System of Social Indicators for the Federal Republic of Germany: Education

The system of social indicators for the Federal Republic of Germany - developed in its original version as part of the SPES project under the direction of Wolfgang Zapf - provides quantitative information on levels, distributions and changes in quality of life, social progress and social change in Germany from 1950 to 2013, i.e. over a period of more than sixty years. With the approximately 400 objective and subjective indicators that the indicator system comprises in total, it claims to measure welfare and quality of life in Germany in a differentiated way across various areas of life and to monitor them over time. In addition to the indicators for 13 areas of life, including income, education and health, a selection of cross-cutting global welfare measures were also included in the indicator system, i.e. general welfare indicators such as life satisfaction, social isolation or the Human Development Index. Based on available data from official statistics and survey data, time series were compiled for all indicators, ideally with annual values from 1950 to 2013. Around 90 of the indicators were marked as "key indicators" in order to highlight central dimensions of welfare and quality of life across the various areas of life. The further development and expansion, regular maintenance and updating as well as the provision of the data of the system of social indicators for the Federal Republic of Germany have been among the tasks of the Center for Social Indicator Research, which is based at GESIS, since 1987. For a detailed description of the system of social indicators for the Federal Republic of Germany, see the study description under "Other documents".<br>Indicators for the area of life “education”

The data on the area of life “education” is made up as follows:

Participation in education and educational opportunities: Access to the elementary area [second level]; Children in kindergartens; Provision rate in child day care for children under three years old; Participation in education in lower secondary education [second level]; School attendance of 13-year-olds by school type; School success in lower secondary education [second level]; School leavers without a secondary school diploma; School success in upper secondary education [second level]: High school graduate rate; Participation in tertiary education [second level]: Student quota of 20 to 30 year olds; Equal opportunities in tertiary education [second level]: Student entry rate for university studies; Entry rate for university/technical college studies; Further training [second level]: VHS course occupancy per 100 inhabitants; Participation rate for the entire further training; Participation rate in general and political further training; Participation rate in continuing professional education; Participation rate of continuing vocational training among employed people; Qualification [first level]: Language competence [second level]: Proportion of population with foreign language skills; IT competence [second level]: Proportion of population with computer skills; Quality of school education [second level]: Proportion of students with a lack of mathematical competence; Proportion of students with poor reading skills; Proportion of students with a lack of scientific competence; Vocational training [second level]: Share of population with apprenticeship/skilled training; Proportion of the population with vocational training; Proportion of the population with a technical college education; Proportion of the population with a university degree; Effectiveness [first level]: Unemployment rate: people without training; Unemployment rate: university graduates; Organization and costs of the education system [first level]: Public/private sector ratio [second level]: Proportion of high school students in public schools to all high school students; Costs of the education system [second level]: Share of public budget expenditure on education; public/private financing of studies; Financing the studies; Subjective preservation and evaluation of education [first level]: Satisfaction with training.