The majority of data about Education was taken from sources of the ministerial workplace of the State Statistical Service at the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports. The Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports receives data on state universities (the Police Academy of the Czech Republic in Prague and the University of Defence) from the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Defence, respectively, which are founders of the universities.

Data about population structure by educational attainment are taken from the Labour Force Sample Survey (LFSS), which is carried out in the Czech Republic by the CZSO, namely with quarterly periodicity. The survey is carried out in all Member States of the European Union.

Data about lifelong learning are calculated from the results of the Continuing Vocational Training Survey (CVTS) of employees carried out in the European Union, for which the Czech Statistical Office is responsible in the Czech Republic. The survey is carried out with a five-year periodicity (more information here: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/metadata/en/trng_cvt_esms.htm). Another source of data is Adult Education Survey, which is also carried out in the European Union, for which the Czech Statistical Office is responsible in the Czech Republic as well. This survey runs every 6 years. (Further information here: https://www.czso.cz/csu/vykazy/adult-education-survey-aes.)
 

Data on early childhood education up to short-cycle tertiary education are given for school years, except for separate tables with the numbers of teachers and their average gross monthly wages, which show data for calendar years. Data for school years are reported with the status as at 30 September, data for calendar years take into account the whole year period. Data on universities are taken from the SIMS database (i.e. Union Information from Students’ Registers), to which the universities, both public and private, transmit data on students, students enrolled for the first time, and graduates. As for the number of students, the published data are as at 31 December of a given year; the data for students enrolled for the first time and for graduates are for the calendar year. The source SIMS database is continually completed and updated including retrospective corrections.

The numbers of teachers (i.e. including headmasters, their deputies, and guidance counsellors) or in the case of universities professors, readers, and other teaching staff are converted to full-time equivalent persons.

Children/pupils/students in nursery schools up to higher professional schools and students in state universities are reported as numbers of studies (i.e., for example, when a pupil/student is enrolled in multiple study programmes or in multiple schools, he or she is counted multiple times in the relevant piece of data). On the contrary, students in public and private universities are reported as headcount (i.e. one student is counted in each piece of data only once regardless how many schools or how many programmes he or she is studying in). Total numbers of students, graduates, and the enrolled for the first time in public and private universities thus may differ from the sums for individual universities or individual types of education (studies) and types of study programmes.

Children or pupils and students with disabilities are children/pupils/students with a mental handicap or disability, with hearing impairment, with severe speech impediments, with physical disability, with multiple handicaps/disabilities, with severe developmental learning disabilities and developmental behaviour disorders, and with autistic spectrum disorders. They can be individually integrated within common classes, included in special classes in regular schools, or attend schools focusing primarily on education of pupils with special education needs.

Those children, pupils, and students are deemed to be foreigners whose state citizenship is other than Czech. Only a single citizenship is recorded for children, pupils, and students of nursery schools up to higher professional schools; it is that one, which was stated during the enrolment in school or its most recently updated version. For students of public and private universities, more than one citizenship can be recorded.

Founders of schools (except universities) are public or non-public. Public founders are, for example, the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports, a municipality or a union of municipalities, a Region, or another institution of the state administration. Non-public founders of schools are a church or a private sector. Universities by founder are: public, private, and state ones.

More detailed information on education is available on the website of the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports at:

– www.msmt.cz/index.php?lang=2

Further information can be found on the website of the Czech Statistical Office at:

– www.czso.cz/csu/czso/education_lide

or on websites of other institutions at:

– www.mvcr.cz/mvcren/ – Ministry of the Interior

– www.army.cz/en/ – Ministry of Defence
 

Conversion table of the Czech system of education and the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED 2011)

Source: Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports

More detailed information can be found on the website at: www.czso.cz/csu/czso/klasifikace_vzdelani_cz_isced_2011 (Czech only).