The folder 'Educational attainment of population (edat1)' presents data on the highest level of education successfully completed by the individuals of a given population.

The folder 'Transition from education to work (edatt)' covers data on young people neither in employment nor in education and training – NEET, early leavers from education and training and the labour status of recent graduates, i.e. of young people by years since completion of highest level of education.

The data shown are calculated as annual averages of quarterly EU Labour Force Survey data (EU-LFS).

Up to the reference year 2008, the data source (EU-LFS) is, where necessary, adjusted and enriched in various ways, in accordance with the specificities of an indicator, including the following:

Details on the adjustments are available in CIRCABC .

The adjustments are applied in the following online tables:

• Population in private households by educational attainment level (edat_lfse_03) - Population in private households by educational attainment level and NUTS 2 region (edat_lfse_04)

(Other tables shown in the folder 'Educational attainment of population (edat1)' are not adjusted and therefore the results in these tables might differ).

Tables in the folder ‘Labour status of recent graduates (edatt2)’ and LFS ad-hoc module data available in the folder 'Education and training - historical data (educ_h)' are not adjusted.