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Q2 2003

This is a EUROSTAT module.

Routing in this module is linked to changes being made to the Core Education questions in Q2 2003, and for that reason this module has changed slightly from the pilot version that was used in Q4 2002.

Life Long Learning (LLL - EUROSTAT)

PERM

The following set of questions try to collect information about different types of learning that you may have been involved in during the past 12 months. This is not necessarily school or college based education but also other less structured forms of education for people of all ages.

Proceed with these questions?

1. Yes
2. No

Regular/Formal Education

This section covers the regular education system (formal education, including schools, colleges and universities) which the respondent has attended sometime during the last 12 months.

- purpose and format are predetermined.
- provided in the system of schools, colleges, universities and other educational institutions
- it normally constitutes a continuous ladder of education.
- it is structured in terms of learning objectives, learning time and learning support
- it is normally intended to lead to a certification recognised by national authorities qualifying for a specific education/programme)

If the respondent has not been a student or apprentice in the past four weeks

LLLSTAT

During the last 12 months have you been a student or an apprentice in regular education?

1 Has been a student or an apprentice
2 Has not been a student or an apprentice

If respondent has been a student or apprentice during the last 12 months but not in the last four weeks

LLLEVEL

What was the level of this education or training?

Note: Select most recent if more than one.

2. Primary
3. Secondary 1 (e.g. Group, Inter and Junior Certs, O levels, NCVA Foundation)
4. Transition Year Programme
5. Secondary 2 (e.g. Leaving Cert, A levels, NCVA/FAS/FETAC level 1)
6. Technical or Vocational (e.g. Secretarial, PLC, NCVA/FAS/FETAC level 2 or 3 Teagasc Cert/Diploma, Youthreach
7. Higher Education; Certificate/Diploma (e.g. Undergraduate National Cert/Diploma, Cadetship (Army, Navy etc.),

Diploma in Police studies)
8. Primary degree
9. Professional (degree equivalent or higher)
10. Postgraduate certificate or Diploma
11. Postgraduate degree (taught or researched)
12. Doctorate
13. Other

LLLFIELD

You have indicated that you have been a student or an apprentice within the past 12 months. What subject(s) did you study?

Note: Select most recent if more than one.

1. General programmes
2. Teacher training and education science
3. Foreign languages
4. Humanities, languages and arts
5. Social sciences, business and law
6. Computer science
7. Computer use
8. Mathematics and statistics
9. Physical science (including Physics, Chemistry and Earth science)
10. Life science (including Biology and Environmental science)
11. Science, mathematics and computing (no distinction possible)
12. Engineering, manufacturing and construction
13. Agriculture and veterinary
14. Health and welfare
15. Services
16. Unknown
17. Not applicable

Non-formal education

This section refers to all organised learning activities outside regular education. This is what may be called non-formal education and training.

Normally you have to register for each activity. This means that if you attend a series of courses (modular) each module is considered a separate activity if you can join each of them independently and have to register (apply) for each of them to attend them. If you on the contrary only can attend all of the modules as a whole and only have to register (apply) once for the whole series of modules they are all considered as one activity.

• Attending a course or a seminar to get or to improve skills, knowledge and competence. This includes both courses leading to certificates and courses not leading to certificates. The courses can be attended to improve job related knowledge or improve skills for social and personal purposes.
• Attending a correspondence course, a tele-teaching or a comparable measure of teacher-supported distance learning to improve skills, knowledge or competence.

Examples: Grinds, music lessons, night classes, art courses, piano lessons, courses in Tai Chi, riding lessons etc. (courses for personal/social reasons)

LCOURATT

How many, if any, courses, seminars, conferences or private lessons or instructions have you received outside the regular education system within the last 12 months?

1 Participated in one (1) taught activity
2 Participated in two (2) taught activities
3 Participated in three (3) taught activities
4 Participated in more than three taught activities
5 Didn’t attend any taught activities during the previous 12 months
6 Not applicable

Note: Courses 'outside regular education' include seminars, conferences, night classes, grinds or other forms of private tuition (e.g. music classes), and also on the job training courses.

COURLENA

How many hours did you spend at the most recent taught activity over the past 12 months? ___ 3 digits

Note: This does not include time spent in travel or homework, and only refers to time within the teaching environment.

Note: This refers to courses, seminars, conferences or private lessons or instructions that have been received outside the regular education system .

COUPURPA

What were the main reasons for participating in this taught activity? (1)

1. Mainly job related reasons
2. Mainly personal/social reasons
3. Not applicable

The following definitions apply:

Job-related (professional): the respondent takes part in this activity in order to obtain knowledge and/or learn new skills for a current or a future job, increase earnings, improve job- and/or carreer opportunities in a current or another field and generally improve his/her opportunities for advancement and promotion.

Non job-related (personal/social): the respondent take part in this activity in order to develop competencies required for personal, community, domestic, social or recreational purposes.

