Table TDI-12. Education status of clients entering treatment, 2008 or most recent year available [see all tables in this series...]

Part (i) New outpatient clients by country and education status (%)

Country		Primary level not completed	Primary level of education	Secondary level of education	Higher level of education	Status known (n)	Status not known
Belgium	(1)	2.2	21.4	69.8	6.6	590	57
Bulgaria		7.4	28.8	60.0	3.7	215	10
Czech Republic		12.3	51.9	34.1	1.6	915	88
Denmark		7.7	32.5	53.7	6.2	1284	154
Germany	(2)	0.0	24.2	75.8	0.0	11156	662
Estonia	(3)	0.0	58.9	41.1	0.0	175	1
Ireland	(4)	4.9	24.2	67.2	3.8	1624	224
Greece		2.0	23.2	65.7	9.1	1163	46
Spain	(5)	1.2	42.5	51.5	4.8	22323	711
France		0.2	3.7	62.7	33.4	7203	1654
Italy		0.7	72.8	24.3	2.2	29681	7521
Cyprus		1.2	52.2	39.4	7.2	249	9
Latvia		19.1	52.5	27.2	1.2	659	0
Lithuania		1.2	0.8	92.7	5.3	245	27
Luxembourg						0	6
Hungary		3.4	43.4	49.9	3.3	1234	17
Malta	(6)	0.0	40.9	49.1	10.1	159	258
Netherlands	(7)	11.4	37.3	43.4	7.9	5500	1047
Austria		1.1	6.0	91.9	1.0	1645	58
Poland
Portugal		3.6	78.1	14.0	4.2	6472	547
Romania		6.7	54.9	32.6	5.8	344	68
Slovenia	(8)	2.8	41.3	54.3	1.6	254	24
Slovakia		4.2	38.5	54.1	3.2	377	21
Finland		5.4	63.4	27.7	3.5	202	12
Sweden		12.7	42.5	37.3	7.5	684	49
United Kingdom
Croatia		2.0	30.3	63.7	4.0	1394	36
Turkey
Norway
Total		2.1	47.5	44.7	5.7	95747	13307

Notes:

 Percentages are of clients whose status is known (n).               

 (1) Last data available refer to 2005 and to outpatient centres and low threshold agencies (aggregated data). Data do not cover Brussels Capital Region 

 (2) The category "never went to school" is not available, due to the obligation to visit school at least for 9 years, it can be assumed, that nearly nobody (very few exceptions) has not visited school at least for four years. Higher education is categorised along with a different variable that asks more for professional education, however, there are only very few cases with completed higher education (following the ISCED categories). 

 (3) - Primary level education is until the end of 9th grade, as from 9th grade the pupil ended the first stage of the schooling and can leave the school. "Vocational education" is taken as "the secondary level of education" as well as ended high-school is secondary level. "Higher education" consists of variables such as "professional higher education (applied higher education)", "higher education (diploma/bachelor's degree", "higher education (master degree)", "Phd/candidate". 

 (4) 261 new cases excluded as they are still in education. This is not possible to include these cases according to the maximum attained level of education as these clients are currently still in education. Also, it is not possible to directly record the maximum level of completed education based upon a client being still in education and 16 years old in our information system. In Ireland a person may generally completes secondary level between the ages of 17-19, however there are instances where people have completed their leaving cert aged 16. If a client is older and has returned to education, it would be impossible to infer a maximum level of completed education, for example a client aged 50 may have returned to education but their the maximum level of education completed to date could be any of the following: never completed primary level, primary, or secondary level. 

 (5) Last data available refer to 2007 and to outpatient and prisons treatment centres (aggregated data). 

 (6) Last data available refer to 2006. Data refer to Outpatient and specialised inpatient treatment centres, low-threshold agencies and units in prison. 

 (7) Data refer to outpatient treatment centres, inpatient treatment centres and low-threshold agencies (aggregated data). 

 (8) - Category "Never went to school/Never completed primary school" refers only to Never completed primary school.               

 See also ‘General notes for interpreting data’ on the Explanatory notes and help page. 

Sources:

 Reitox national reports 2009 — Table TDI — outpatient treatment centres. 

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