34. What is the highest recognized education you have achieved?
To be answered by persons of 15 and more years of age.
[] No education
Incomplete basic education:
[] 1-3 grades of primary school
[] 4-7 grades of primary school
[] Unfinished primary school and work training
Basic education:
[] Finished primary school
Upper secondary education:
[] Short-term vocational
[] Vocational
[] Technical
[] General
Post-secondary vocational education:
[] Vocational college
[] University college, university college specialization
Higher undergraduate education:
[] Professional
[] Academic
Higher post-graduate education:
[] Specialization
[] Master's degree
[] Doctor's degree
34 What is the highest recognised education you have achieved?
The question is answered by people aged 15 or more.
A person's highest recognised education can be proven by a public document (school certificate, diploma, etc.).
The person obtained a certain level of education by finishing schooling:
According to publicly recognised programs in regular school;
In a school replacing regular school (part-time education, long-distance education, etc.) by courses, examinations or in some other way according to regulations governing the obtaining of publicly recognised education.
No education is marked by the enumerator for a person who finished no elementary school grade.
1-3 grades of primary school is marked by the enumerator for a person who finished less than 4 elementary school grades.
4-7 grades of primary school is marked by the enumerator for a person who finished at least 4 but not more than 7 elementary school grades (even if when the person attended school higher elementary school grades were called higher national school, lower gymnasium, city school, etc.).
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Unfinished primary school and work training is marked by the enumerator for a person who did not finish elementary school but finished a publicly recognised work training program (first level).
Finished primary school is marked by the enumerator for a person who finished:
4 elementary school grades and 4 grades of higher national school, city school, lower gymnasium, lower grades of full secondary modern or classical gymnasium;
7 grades of the seven-year elementary school when elementary school lasted only 7 years;
8 grades of the eight-year elementary school.
Short-term vocational is marked by the enumerator for a person who finished 1-2.5-year vocational education (semi-skilled workers, assistants, narrow occupations, second level).
Vocational is marked by the enumerator for a person who finished:
School or examinations for skilled workers;
School such as industrial plant schools, apprentice schools, schools for wider occupations (third and fourth levels);
3-year vocational education.
Technical is marked by the enumerator for a person who finished:
School or examinations for highly-skilled workers;
4-5-year school or program of upper secondary technical or other professional education or a vocational course (fifth level);
Master's or foreman or plant manager school or examination.
General is marked by the enumerator if a person finished:
Gymnasium;
Upper secondary program and passed a matura exam;
Pedagogical, socio-linguistic, culturological or natural science-mathematics school in job-oriented education (fifth level).
Vocational college is marked by the enumerator if a person finished a 2-year program of higher vocational education at a higher vocational school. These programs can be entered from the academic year 1996/97 onwards.
Vocational college education that can be obtained according to presently valid regulations is not the same as the one from previous periods. If a person finished a 2- or 2.5-year vocational program at a university college, faculty or academy (sixth level), the enumerator marks education as university college, university college specialisation.
University college, university college specialisation is marked by the enumerator if the person finished:
2- or 2.5-year vocational program at a university college, faculty or academy and got the title of economist, specialist subject teacher, higher...;
1-year specialist program after finishing a university college and got the title of higher..., specialist for...
University colleges lasting 2- or 2.5-years (exceptionally 3 years) started to operate in Slovenia soon after World War II (e.g. teacher training college, college for health workers, college for business and commerce, etc.). Later on college studies were introduced at higher education institutions, faculties and academies. The last academic year when people could enrol in this type of studies was 1995/96, and it had to be finished by the end of the academic year 2001/2002.
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Higher undergraduate professional is marked by the enumerator if the person finished a 3-year (exceptionally a 4-year) higher undergraduate professional study at a higher education institution, faculty or academy (and got the title graduate...).
For the first time people could enrol in these programs in the academic year 1995/96. As a rule they last 3 years, exceptionally 3.5 years.
Higher undergraduate professional education that can be obtained according to presently valid regulations is not the same as the one from previous periods, which is now counted as higher undergraduate academic education. If a person finished studies at a faculty or academy that lasted 4 years or more, his or her education is marked by the enumerator as higher undergraduate academic.
Higher undergraduate academic is marked by the enumerator if the person finished 4- to 6-year higher undergraduate academic study program at a faculty or academy (and got the title university graduate..., professor..., academic...).
Specialisation is marked by the enumerator if the person finished a 1- to 2-year postgraduate specialist study program and got the title of specialist.
Master's degree is marked by the enumerator if the person finished a 2-year postgraduate master's degree program and got the scientific title of Master of Science or Master of Arts.
Doctor's degree is marked by the enumerator if the person finished studies for obtaining a doctor's degree and got the scientific title of Doctor of Science.