1. Item 4.1 – Overview of 2014 UOE data collection
Jacques Lanneluc Malgorzata Stadnik
Eurostat Education and Training Statistics Working Group - Luxembourg, June 2015

2. Commission Regulation No 912/2013
Challenges of the first year of ISCED2011 implementation in UOE:
New data collected: ISCED 0; tertiary education with ISCED levels 5, 6, 7, and 8; breakdowns by orientation academic and professional ISCED 6 and 7; data on completion at 3-digit ISCED level
New questionnaires:
7 improved and SDMX-compliant questionnaires with new format, separation of value, flags and comments, fill-in area and automatic data checks
Positive excercise with globally good results in data quality, but negative impact on timeliness
Eurostat Education and Training Statistics Working Group - Luxembourg, June 2015

3. Compliance monitoring
By 30 September 2014
Enrolments, entrants, personnel, foreign languages, enrolments at regional level
By 30 November 2014
Graduates
Education expenditure
Quality reports to be sent by 31 January 2015
A report on the application of the Regulation should be presented by Eurostat to the European Directors of Social Statistics in September 2015
Eurostat Education and Training Statistics Working Group - Luxembourg, June 2015

4. Timeliness
13 countries (out of 35) sent the questionnaires according to the legal deadlines
9 countries sent the questionnaires within the month following the legal deadline
13 countries sent from 1 to 7 questionnaires more than one month after the legal deadline
Questionnaire on FINANCE seems to be the most problematic
Countries are recommended:
To improve the timeliness in UOE2015 this year
To respect the deadlines without jeopardising data quality
To inform Eurostat in case of structural problem
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5. Data quality (excluding timeliness)
Globally the quality of the information has been assessed as good or acceptable (according to our data checks)
Problems linked to new data and questionnaires as well as recurrent problems in few countries (dealt with bilaterally by Eurostat)
Countries are recommended:
To estimate missing information (and to improve their estimates if necessary)
To provide appropriate metadata so that end users are properly informed
To anticipate the end of existing derogations
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6. UOE 2014 data quality – coverage examples
No. of countries (EU, EEA, CC) providing the data
Status in Regulation 912/2013
Pupils in Early childhood educational development (ISCED01) NEW
11 EU countries + 2 non-EU
optional
Pupils in combined school and work-based programmes in ISCED 3 vocational
18 EU + 3 non-EU
Non applicable: 5 EU
Missing: 5 EU
obligatory
Degree Mobile graduates in tertiary education by country of origin NEW
24 EU + 3 non-EU Missing: 1 EU
Derogations: 3 EU
Students in ISCED 6 and 7 with breakdown by orientation academic/professional NEW
9 EU + 3 non-EU
Personnel in school management positions in ISCED 1, 2 and 3
13 EU + 4 non-EU
ISCED 01:
Data: DK, DE, ES, HR, LT, AT, SI, SK, FI, SE, GB, IS, NO
Non applicable: BG, CZ, FR, CY, LV, LU, MT, NL, PL
Missing: BE, GR, IE, IT, HU, PT, RO, EE
Combined school and work based programmes:
Data: BE, CZ, DK, DE, EE, FR, IT, LU, LV, HU, MT, NL, AT, PL, SK, FI, SE, GB, LI, NO, CH
Non applicable: BG, CY, LT, PT, SI
Missing: ES, RO, GR, IE, HR
Degree mobile:
Missing: HR (problems with ISCED2011) and IS, LI, TR
Derogations: GR, FR, PL
Academic/professional breakdown:
Data provided by: BE, CZ, DK, DE, FR, LV, LT LU, SI
Personnel:
Data provided by: BE, IE, GR, FR, IT, Hu, MT, NL, AT SK, FI, SE, GB + IS, LI, CH, FYROM
Eurostat Education and Training Statistics Working Group - Luxembourg, June 2015

7. Early childhood education ISCED 0
Data from UOE 2014 onwards
ISCED 2011
Data up to UOE 2013
ISCED 1997
ISCED 01 Early childhood educational development -
ISCED 02 Pre-primary education
ISCED 0 Pre-primary education
ISCED 01 programmes less complex and generally for children less than 3 years old; UOE Manual and special Appendix on ISCED 0
Data on pupils enrolled in ISCED 01 provided only by 11/34 countries; non applicable (9/34) or missing (13/34)
Countries with pupils in ISCED 01: DK, ES, HR, AT
Eurostat Education and Training Statistics Working Group - Luxembourg, June 2015

