The Adult Education Survey Eurociett/UNI Europa Joint Conference 4th December 2008, Bruxelles

1. The Adult Education SurveyEurociett/UNI Europa Joint Conference 4th December 2008, Bruxelles Sadiq Kwesi Boateng European Commission Eurostat, Unit F4 Education Contact persons at Eurostat: Sadiq-Kwesi.Boateng@ec.europa.eu, Lene.Mejer@ec.europa.eu

2. Methodology • Proposed EU standard questionnaire and classification of activities. Also standardised tools for validating data and a standard quality reporting format. • Different schema for sampling: Simple random, stratified simple random, multi-stage stratified, multi-stage, multi-stratified sampling. • Interview: CATI (by telephone), CAPI/PAPI or a combination of the two (computer or paper assisted face to face interview) • Proxy interviews allowed in only a few countries • Weighting methods by mainly gender and age • AES as stand-alone survey in most countries, few included in other surveys (mainly labour force surveys) • Reference period for education and training activities - 12 months

3. Formal, non formal education and informal learning • Formal education is education provided in a system of schools, colleges, universities and other formal educational institutions and normally intended to lead to a certification. Examples are secondary and vocational courses, degree and postgraduate courses. • Non Formal Education is organised and sustained educational activity that takes place both within and outside educational institutions. Depending on country contexts, it may cover educational programmes to impart adult literacy, basic education for out of school children, life-skills, work-skills, and general culture. • Informal learning is intentional, but less organised and less structured and may include for example learning events (activities) that occur in the family, in the work place, and in the daily life of every person, on a self-directed, family-directed or socially directed basis. Examples are the use of computers, printed materials, television programmes to acquire knowlwdge

4. Learning activities Informal learning Formal education Non formal education Random learning

5. Adult Education Survey - results- • Data can be found on Eurostat’s website: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat -> switch to ‘data’ mode and click on the following headings: -> Education and Training -> Training -> Adult education survey • Data are provisional for France and Slovakia • The slides on Language skills and ICT skills are not published yet (forthcoming) and should therefore not be used for further quotation.

6. >50 40-50 30-40 < 30

8. More females More males In relative terms

9. PL GR HU LT IT LV SK CY AT BG DE EE ES FR FI NO UK SE Participation in Formal & Non-Formal by educational attainment (%), AES 100 90 Max. Lower Secondary Larger relative difference Upper Secondary 80 Tertiary 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

10. SE UK FI FR GR PL HU

11. Employed Unemployed Inactive Participation (Formal & Non-Formal) by employment status (%) 90 Larger differences 80 70 Relative difference between the employed and the others 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 SE AT NO ES FI UK DE GR IT CY FR HU LV EE PL LT SK BG

12. Participation in FED or NFE by occupation

24. Further work • Publication of remaining results of pilot AES including • More countries • More indicators • Micro-data for research purposes, first countries beginnijng of 2009, - all by the end of 2009. • Preparation of the next AES surveys to take place in 2011 or 2012. • Preparation of a Commission Regulation. Funding secured. • Methodological improvements, - further harmonisation. - Thank you very much for your attention -