| Value |
Category |
| 01 |
None |
| 02 |
Up to 7 years of compulsory education |
| 03 |
Compulsory education (lower secondary school, middle education, special needs school) |
| 04 |
1-year preliminary course, 1-year general education school, 1-year vocational course, language school (at least 1 year) with certificate of completion, social work year, bridging courses or similar |
| 05 |
2-3 years higher secondary general education not giving access to universities or similar |
| 06 |
Basic vocational edcuation and training (2-4 year apprenticeship or full-time vocational school, commercial diploma, technical college, national vocational qualifications NVQ 1-3 or similar) |
| 07 |
High school-leaving certificate giving access to universities (general baccalaureate) or similar |
| 08 |
Vocational baccalaureate |
| 09 |
Advanced technical and professional training (vocational associate's degree, national vocational qualifications NVQ 4), higher technical or commercial college or similar |
| 10 |
Advanced technical and professional training (i.e national vocational qualification NVQ 5) |
| 11 |
Bachelor's degree (university, ETH or EPF, university of appllied sciences, university of teacher education) |
| 12 |
Master's degree, licentiate, diploma, state examination, post-graduate degree (university, ETH or EPF, university of applied sciences, university of teacher education) |
| 13 |
Doctorate (Ph.D, Research), post-doctoral qualification (habilitation) |
| 99 |
Unknown |
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.