Vocational education
1. Contact
Responsible agency
Unit
Contact person
Position
Email (agency)
Phone
2. Statistical presentation
Data description
Data on students in vocational education (vocational initial education; vocational secondary education) are required by: the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Eurostat, the Ministry of Education and Science, the Ministry of Economics and other data users.
The obtained information provides an opportunity to evaluate the acquisition of vocational education both at the national and international level. Data are collected and published by the country as a whole, by educational programmes, by age and sex, by thematic groups of education.
Statistical concepts and definitions
Statistical unit
Vocational education institutions and higher education institutions that implement vocational secondary education programmes.
Statistical population
All economically active vocational education institutions and higher education institutions established by the state, local governments and legal entities, registered in the State Education Information System of the Ministry of Education and Science, which implement vocational secondary education programmes.
3. Institutional mandate
Legal acts and other agreements
- Commission Regulation (EU) No 912/2013 of 23 September 2013 implementing Regulation (EC) No 452/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the production and development of statistics on education and lifelong learning, as regards statistics on education and training systems;
- Statistics Law;
- The Cabinet Regulation “Official Statistics Programme 20xx-20xx”.
4. Accessibility and clarity
On-line database
5. Comparability
Comparability - geographical
The Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat) publishes information on the EU-27 and on a country-by-country basis on its website, in the section: Education and training.
Length of comparable time series
N/A
6. Coherence
Coherence- cross domain
N/A
7. Statistical processing (data source etc.)
Source data
- CSB report "Vocational education institutions";
- Registry of State Education Information System of the Ministry of Education and Science.
Data collection
From the CSB report "Vocational Education Institution" data are obtained on the activities of a vocational education institution (foreign language acquisition by students, foreign teachers and funding of a vocational education institution).
Data on the operation of a vocational education institution (number of enrollments by educational programmes and school years, distribution of enrolled students by age and sex, number of teachers) are obtained from State Education Information System of the Ministry of Education and Science.
Information on vocational school entrants and graduates is collected on the period from 1 October 199X to 30 September 199Y or from 1 October 20XX to 30 September 20XY, respectively.
Data compilation
Data are acquired with the help of full-scope survey.