Education Education An approach to some basic Indicators for ...

66 Catalog of Indicators Education Data source/s: National population census Household and/or labour force surveys Challenges: Certain educational programmes and study courses cannot be easily classified according to ISCED. This indicator only measures educational attainment in terms of level of education attained, i.e. years of schooling, and do not necessarily reveal the quality of the education (learning achievement and other impacts). Linked to policy: National Educational plan (ESP, Non-­‐Formal Education, Gender strategy) Other comments: A relative high concentration of the adult population in a given level of education reflects the capacity of the educational system in the corresponding level of education. Educational attainment is closely related to the skills and competencies of a country's population, and could be seen as a proxy of both the quantitative and qualitative aspects of the stock of human capital. Life-­‐long learning is essential to sustainable development. As society shifts towards sustainable production and consumption patterns, workers and citizens who are willing to develop and adopt new technologies and organisation techniques as workers, as well as new attitudes and behaviour as citizens and consumers will be needed. Data can be disaggregated by Sex, Age, Location, Level of education.