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Adult education
The Adult Education Survey is carried out every six years (previously every fifth). The purpose of the survey is to collect information on the scope and content of various forms of adult learning and patterns of adults’ participation in learning activities.
Selected figures from this statistics
- Participation in formal or non-formal education and training in the last 12 months in the population 25-64 years by sex, age and educational attainment level. Per centDownload table as ...Participation in formal or non-formal education and training in the last 12 months in the population 25-64 years by sex, age and educational attainment level. Per cent
2017 2022 All 25-64 years 60 60 Sex Males 60 58 Females 60 62 Age group 25-34 years 69 74 39-49 years 64 63 50-64 years 50 46 Educational attainment level Basic school level or no education completed 40 42 Upper secondary education 60 51 College and university level 76 74 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Participation in formal education and training in the last 12 months in the population 25-64 years by sex, age and educational attainment level. Per centDownload table as ...Participation in formal education and training in the last 12 months in the population 25-64 years by sex, age and educational attainment level. Per cent
2017 2022 All 25-64 years 12 13 Sex Males 10 10 Females 14 15 Age group 25-34 years 27 27 39-49 years 9 11 50-64 years 5 3 Educational attainment level Basic school level or no education completed 10 11 Upper secondary education 11 9 College and university level 16 16 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Participation in non-formal education and training in the last 12 months in the population 25-64 years by sex, age and educational attainment level. Per centDownload table as ...Participation in non-formal education and training in the last 12 months in the population 25-64 years by sex, age and educational attainment level. Per cent
2017 2022 All 25-64 years 55 56 Sex Males 55 54 Females 55 57 Age group 25-34 years 55 65 39-49 years 61 59 50-64 years 48 45 Educational attainment level Basic school level or no education completed 33 35 Upper secondary education 55 48 College and university level 71 70 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Participation in non-formal training during paid working hours in the population 25-64 years by sex, age and educational attainment level. Per centDownload table as ...Participation in non-formal training during paid working hours in the population 25-64 years by sex, age and educational attainment level. Per cent
2017 2022 All 25-64 year 45 37 Sex Males 46 35 Females 44 38 Age group 25-34 years 45 41 39-49 years 49 40 50-64 years 40 30 Educational attainment level Basic school level or no education completed 24 17 Upper secondary education 45 31 College and university level 60 51 Corrected 26 October 2017. Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ...
About the statistics
The information under «About the statistics» was last updated 28 November 2023.
Concepts and definitions in the AES are in accordance with the demands set by Eurostat.
Education refers to formal education as defined below.
Formal education includes all education leading to a qualification which is recognised in the equivalent of a national framework of qualification, e.g. elementary school, lower secondary school, modules or courses in upper secondary school, apprentices and practice candidates in upper secondary education, technical vocational schools, tertiary education giving official credit points and further education leading to a professional specialisation.
Training refers to non-formal education/training as defined below.
Non-formal education/ training refers to organised learning activity that is not formal education. It includes courses, seminars and conferences (where learning is the main purpose), public lectures and private lessons not part of formal education and guided on-the-job training.
Both formal education and non-formal education/training are institutionalised forms of learning. This entails that there is an organisation providing structured arrangements (which must include something similar to a student-teacher-relationship) especially designed for education and learning.
Informal learning is not institutionalised learning. It is thus less organised and less structured than formal education and non-formal education/training, often undertaken by the individual on his/her own. It may include watching TV or reading a book with the intention to learn, intentional learning from colleagues or family members, guided tours in a museum etc. The importance of the intention to learn when undertaking an activity separates informal learning from random learning.
Examples of formal eduation, non-formal education and training as well as informal learning can be found in Eurostat's Classification of learning activities-manual.
The industrial classification of economic activities is in accordance with the Standard industrial Classification (SN2002) until 2007, and SN2007 from 2008 onwards. The standard is based on the EU standard if NACE rev. 1.1.
Educational attainment level is primarily based on information from register information in the National Education Database. Read more about how educational attainment is classified here.
Degree of urbanisation follows the codelist for degree of urbanisation
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Analyses, articles and publications
Reports 2017/23 / 10 August 2017Lifelong learning 2008-2017Lifelong learning, defined in this report as organized learning throughout life, is an area of priority both in Norway and internationally. The purpose of the report Livslang læring 2008-2017 (Lifelong learning 2008-2017) is to present descriptive statistics on the participation in formal further education and job-related nonformal education in the period from 2008 to 2017.