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The objective of the UIS/OECD/EUROSTAT data collection on education statistics is to provide internationally comparable data on key aspects of education systems, specifically on the articipation and completion of education programmes, as well as the cost and type of resources dedicated to education.

The Member countries co-operate to gather the information, to develop and apply common definitions and criteria for the quality control of the data, and to verify the data and to provide the information necessary to interpret and report the submitted data.

Member countries are committed to making all reasonable efforts to report according to the definitions, classifications, and coverage specified in the current document. Where deviations from international standards, estimations, or data aggregations are necessary, it is essential that these be documented correspondingly. The documentation of data is an integral part of the data collection and is of crucial importance for the future credibility of international education statistics.

The data collection is administered jointly by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation Institute for Statistics (UNESCO / UIS), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and the Statistical Office of the European Union (EUROSTAT). These are referred to as the data requesters.

The UIS/OECD/EUROSTAT data collection has been extended over the last few years to several countries that are not Member of the OECD. This applies to EU Candidate countries, EEA countries and PHARE countries co-operating with EUROSTAT and to participants of the OECD / UIS World Education Indicators pilot project. For simplicity, we will henceforth refer to the latter as WEI participants.