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

Part (ii) All 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)	1.5	30.4	64.0	4.1	3188	394
Bulgaria		5.3	24.8	62.9	7.1	1295	32
Czech Republic		8.6	47.6	41.5	2.3	1877	170
Denmark		10.6	29.4	53.5	6.5	3759	613
Germany	(2)	0.0	21.5	78.5	0.0	41992	3466
Estonia	(3)	0.0	52.6	45.8	1.6	624	1
Ireland	(4)	6.0	30.0	61.1	2.9	4026	483
Greece		1.6	21.4	67.6	9.4	2244	67
Spain	(5)	1.3	45.0	49.7	3.9	48515	2040
France		0.5	4.5	63.3	31.7	29257	11948
Italy		0.6	73.2	23.9	2.3	46192	12334
Cyprus		1.0	54.1	35.7	9.2	490	22
Latvia
Lithuania		1.2	0.8	92.7	5.3	245	5563
Luxembourg		1.1	63.0	34.3	1.7	181	59
Hungary		3.3	43.9	49.4	3.4	1925	77
Malta	(6)	0.0	45.0	47.4	7.6	331	427
Netherlands	(7)	11.6	41.1	40.7	6.6	8504	1628
Austria		0.9	6.8	91.2	1.0	3771	188
Poland
Portugal
Romania		7.1	54.6	32.9	5.4	368	72
Slovenia	(8)	2.1	38.7	57.9	1.3	608	62
Slovakia		3.3	42.4	52.0	2.3	736	31
Finland		3.4	66.4	28.7	1.6	1032	88
Sweden		12.6	45.3	35.8	6.3	1552	249
United Kingdom
Croatia		1.5	27.2	66.8	4.5	6382	67
Turkey
Norway
Total		1.7	38.4	53.1	6.8	209094	40081

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). Altogether they sum up to 299 men and 103 women (all treatments). 

 (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) 331 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 and to outpatient, inpatient treatment centres, low-threshold agencies, units in prison and dual-diagnosis unit of psychiatric hospital (aggregated data). 

 (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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