Statistical processing

Source data

The Education Transition Register is based on the data in The Student Register, which contains information about ordinary education in Denmark.

Frequency of data collection

The Education Transition Register is based on the data in The Student Register which is collected once a year.

Data collection

The Education Transition Register is based on the data in The Student Register. The majority of data in The Student Register is collected by system to-system reporting. However, there are a few educational institutions which report through web questionnaires.

Data validation

See the description of data validation in the documentation of statistics for The Student Register.

Data compilation

The Education Transition Register is a processed version of The Student Register. Educational Transition Register look true each students education career in chronological order and the career is divided in education group. For each education group a Transition Schedule is formed.

The processing is done in steps:

Step 1. The education group is the central unit and the other element relate to that central unit. A group defines as a sequence of education in a persons education career within the same group. The group is limited in time from the first record in the group until:

• the first completion with competence (KOMP = 1, 3)
• last record in the group

Step 2. Transition between the groups

• Previous and following group
• Kind of approach to the group (have the student been in the group before?)

Step 3. Memory Too each group information about previous activity and result is added

• Completion of basis school
• Qualifying education
• Previous completion in the area
• Previous completion in the group

Adjustment

There is no correction of data besides what has already been described under data validation and data processing.