics Denmark §6 and §1. There is no EU-regulation.

Cost and burden

There is no respondent burden, since the register is based on existent data source.

Comment

Further information can be found on Statistics Denmark homepage: Educational transition