2016 Adult Education Survey (AES)

Abstract

"The aim for the 2016 AES is to further streamline and improve the data collection on adult participation in lifelong learning by both focusing on priority topics and adapting the current content to new policy needs.[...] According to the European statistical programme 2013-2017, the development of statistics provided on education and training includes a 'rationalisation and modernisation of the Adult Education Survey'. The setting up of the Task Force on the 2016 AES was an essential element to define the requirements for the 2016 AES data collection in a way that takes changes and new developments in lifelong learning into account while keeping coherence with 2011 AES where appropriate. The final Commission Regulation was adopted and released in October 2014."
(Eurostat (2017): 2016 AES manual - Annexes. Version 2)