Adult Education Survey ETS WG, 30 January-1 February 2006 Agenda Item 22 document 2005-ETS-22-EN Education and Training Statistics Working Group

Adult Education Survey Progress since the last meeting Education and Training Statistics Working Group

AES Progress since the last meeting Two meetings of the TF AES Pilots Hierarchy of the variables Cognitive tests in Sweden and the UK and preparation for tests in Finland Finalisation of the AES questionnaire Education and Training Statistics Working Group

AES Progress since the last meeting AES manual (questionnaire, code book, checking rules) Grants procedure complete Education and Training Statistics Working Group

Education and Training Statistics Working Group AES - countries plans New AES Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Spain, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Sweden Adaptation of an existing AES Finland, UK Use of existing survey with a different subject France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Ireland Education and Training Statistics Working Group

Education and Training Statistics Working Group AES - countries plans 10.2005 Sweden, UK 01-06.2006 France, Lithuania, Italy, Finland, Slovakia 07-12.2006 Hungary, Greece, Cyprus, Poland 01-06.2007 Belgium, Spain, Latvia, Portugal, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Austria 07-12.2007 Estonia, Slovenia, Bulgaria 2007 Germany, Croatia Education and Training Statistics Working Group

Education and Training Statistics Working Group AES – variables Education and Training Statistics Working Group

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Education and Training Statistics Working Group AES -Further steps Strengths of the survey: Active participation of countries Implementation in most of the EU Members and associate countries. AES - a separate survey Additional information on the participants (e.g. his/her participation in cultural activities, attitude towards learning). Education and Training Statistics Working Group

Education and Training Statistics Working Group AES -Further steps A complex information source on participants and participation in education and training Answers to questions: why people do not participate in education and training? what are the reasons of participation? Education and Training Statistics Working Group

Education and Training Statistics Working Group AES -Further steps However: Different reference years Long reference period New variables not tested before Different methods of interviewing (face to face, telephone interviews, self filled paper questionnaire) Education and Training Statistics Working Group

Education and Training Statistics Working Group AES -Further steps Long questionnaire and high burden on respondent Flexibility in the way variables are included Different ways of constructing of the national questionnaires Education and Training Statistics Working Group

Education and Training Statistics Working Group AES -Further steps What is still missing: Treatment of non-response Editing and imputation (guidelines, common rules (?)) Dissemination rules Education and Training Statistics Working Group

Education and Training Statistics Working Group AES -Further steps And what still we can do: Work on harmonisation of the national questionnaires (especially referring to the “non factual” questions) Improve the organisation of the survey, interview techniques Deal with some particular problems (e.g. a memory effect) Education and Training Statistics Working Group

Learning from each other AES -Further steps Deal with some particular problems (e.g. a memory effect) and all that by… Learning from each other Education and Training Statistics Working Group

Education and Training Statistics Working Group AES -Further steps “Task Force for the AES Implementation” first meeting: 16-17.03.2006 Deadline for confirmation of participation: 20 February 2006 Education and Training Statistics Working Group