Education and Skills

Publications & Documents

OECD Handbook for Internationally Comparative Education Statistics: Concepts, Standards, Definitions and Classifications

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28-Apr-2004

For well over a decade, the OECD has developed and published a broad range of comparative indicators that provide insights into the functioning of education systems. These provide crucial information on ...

Education at a Glance: OECD Indictators - 2003: Coding of Missing Data (UOE source)

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26-Mar-2004

The correct use of the missing codes is an essential condition to ensure the integrity of the data. Different reasons why there are no data in a particular instance need to be distinguished in the statistical ...

Completing the Foundation for Lifelong Learning - An OECD Survey of Upper Secondary Schools: Survey Operations Manual

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13-Feb-2004

Manual for the PISA 2000 Database

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15-Nov-2002

This manual describes the international database of the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2000. The database comprises data collected in 2000 in 32 countries and processed in the ...

Teachers and the Curriculum

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15-Nov-2002

This manual provides data collection instructions on annual instruction time, teachers' statutory salary and incentive system, teachers' working conditions and pre-service training requirements.

PISA 2000 Technical Report

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15-Nov-2002

The PISA Technical Report describes methodologies, along with other features that have enabled the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) to provide high quality data to support policy formation and review.

UOE Data Collection - 2002 Data Collection on Education Systems: Definitions, Explanations and Instructions

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15-Nov-2002

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 ...

CLassifying Educational Programmes

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15-Nov-2002

Education systems vary widely between countries, so how can we compare them? The International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) is an instrument designed to transform data collected under different ...