Cooperation with the
ministries of education
Users and providers
Formal and non formal cooperation
Mutual and opposing interests
Different aspects of our cooperation
with the ministries
Potentially conflicting interests
Formal
cooperation
Non-formal
cooperation
Data exchange and data collection
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Formal cooperation –
contractual obligations
1.
Co-financing of the statistical
production of educational data
1. For us to be able to produce our
2.
sequential register
For them to be able to access these
data
2. Specific contracts for certain new data
collections
1. Expanded collection of data from the
universities
2. Expanded data collection concerning
children with special needs
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Interchanging data with the ministries
The warehouse
Systemsuppliers from the
ministries and private:
STADS, SIS, EASY,
LECTIO, KMD, TABULEX
Other DSt data: health, labour,
salary, family, nationality, etc.
Keys CVR
CPRNR
Co-financed
Data for the
Elevregister are
delivered in basically
the same format
Statistic Denmark integrated
Register of students
Online access to the
warehouse from
workstations at the
ministries
ECTS from
universities
Key Elevident
Institutionsnummer
Grades from
universities
Specific datacollection
Supplementary data
from ministries or other
institutions
Merit from universities
Education for children
with special needs
Other types of
supplementary
information
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The Education Register: education from cradle to the grave
Established in the
early 1970's as a
longitudinal register
Contents:
• Education code
• Start date
• End date
• Institution
Non formal
cooperation
Visits to all
relevant offices in
the ministries
Seminars
regarding
quality
Regular meeting
activities –
presenting new
initiatives for all
interested in
educational
statistics
Visits to
educational
institutions like
universities and
basic schools
1) Faster data production
2) New publications
3) A new common educational
classification based on
ISCED
4) More insight and
information about the
production process
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Educational Institutions
System suppliers
It system
support for
Delivery of data
Search for
errors,
corrections and
recoding
 Validation
 Recoding to
Delivery of data
format used by
DST
 Control of mayor
fluctuations etc.
Other achievements ‘based on’ nonformal cooperation:
More insight in
the all
production
process
Cooperation
with
relevant
New publications:
 Detailed to
information onathe
production process is available on
ministries
 Moving fromdevelop
an educationnew
to
our homepage
educational
classification:
the labour market
 Formalized information level upon data delivery
Background
information
 One
commonly
used related to
 classification
Seminars
andeducation
meetings to clarify any major uncertainties
obtaining an
The
contracts
are
being
revised
to comply
Number
of students
in on
a basic
school
 A
classification
based
ISCED

with these concerns
class
A classification accepted by all
 Movements between bachelor and
ministries
candidate levels at the universities
 A more correct classification
 Publications on children with special
needs
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Potentially conflicting interest
Who is the main source of
educational statistics?
On which terms can the
ministries use our data?
Who will gather and control
the data?
Is the relation between the ministries and
Statistics Denmark equal in terms of
obligations and rights - or does ‘money talk’?
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Thank you very
much for your
attention
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