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Education - Reports on quality

EU Member States provide the Commission (Eurostat) with reports on the quality of data transmitted on the base of Article 12 – Statistical quality of the Regulation (EC) 223/2009 on European statistics (which was amended by Regulation (EU) 2015/759).

Continuing Vocational Training Survey (CVTS)

Specific requirements for continuing Vocational training survey (CVTS, in enterprises) are laid down in sectoral legislation, namely in

Regulation (EC) 1152/2005 on statistics relating to vocational training in enterprises,

Regulation (EC) 198/2006 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1552/2005,

Regulation (EC) 452/2008 concerning the production and development of statistics on education and lifelong learning,

Regulation (EU) 1153/2014 amending Regulation (EC) 198/2006 as regards the data to be collected, and the sampling, precision and quality requirements.

Survey is carried out in 5-year periodicity.

Adult education survey (AES)

Specific requirements for Adult education survey (AES) are laid down in sectoral legislation, namely in

Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 establishing a common framework for European statistics relating to persons and households, based on data at individual level collected from samples, amending Regulation (EC) 452/2008; and in

Regulation (EU) 2021/861 specifying the technical items of the data set and establishing the technical formats for transmission of information on the organisation of a sample survey in the education and training domain pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/1700.

Survey is carried out in 6-year periodicity. 

Education statistics

Specific requirements are laid down in sectoral legislation, namely in

Regulation (EC) 452/2008 concerning the production and development of statistics on education and lifelong learning; and

Regulation (EU) 912/2013, implementing Regulation (EC) No 452/2008 as regards statistics on education and training systems.

Education statistics (data and information, including reports on quality) is produced by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports.