Table TDI-12. Education status of clients entering treatment, 2009 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		1.7	25.4	64.9	8.0	5726	1555
Bulgaria		8.2	19.0	65.6	7.2	1361	40
Czech Republic		5.9	48.0	44.0	2.1	1847	160
Denmark		9.9	30.5	53.6	5.9	4236	723
Germany	(1)	0.0	21.5	78.5	0.0	41012	2427
Estonia	(2)	0.0	54.8	44.5	0.7	686	1
Ireland	(3)	4.7	30.9	61.2	3.2	3917	590
Greece		1.6	22.6	66.3	9.5	2950	34
Spain	(4)	1.3	46.0	48.9	3.9	51347	1808
France		0.5	4.0	63.5	32.1	31990	12641
Italy		0.6	70.0	27.4	2.0	43799	10342
Cyprus		0.9	49.6	38.0	11.5	558	14
Latvia	(5)	:	:	:	:	:	:
Lithuania		:	:	:	:	:	:
Luxembourg		0.0	51.9	46.6	1.5	131	63
Hungary		2.4	43.8	50.5	3.3	3857	102
Malta	(6)	0.0	4.0	84.1	12.0	1564	228
Netherlands	(7)	11.8	40.6	41.9	5.7	8818	1780
Austria		0.7	6.5	91.6	1.2	4020	167
Poland	(8)	1.0	50.1	43.1	5.8	2015	67
Portugal		:	:	:	:	:	:
Romania		3.8	48.9	42.5	4.8	186	350
Slovenia	(9)	1.9	38.7	56.2	3.2	844	72
Slovakia		1.6	40.8	55.5	2.0	740	20
Finland		3.8	68.0	26.6	1.6	1043	100
Sweden		11.5	43.9	36.8	7.7	1992	366
United Kingdom		:	:	:	:	:	:
Croatia		1.5	24.7	68.1	5.6	6706	106
Turkey		:	:	:	:	:	:
Norway		:	:	:	:	:	:
Total		1.6	36.8	54.3	7.2	221345	33756

Notes:

 : Indicates data are not available.               

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

 (1) 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. 

 (2) - Data refers to outpatient and inpatient treatment centres (aggregated data). 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". 

 (3) 350 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. In order to record the maximum level of completed education the requirements for the information system would have to be changed. Such a change will require changing the data collection form and database, along with retraining all service providers. 

 (4) Last data available refer to 2008 and to outpatient and prisons treatment centres (aggregated data). 

 (5) Data refers to outpatient and inpatient treatment centres (aggredated data).               

 (6) Data refer 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) Data refers to 2008 and to 33 health care units.               

 (9) - 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 2010 — Table TDI — outpatient treatment centres. 

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