The adult education survey is an extensive survey of post-comprehensive school education and learning among the adult population in Finland. The survey examines participation in education, needs and wishes for education, and opinions in general about education among the adult population. The survey also studies IT and language skills, and participation in diverse free-time activities.
The Adult Education Survey is part of the Adult Education Survey project of Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, and it is conducted in some 30 European countries. In Finland, the survey is implemented as a joint project between Statistics Finland and the Ministry of Education and Culture. Adult Education Surveys have been conducted in Finland since 1980 at intervals of around five years. Statistics Finland collects the data with face-to-face interviews. The next data collection will be made in spring 2016.The interviewees have been drawn from Statistics Finland's population database and include people in different stages of life: young and aged persons, persons with families, persons living alone, unemployed and employed persons, pensioners, students, employees, self-employed persons and farmers. It is also important to obtain data from persons who have not participated in adult education.
Approximately 6,000 Finnish residents between the ages of 18 and 69 are interviewed in the survey. Each person selected to the sample represents around 500 people in Finland and cannot be substituted by another person.The answers of an individual person cannot be identified in the statistics to be published. The Statistics Act (280/2004) obliges Statistics Finland to treat the data as confidential.
Last updated 7.10.2013
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