Educational attainment, early leaving from education and training, transition from school to work

version 17/01/2019

Complementary methodological information

This webpage provides complementary information on statistical indicators based on the EU Labour Force Survey (LFS) namely:

- Educational attainment (incl. the Europe 2020 headline indicator on tertiary educational attainment)

- Early leavers from education and training and NEET (young people neither in employment nor in education and training)

- Employment rates few years after graduation and skills mismatch

Section 4 gives useful links to learn about the evaluation and dissemination of the 2000 and 2009 LFS ad-hoc modules on the entry of young people into the labour market.

Section 1 – Educational attainment

1.1 Calculation of the LFS indicators

1.2 Comparability across countries and time series

1.3 Implementation of ISCED 2011 from 2014 onwards

Section 2 – Early leavers from education and training and NEET – young people neither in employment nor in education and training

2.1 Calculation of the LFS indicators

2.2 Comparability across countries and time series

2.3 Analysis of the NEET results

2.4 Coherence between results on early leavers from education and training
and results on NEET

Section 3 – Employment rates few years after graduation

3.1 Calculation of the indicator

3.2 EU benchmark on the employment rates of recent graduates

3.3 Coherence between annual LFS data and LFS ad-hoc module data

3.4 Related publications, skills mismatch

Section 4 – 2000 and 2009 LFS ad-hoc modules on the transition from school to work

Commission Regulations No 1925/1999 and No 207/2008 specify the list of variables to be collected in these two modules (see the statistics explained article on the EU labour force survey – main features and legal basis).

More information on the implementation of these Regulations and evaluation of results is available

- for the 2000 module from the statistics explained article on LFS ad-hoc modules

- for the 2009 module from a dedicated webpage

Three main publications present the results from the 2000 module on "youth transitions from education to working life in Europe":

Part 1 – General indicators on transition from school to work

Part 2 – School leavers in Europe and the labour market effects of job mismatches

Part 3 – Young people’s social origin, educational attainment and labour market outcomes in Europe

The 2009 module data are published on Eurostat's online database (tables edat_lfso_09t1 to edat_lfso_09t3) and in the form of a statistics explained article.