Primary education

Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia

Group for pre-university education and lifelong learning.

Stefan Živković

Statistician-analyst

5 Milana Rakića street, 11000 Belgrade

stefan.d.zivkovic@stat.gov.rs

+381 11 2412922 ext. 285

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State of play at the begining and end of school year by main and additional indicators - number of schools, number of students by sex and grades and age (regular, children with disabilities and adults who attend primary education), number of classes, number of students who attend inclusive education and number of teachers by sex, working hours and ISCED 1 or 2.

The Internation Standard Classification of Education (ISCED 2011).

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The survey provide data on status, structure and development of schools and classes, sex and age structure and movement of primary and lower secondary students, students who attend inclusive education (IEP 1 and IEP 2), students who have finished school and teaching stuff executing primary and lower secondary education.

Statistical unit is every primary school in the Republic of Serbia.

Children attending primary and lower secondary education (regular or for children with disabilities), as well as adults who attend schools for primary education for adults.

The data refer to the territory of the Republic of Serbia.

As of 1999, Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia do not collect data for AP Kosovo and Metohia, se they are not included in this data set for the Republic of Serbia (total).

Annually from 2010.

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Number of students, schools, classes, teachers (in thousands).

Schools year.

Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia has an agreement on cooperation with a large number of organizations and institutions, both nationally and internationally, with which it exchange information, data and experiences. There is also intensive cooperation between different organizational units within the Office itself.

All obtained data from units are published on aggregate level. Individual data can be provided exclusively with special authorisation from Director.

Calendar of releases is available at SORS website: http://www.stat.gov.rs/en-US/calendar.

The data are collecting and publishing on annual level.

Statistical release Primary education - the begining and end of the school year - begining of February.

Database of SORS.

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Methodology on primary education is available on SORS' website (http://www.stat.gov.rs/istrazivanja/methodology-and-documents/?a=11&s=0)

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Various domestic and foreign institutions,

public: ministries, agencies, institutes, other public institutions...

private: enterprises, media, non-governmental organizations...

On biennial basis (once in two years), by the means of web interview, implemented is the User Satisfaction Survey. The survey results are available at SORS website: http://www.stat.gov.rs/en-US/o-nama/sistem-upravljanja-kvalitetom.

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Nationally: 4 months for the entire round of creating, acquiring, processing and data publishing.

For Eurostat: 6 months for delivering all required data (through UOE questionnaire), as of 2014.

Beginning of February.

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Data are comparable in series from 2010 with no interuption. From the end of the 2022/2023 school year. and the beginning of 2023/2024. year, data on primary education do not provide data on regional school departments, so comparability for that indicator has a break in the data series.

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Since it is an annual survey, no significant burden in on reporting units.

The published data should be treated as final, unless otherwise stated. Corrections and revisions might occur.

Data for the end of the 2022/2023 school year, the beginning of 2023/2024 school year and data on primary education were obtained from the database of the Ministry of Education - the Unified Information System of Education (JISP). In conclusion with the beginning of the 2022/2023 school year, the Republic Institute of Statistics conducted regular statistical surveys on primary education, where primary schools submitted statistical reports with the situation at the beginning and the end of the school year.

Annual.

Data on primary education were obtained from the database of the Ministry of Education - the Unified Information System of Education (JISP).

All data go through thorough analysis and logic control before publishing. 

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