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EDUC32: Educational attainment, by reporting country, level of education, country background, time, population category, sex, age and unit

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6/28/2024
Percent and Persons
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9/4/2021
National register-based statistics, delivered by the National Statistical Institutes.
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Registred resident population. On Residents: Please note that refugees/asylum seekers are not automatically registered as residents in the Nordic countries, and are therefore not fully included in the statistics of this matrix. This means that for example immigrants from Ukraine are underestimated, since they have not been in a Nordic country long enough or otherwise do not meet the rules for population registration. See the respective country's regulations for further information. The frequency is calculated by dividing the amount in a given group that has attained a specific level of education by the total population in the group. Example: Frequency Tertiary, age 25-64 = (25-64 attained tertiary education) / (Total 25-64 population). Percentages or frequencies are produced with a base of a minimum of 50 individuals per cell. Definition of Population Category:
Foreign-born with two foreign-born parents: Foreign-born with native-born adoptive parents are excluded.
Descendants: Native-born with two foreign-born parents.
Rest of population: Total population excluding descendants and foreign-born with two foreign-born parents. Definition of Country Background:
Foreign-born with two foreign-born parents: their own country of birth.
Descendants: mother's country of birth, or father's country of birth if mother's is unknown.
Rest of the population: Reporting country i.e. one or both parents' country of birth is the reporting country. The list of countries reported under Country Background was expanded in the 2024 update. For the first three years in the matrix, a total of 20 countries were used. They were the largest non-Nordic countries of birth in each Nordic country and at a Nordic level in 2020/2021. For each Nordic country, the countries were ranked from largest to smallest in terms of population size. The countries were then given a sum-rank for the Nordic region, and then ranked again at a Nordic level. In addition, for the purpose of comparison, the chosen countries had to be ranked among the 25 highest in at least 3 of the 5 Nordic countries. The result was 20 countries for foreign-born with two foreign-born parents, and 9 countries for descendants. For the last three years in the matrix, a complete list of countries, following the ISO 3166-2 standard, has been used. A person can have a background in a country that does not exist anymore, for example Former Soviet Union. For Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Sweden they are still registered as having their background in that country, while Norway have registrered these under a today existing country (so that people with a background in Former Soviet Union are registered under Russian Federation etc.). Definition of Level of education: Highest level of education attained by January 1st. Data is compiled according to ISCED 2011 classification (level 1-2, 3-4 and 5-8). ISCED: International Standard Classification of Education i.e. United Nations's systems og classification of education. International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) of 2011. Note on Iceland: Because of ongoing work with the national Icelandic population registers, where changes are beeing made as far back as 2011, deliveries to the integration and migration matrices have been delayed. They will be made as soon as the revised registers are ready, for all six years included in the matrix. In some cases, subsets do not add up to specified totals. This is because summation in these cases took place after small values were suppressed for confidentiality reasons. The differences are, however, small in relation to the values. This matrix is the result of an integration and migration co-operation project involving the Nordic Statistical Institutes. On the 2024 update:
Three new years were added to the Integration and Migration matrices.
In addition to percentages, absolute numbers, i.e. number of people are also reported in some of the matrices this update.
The list of countries reported under Country Background was expanded in the 2024 update, see above.

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Denmark

Reference date: Population 31 December, completed education measured 1 October.
Level of education: Highest level of education attained by the reference date. It is not possible to separate unknown from population without educational qualification.
Residents born in Greenland or the Faroe Islands figure with Denmark as country background.
Residents born in overseas territories figure with the sovereign state as country background (e.g. Gibraltar and Falkland Islands are contained in United Kingdom, French Polynesia and New Caledonia are contained in France, Aruba and Curaçao are contrained in The Netherlands etc.).
Dissolved contries might occur, e.g. Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, since some persons are still registered with these countries as their country of birth, if they immigrated when these countries still existed.
Palestine has only been used as a possible place of birth since 1st January 2022. Only persons who immigrated later than this date, or who have requested a change, are registered with Palestine as their place of birth. Therefore, the number of Palestinians in Denmark is underreported. Other Palestinians will figure as unknown or a neighbouring country.

Finland

Reference date: 31 December.
Level of education: Register of completed education and degrees is missing the majority of degrees taken abroad. Register also covers only population with upper secondary level qualification. Thus population without information about upper secondary level degree are classified to group lower secondary qualification (ISCED 0-2).
Includes Åland.

Norway

Reference date: 1 October.
Highest level of education attained by reference date. From 2014, figures include an estimated level of education for missing values for education completed abroad. International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) of 2011: http://uis.unesco.org/sites/default/files/documents/international-standard-classification-of-education-isced-2011-en.pdf
Foreign-born with two foreign-born parents: Foreign-born with two foreign-born parents and four foreign-born grandparents. Adopted foreign-born are excluded.
Descendants: Native-born with two foreign-born parents and four foreign-born grandparents.

Sweden

Reference date: 31 December.
Level of education: Highest level of education attained by reference date.
Percentages or frequencies are produced with a Nominator of minimum 6 individuals and/or Denominator of a minimum of 50 individuals per cell for years 2019-2021.