Measuring and Harmonising Education with Education Coding Tools

With this presentation, we would like to showcase tools for measuring education in computer-assisted surveys that were developed in the CAMCES and SERISS projects. First, the CAMCES tool, which measures respondents’ highest educational qualification, and second, a tool, which measures the field of education and training. Both tools are based on international multilingual databases, including international coding schemes for educational attainment and fields of education and training based on UNESCO’s standard classification of education. While the CAMCES tool provides context-sensitive response categories (i.e. corresponding to the country in which respondents received their education), fields of education and training are offered in many languages and are offered to respondents in the language of the survey. The tools are available at www.surveycodings.org