1. Volume measures of education in the Norwegian National Accounts

2. Education in Norwegian National Accounts
Four industries in NACE education:
Local government educational services
Central government educational services
Private NPISH
Private educational services, market producers

3. Data sources for education
Primary and lower secondary education
The information system for primary and lower secondary education (GSI – Grunnskolenes informasjonssystem)
KOSTRA "Municipality-State-Reporting ”
Upper secondary education
Tertiary education
The database for statistics on higher education (DBH)
Adult education
The information system for primary and lower secondary education

4. Primary and lower secondary education
Education is given in ordinary and special schools. Costs per pupil are much higher in special schools.
The volume indicator is the number of pupil hours
number of hours spent at being thought
The volume indicator is weighted by the adjusted gross operating expenditure from the previous year

5. Upper secondary education
General theoretical education and vocational training divided into 15 courses
For education provided by the county authorities volume measures are based on full year equivalents for each course
a convertion of the number of pupils in proportion to the share of the course they are attending
weighted by the adjusted gross operating expenditure at course level from the previous year
Volume indices for central government and private NPISH are based on number of pupils

6. Tertiary education
Tertiary education consists of courses at universities and university colleges.
Number of students by institution are used as volume indicator. Each universitity is further stratified by groups of faculties according to unit costs.
For universities and state university colleges cost data on institution and faculty level are available and used to weight the volume indicator.

7. Adult education Volume indicies are based on teacher hours
the total amount of teaching hours offered by the teachers during one school year
We assume the same volume growth for market producers and NPISH due to lack of data
Production in current prices is dominated by the local government and market producers (adult education associations)

8. Aggregated volume indicies by industry
In 2003 output method gives lower volume growth in all industries except for NPISH
In 2004 output method gives higher volume growth in local goverment and for the market producers

9. Concluding remarks
Further evaluation of our calculation methods and data sources
Statistics Norway is developing detailed account statistics for NPISH providing educational services
In the longer term introduce quality adjustment in the calculations of the volume indicators