Database of fields of education, with explanatory note

<p>In addition to respondents&rsquo; highest educational qualification, some surveys also collect data&nbsp;on their main field of education. Current measurement practice involves either a closed&nbsp;question with highly aggregated response categories, which are difficult to use for&nbsp;respondents, or an open question, requiring expensive post-coding. Therefore, a&nbsp;measurement tool for fields of education was developed in the SERISS-project in work&nbsp;package 8, Task 8.3. In deliverable D8.9 we provide a database of fields of education and&nbsp;training in 34 languages, including the definition of a search tree interface to facilitate&nbsp;navigation of categories for respondents. All 120 standard categories and classification&nbsp;codes are taken from UNESCO&#39;s International Standard Classification of Education for&nbsp;Fields of Education and Training (ISCED-F). For most languages, detailed 3-digit information&nbsp;is available. The database, including a live search feature, is available at the surveycodings&nbsp;website at https://surveycodings.org/articles/codings/fields-of-education. The search tree can&nbsp;be used for respondents&rsquo; self-identification of fields of education and training in computer-assisted surveys. The live search feature can also be used for post-coding open answers in&nbsp;already collected data.&nbsp;</p>