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Education statistics in Sweden

Education statistics in Sweden. Josefine Lundström Population and Welfare Department: Education and jobs. Overview. The production of education statistics regarding pre-school , pre-scool class , school- age childcare and adult education Data collection process

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Education statistics in Sweden

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  1. Educationstatistics in Sweden Josefine Lundström Population and Welfare Department: Education and jobs

  2. Overview • The production of educationstatisticsregardingpre-school, pre-scoolclass, school- age childcare and adulteducation • Data collection process • Officialstatistics – Swedish National Agency for Education • The use of Educationstatistics in Sweden • Users • MONA – MicrodataONline Access

  3. EducationStatistics • The Swedish National Agency for Education(Skolverket) is responsible for the officialstatisticsconcerningpre-schooling, school-agechildcare and parts of the adulteducation • The Swedish SchoolsInspectorate has supervisoryresponsibility for preschooling, school-agechildcare, schooling and adulteducation. • Statistics Sweden collects the data uponrequest from The Swedish National Agency for Education. • The production of the officialstatistics is process oriented. Because of the secrecyactbothindividual and group data is collected

  4. The School register • Owned by the National agency for education (Skolverket) and used both for their administrative needs and our statistical needs. • The basis for all statistical collections in ISCED 0-3 • The register is administered and collected by SCB. • Contains all active Schools, divided by school form with unique codes. • Administrative classification; one “School” (building) can have multiple entries in the register (School codes) • One large collection and update per year, sent to all active Organizers (huvudmän), municipal and private. • Running updates round the year. • Modernisation in process to adapt to the new Education Act and the Curricula of 2011 • With the school register as a baseStatistics Sweden collects data concerning students, grades, costs and the teachingstaff

  5. Data collection • It takesabout 5 month from the beginning of the survey to the publication of Officialstatistics. • The process that takes the most time is the data collection • Improvement in the service towards the respondent • Tests in the information towards the respondents • Meetings with companies that provides school systems • Participitation in schoolconventions • Uppersecondaryeducation: • Students: The Swedish National Board of Student Aid (CSN) • Graduates: Partly from National Agency for Services to Universitets and University Colleges (VHS) • Systems for data collection: • SIV • Triton • Examples: • National tests in year 9 www.scb.se/ap9 • Final grades in compulsoryschoolwww.scb.se/ak9

  6. Registers on individuals • Compulsoryschool, leavingcertificate, , 1988- • National test, year 3 (2010-), 6 (2012-) and 9 (2003-) • Uppersecondaryschool, leavingcertificate, 1973- • Uppersecondaryschool, National test, 2003- (sample) • Uppersecondaryschool, applicants and admissions, 1985- • Swedish for immigrants, 1992- • Register on teachingpersonnel, 1978- • Students in pre-schoolclass, compulsoryschool and leisuretime-centers • Students in uppersecondaryschool

  7. Registers on a group level • Preschool and other pedagogical activities • Compulsoryschool: • Special schools • Schools for children with learningdisabilities • The Sami school (year 1-6) • Schools with denominationaleducation • Municipal adult education • Basic adult education • Upper secondary adult education • Post-secondary training courses. • Adult education for individuals with learning disabilities.

  8. Data processing • Socio-demographicbackground variables get linked to the students and the schools, such as: • Country and city (if in Sweden) of birth • The biologicalparentseducationallevel • Date of immigration • Principal organiser of the school(municipal, state, county or independent) • Statisticaltablesincluded in the Officialstatistics of Sweden • Micro-data registers • Individual (de-identified, serialnumberused in all student registers) • Group • Derived variables concerning for example: • If and how students commute • The student’s final grade in compulsoryschool in the student register for uppersecondaryschool

  9. Antal

  10. Antal + 181 000 + 21 % + 95 000 + 11 %

  11. + 91 000 + 29,8 %

  12. Surveys • Ministry of Education and Research orders every year 2-4 surveys each year from the Population and Welfare Department: Education and jobs at Statistics Sweden • Adult Education Survey is an on-going international study • Follow up on students 4 year after they’re graduation from higher education • Study interest of students in upper secondary school • PIAAC - Programme for the International Assessment of AdultCompetencies.

  13. The use of Educationstatistics • Follow up and analysis • Researchers • Planning of economicalresources • Municipalities and counties • School organizers • AuthoritiesMinistryResearchersPublic

  14. MONA - MicrodataONline Access • The MONA system provides secure access to micro data at Statistics Sweden from an Internet connection. Here data are processed and analyzed through a rich set of applications. • Aggregated results are automatically sent to a user’s designated mail account. Users can also store intermediate results on Statistics Sweden servers for future use. The main goals for the MONA-system are: • to provide a secure system for Statistics Sweden and the researcher, in which no micro data can leave the system and with a high availability. • to present an easy to use front end for end users built on well known standardized techniques and software components. • to have instantly upgraded data when needed without any requirements to produce new sets of disks or tapes for redistribution to external users. • to present a complete system with powerful servers and a rich set of applications with no requirements on expensive equipment and softwarecosts for endusers.

  15. MONA • Microdata On-line Access (MONA) • Statistics Sweden's standard tool for making micro data accessible • For research and statistical purposes after a harm test according to The SecrecyAct

  16. Goals for access to microdata • No data leaves Statistics Sweden • Easy for the user • Secure system for Statistics Sweden and the user • Timeliness when changes occur • Statistics Sweden handles all maintenance (i.e. servers, software, storage etc.) • Combine your data with data from Statistics Sweden

  17. MONA system Users https://mikrodata.scb.se Log on with app or security card • Data • SQL databases • Files from statistical software • Other formats • Software • SAS • STATA • SPSS • Other statistical software Individual Windows remote desktop Results E-mail

  18. Publications from Statistics Sweden • Statisticalyearbook of Sweden • Statisticalyearbook on Educationin Sweden • Genderstatistics • Trends and forecasts • Etc.

  19. Nationella progress reports • The progress report by the Swedish National Agency for Education • Part 1 - Descriptive data Part 2 - Assessment and Conclusions

  20. International comparisons • OECD: Education at a Glance Sverige?

  21. Documentation for in-depth studies

  22. Basis for the government assignments Andel kursdeltagare med betyget icke-godkänt (IG), % ”Skolverket ska genom en urvalsundersökning kartlägga och analysera orsakerna till den låga måluppfyllelsen i kurserna Matematik A och B i den kommunala vuxenutbildningen, samt föreslå åtgärder för att förbättra resultaten. ”

  23. Analysis by Swedish National Agency for Education Statisticsconcerninghow students in secondaryschoolcommute

  24. Differencebetween the grade in the national test and final grade of year 9 in compulsoryschool Andel elever med lägre, lika eller högre slutbetyg jämfört med provbetyg, %

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