Database of educational attainment, with explanatory note

<p>Most social surveys collect data on respondents&rsquo; educational attainment. Current&nbsp;measurement practice involves a closed question with country-specific response options,&nbsp;which are needed because of the differences between educational systems. However, these&nbsp;are quite difficult to compare across countries. This is a challenge for both migrant and&nbsp;international surveys. Therefore, a measurement tool for educational attainment that was&nbsp;initially developed for German migrant surveys in the CAMCES project (Schneider, Briceno-Rosas, Herzing, et al. 2018; Schneider, Briceno-Rosas, Ortmanns, et al. 2018) was&nbsp;extended in the SERISS-project in work package 8, Task 8.3. In deliverable D8.8, we&nbsp;provide a database of educational qualifications and levels for 100 countries, including the&nbsp;definition of a search tree interface to facilitate the navigation of categories for respondents&nbsp;in computer-assisted surveys. All country-specific categories are linked to 3-digit codes of&nbsp;UNESCO&#39;s International Standard Classification of Education 2011 for Educational&nbsp;Attainment (ISCED-A), as well as to the education coding scheme used in the European&nbsp;Social Survey (ESS), &quot;edulvlb&quot;. A live search of the database via two different interfaces, a&nbsp;search box (for a limited set of countries) and a search tree (for all countries), is available at&nbsp;the surveycodings website at https://surveycodings.org/articles/codings/levels-of-education. The search&nbsp;box and search tree can be implemented in survey questionnaires and thereby be used for&nbsp;respondents&rsquo; self-classification in computer-assisted surveys. The live search feature can&nbsp;also be used for post-coding open answers in already collected data.&nbsp;</p>