COURFLDA

Which was the general subject area of this taught activity? (1)

1. General programmes
2. Teacher training and education science
3. Foreign languages
4. Humanities, languages and arts
5. Social sciences, business and law
6. Computer science
7. Computer use
8. Mathematics and statistics
9. Physical science (including Physics, Chemistry and Earth science)
10. Life science (including Biology and Environmental science)
11. Science, mathematics and computing (no distinction possible)
12. Engineering, manufacturing and construction
13. Agriculture and veterinary
14. Health and welfare
15. Services
16. Unknown
17. Not applicable

COURWORA

Did any part of this taught activity take place during paid working hours? (1)

1. Only during paid hours
2. Mostly during paid hours
3. Mostly outside paid hours
4. Only outside paid hours
5. No job at that time
6. Not applicable

Note: This variables captures the extent to which the course is supported by the respondent’s employer.

COURLENB

How many hours did you spend at the second most recent taught activity over the past 12 months? ___ 3 digits

Note: This does not include time spent in travel or homework, and only refers to time within the teaching environment.

Note: This refers to courses, seminars, conferences or private lessons or instructions that have been received outside the regular education system.

COUPURPB

What were the main reasons for participating in this taught activity? (2)

1. Mainly job related reasons
2. Mainly personal/social reasons
3. Not applicable

COURFLDB

Which was the general subject area of this taught activity? (2)

1. General programmes
2. Teacher training and education science
3. Foreign languages
4. Humanities, languages and arts
5. Social sciences, business and law
6. Computer science
7. Computer use
8. Mathematics and statistics
9. Physical science (including Physics, Chemistry and Earth science)
10. Life science (including Biology and Environmental science)
11. Science, mathematics and computing (no distinction possible)
12. Engineering, manufacturing and construction
13. Agriculture and veterinary
14. Health and welfare
15. Services
16. Unknown
17. Not applicable

COURWORB

Did any part of this taught activity take place during paid working hours? (2)

1. Only during paid hours
2. Mostly during paid hours
3. Mostly outside paid hours
4. Only outside paid hours
5. No job at that time
6. Not applicable

COURLENC

How many hours did you spend at the third most recent taught activity over the past 12 months? ___ 3 digits

Note: This does not include time spent in travel or homework, and only refers to time within the teaching environment.

Note: This refers to courses, seminars, conferences or private lessons or instructions that have been received outside the regular education system.

COUPURPC

What were the main reasons for participating in this taught activity? (3)

1. Mainly job related reasons
2. Mainly personal/social reasons
3. Not applicable

COURFLDC

Which was the general subject area of this taught activity? (3)

1. General programmes
2. Teacher training and education science
3. Foreign languages
4. Humanities, languages and arts
5. Social sciences, business and law
6. Computer science
7. Computer use
8. Mathematics and statistics
9. Physical science (including Physics, Chemistry and Earth science)
10. Life science (including Biology and Environmental science)
11. Science, mathematics and computing (no distinction possible)
12. Engineering, manufacturing and construction
13. Agriculture and veterinary
14. Health and welfare
15. Services
16. Unknown
17. Not applicable

COURWORC

Did any part of this taught activity take place during paid working hours? (3)

1. Only during paid hours
2. Mostly during paid hours
3. Mostly outside paid hours
4. Only outside paid hours
5. No job at that time
9. Not applicable

LCOURLEN

If you participated in more than three taught activities, state the duration in number of taught hours for all taught activities (including the 3 you have described above). Only time spent during the previous 12 months should be included.

Number of taught hours _______

Note: This does not include time spent in travel or homework, and only refers to time within the teaching environment.

Note: This refers to courses, seminars, conferences or private lessons or instructions that have been received outside the regular education system.

Informal education

This section covers informal learning and measures whether the respondent has used each of the 4 following methods for non-taught learning (including self-learning) with the purpose to improve his/her skills during the last 12 months, which wasn’t part of a taught activity or program of studies.

It is supposed to be ‘beyond institutionalised education’ which means that the activity is performed by the respondent only and that there is no teacher, school or institution directly involved in this learning.
The purpose is to register types of methods used, not the volume or number of activities. In essence this is self-taught learning

There is no lower time limit, no minimum requirement of for instance 1 day. The respondent decides if he/she has used the method irrespective of the length.

INFORAT1

Now I am going to ask you about any sort of learning that you might have done on your own in the past 12 months. This is learning that is not taught or organised in a formal way, but covers any sort of learning that you engage in with the aim of improving your skills.

For example things like using DIY books, watching gardening programmes on the television, or using computer software to teach you how to type.

NOTE: One activity can result in using more than one of the following activities (e.g. borrowing a professional book from the library)

INFORAT1A

Have you in the past 12 months used any of the following?

Professional books and magazines (e.g. DIY, Cooking, Gardening, Interior decorating)

1. Used
2. Not used

INFORAT2

Online internet based education (e.g. online lectures, web-sites of educational interest)

Note: This does not include registration in formal online courses such as might be provided as distance education (e.g. Open University)

1. Used
2. Not used

INFORAT3

Educational broadcasting (e.g. videos, tapes and television programmes) and offline computer material (e.g. CD-roms & PC software)

1. Used
2. Not used

INFORAT4

Visited libraries or other types of centre where information is available (e.g. resource centres, museums, interpretive centres)

1. Used
2. Not used