4102.0 - Australian Social Trends, 2004

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Education

DISTRIBUTION OF PERSONS AGED 25-64 YEARS BY LEVEL OF EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

	Reference year	Below upper secondary education(a)	Upper secondary education and post-secondary non-tertiary education(b)	Tertiary type B education(c)	Tertiary type A and advanced research programs(d)	Total
	%
Country	%		%	%	%	%

Australia	2001	41	30	10	19	100
Canada	2001	18	40	21	20	100
China (excludes SARs and Taiwan Province)	. .	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	100
France	2001	36	41	11	12	100
Greece	2001	49	33	5	12	100
Hong Kong (SAR of China)	. .	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	100
Indonesia	1999	77	18	2	3	100
Italy	2001	55	35	(e)	10	100
Japan	2001	17	49	15	19	100
Korea (Republic of)	2001	32	44	7	17	100
Malaysia	1998	65	27	-	8	100
New Zealand	2001	24	47	15	14	100
Papua New Guinea	. .	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	100
Singapore	. .	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	100
Sweden	2001	19	49	15	17	100
United Kingdom	2001	17	57	8	18	100
United States of America	2001	13	50	9	28	100
Viet Nam	. .	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	100
(a) International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) levels 0, 1 and 2. For Australia this includes Preschool, Primary School and lower Secondary School levels as well as the Basic Vocational level. (b) International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) levels 3 and 4. For Australia this includes Year 12 completion as well as the Skilled Vocational level. (c) International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) level 5B. For Australia this includes Associate Diplomas and Undergraduate Diplomas. (d) International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) levels 5A and 6. For Australia this includes Bachelor degree level or higher. (e) Data are included in another column of the table. Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) 2003, Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators, 2003, OECD, Paris.

EDUCATIONAL PARTICIPATION(a) AND EXPENDITURE

		Enrolment rates by age group (years)
	Reference year(b)	15-19	20-29	30-39	40 and over	Reference year(b)	Total public expenditure as a proportion of GDP(c)	Total public and private expenditure as a proportion of GDP(d)
	%					%
Country	%		%	%	%	%		%

Australia	2000	81.8	28.2	14.9	7.1	1999	4.5	5.8
Canada	2000	74.2	21.7	4.6	1.2	1999	5.3	6.6
China (excludes SARs and Taiwan Province)	2000	n.a.	n.a.	-	-	1999	2.0	3.7
France	2000	86.4	19.1	1.7	(e)	1999	5.8	6.2
Greece	2000	87.4	16.9	0.1	-	1999	3.6	3.9
Hong Kong (SAR of China)	. .	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	. .	n.a.	n.a.
Indonesia	2001	38.5	3.0	-	-	2000	0.8	1.2
Italy	2000	65.5	18.7	2.3	0.1	1999	4.4	4.8
Japan	. .	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	1999	3.5	4.7
Korea (Republic of)	2000	78.6	23.9	1.4	0.3	1999	4.1	6.8
Malaysia	1999	46.5	6.0	0.5	0.1	1999	5.0	n.a.
New Zealand	2000	72.4	21.4	9.0	3.1	1999	5.9	n.a.
Papua New Guinea	. .	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	. .	n.a.	n.a.
Singapore	. .	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	. .	n.a.	n.a.
Sweden	2000	86.4	33.4	15.0	3.4	1999	6.5	6.7
United Kingdom	2000	73.3	23.8	13.2	5.4	1999	4.4	5.2
United States of America	2000	73.9	21.2	5.4	1.5	1999	4.9	6.5
Viet Nam	. .	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	. .	n.a.	n.a.
(a) Participation rates are based on full-time and part-time enrolments. (b) 1 January of the reference year is considered a good proxy for the mid-point of the school year except for New Zealand, Australia and Korea where 1 July is used as the mid-point of the reference period. (c) Includes both purchases by the government agency itself on educational resources and also appropriations by the government agency to educational institutions which have been given responsibility to purchase educational resources themselves. Also includes public subsidies to households attributable for educational institutions, and direct expenditure on educational institutions from international sources. (d) Public expenditure refers to the spending of public authorities at all levels. Private expenditure refers to expenditure funded by private sources i.e. households, private business firms and nonprofit organisations of religious, charitable or business and labour associations. (e) Data are included in another column of the table. Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) 2003, Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators, 2003, OECD, Paris.

STUDENT PERFORMANCE ON COMBINED READING, MATHEMATICAL AND SCIENTIFIC LITERACY SCALES

		Combined reading literacy		Mathematical literacy		Scientific literacy
	Reference year	Males	Females	Males	Females	Males	Females
	Mean score
Country	Mean score		Mean score	Mean score	Mean score	Mean score	Mean score

Australia	2000	513	546	539	527	526	529
Canada	2000	519	551	539	529	529	531
China (excludes SARs and Taiwan Province)	. .	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
France	2000	490	519	525	511	504	498
Greece	2000	456	493	451	444	457	464
Hong Kong (SAR of China)	. .	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Indonesia	. .	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Italy	2000	469	507	462	454	474	483
Japan	2000	507	537	561	553	547	554
Korea (Republic of)	2000	519	533	559	532	561	541
Malaysia	. .	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
New Zealand	2000	507	553	536	539	523	535
Papua New Guinea	. .	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Singapore	. .	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Sweden	2000	499	536	514	507	512	513
United Kingdom	2000	512	537	534	526	535	531
United States of America	2000	490	518	497	490	497	502
Viet Nam	. .	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) 2001, Knowledge and skills for life: First results from PISA 2000, 2001, OECD, Paris.