8. Learning Mobility in tertiary education:
Good data provision by 27/34 countries
Need for improvement as regards the Origin criterion: Country where upper secondary diploma was awarded or the best national estimate obligatory from UOE 2016,
in UOE 2014 used only by 4 countries
Origin criterion (in order of preference)
No. of countries providing GRAD questionnaire (UOE 2014)
Secondary education 4
Prior education 5
Residence 9
Citizenship 7
Other 1
Not provided
Origin criterion (in order of preference)
No. of countries (UOE 2014)
Secondary education 4 (AT, PT, NL, NO)
Prior education 5 (DE, DK, CH, FI, LV)
Residence 9 (EE, SI, ES, IE, CY, LT, RO, MK, GB)
Citizenship 7 (LU, HU, SK, CZ, IT, BG, MT)
Other 1 (SE)
Not provided 2 (BE)
Eurostat Education and Training Statistics Working Group - Luxembourg, June 2015

9. Learning Mobility in tertiary education
Timeline on degree and credit mobile graduates data needed for LMHE2020 benchmark
UOE 2014: Incoming mobile students and degree graduates
Derogations until 31 December 2016: GR, ES, FR, PL
UOE 2016: Country of origin where upper secondary diploma was awarded or the best national estimate
UOE 2017: First submission of data on credit mobility (academic year 2015/2016)
Derogations: IT (until 2019) and PL (until 2018)
Updated manual to be sent before end of July
Eurostat Educat(ion and Training Statistics Working Group - Luxembourg, June 2015

10. Tertiary education and breakdown by academic/professional
Good provision of data on tertiary education with new ISCED 2011 levels 5, 6, 7 and 8
Optional provision of ISCED 6 and 7 breakdown by programme orientation: academic and professional
Data on academic/professional breakdown submitted only by 9 EU MS and 12/34 countries in total
Main reason: lack of clear, internationally agreed definition
OECD proposed to create an informal working group working on a comparable definitions of academic and professional programmes
Eurostat Education and Training Statistics Working Group - Luxembourg, June 2015

11. Information on the data processing
Use of eDAMIS (transmission tool):
still 7 countries did not use eDAMIS in 2014
Countries are recommended:
To require eDAMIS sending rights
To inform the UOE team of any change in your organisation having an impact on the data transmission
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12. Quality reports 2014
Legal obligation in Regulation 912/2013 to provide quality reports by 31 January every year
24/35 countries provided 2014 quality reports in ESS MH. None published yet. Eurostat will assess the content.
QR should give data users the information on coverage, breaks in the series and any deviations from definitions.
Eurostat Education and Training Statistics Working Group - Luxembourg, June 2015

13. ISCED mappings 2014 Legal obligation in Regulation 912/2013:
ISCED mappings of national programmes and qualifications should be transmitted together with Quality reports by 31 January every year.
Template supplied by Eurostat: update of the prefilled 2013 ISCED mappings
24 EU MS provided 2014 ISCED mappings
Eurostat Education and Training Statistics Working Group - Luxembourg, June 2015

14. UOE back series on ISCED 2011
Request for trend data mapped from ISCED97 to ISCED2011 presented in ETS WG in 2013
Trend data questionnaires sent individually to countries by OECD at the end of March 2015
Data was received from 15 EU countries by the end of May 2015
OECD is currently assessing the situation. On the basis of the results, Eurostat will decide if trend data can be made available to our users and on the opportunity for additional data collection
Eurostat Education and Training Statistics Working Group - Luxembourg, June 2015

15. Summary
The ETS WG has been informed on the state of play of the UOE 2014 data collection and that the compliance with the Regulation should be reported the directors of social statistics in September
Countries are invited to provide as soon as possible missing information (individual reminders have already been sent)
Countries are invited to improve as far as possible their data on learning mobility and to anticipate the expected changes in this domain (definition of mobile students; credit mobility)
The ETS WG has been informed that Eurostat might come back to the countries on trend data after consultation with Oecd on the recent data collection
Eurostat Education and Training Statistics Working Group - Luxembourg, June 2015