1. Adult Education Survey
ETS WG, 30 January-1 February 2006
Agenda Item 22
document 2005-ETS-22-EN
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2. Adult Education Survey
Progress since the last meeting
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3. 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
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4. AES Progress since the last meeting
AES manual (questionnaire, code book, checking rules)
Grants procedure complete
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5. 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
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AES - countries plans
Sweden, UK
France, Lithuania, Italy, Finland, Slovakia
Hungary, Greece, Cyprus, Poland
Belgium, Spain, Latvia, Portugal, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Austria
Estonia, Slovenia, Bulgaria
2007 Germany, Croatia
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7. Education and Training Statistics Working Group
AES – variables
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9. 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).
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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?
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11. 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)
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12. 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
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13. 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
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14. 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)
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15. 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
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16. Education and Training Statistics Working Group
AES -Further steps
“Task Force for the AES Implementation”
first meeting:
Deadline for confirmation of participation:
20 February 2006
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