Educational qualification was classified as no formal qualification, school intermediate education, trade, apprenticeship, and university and higher education.
We used four measures of the respondent's current SEP at Wave 3. Education was measured using the respondent's maximum educational qualification over the three waves and categorised as no qualification, school, post-school vocational, or degree and higher qualifications.
The regulatory body says other changes to qualifications, school performance measures and university admissions will also have contributed to the decline in appeals.
There's also information on the qualifications school leavers have.
As for men, women with no qualifications, school qualifications and post-school certificates are relatively undereducated compared with NZ-born women, and while the degree of this declines over time, it remains large.
For foreign-born individuals who have no qualifications, overseas school qualifications or post-school qualifications that cannot be classified by Statistics New Zealand to an equivalent New Zealand qualification, we calculate years of education by using the data collected by Barro & Lee (2001) on worldwide educational attainment.
For men, 22 % of the sample has no qualifications, 27%% school qualifications, 23%% post-school certificates, 11%% post-school diplomas, 11%% bachelor degrees and 6%% higher degrees.
Mr Clegg insisted that this message should be heard by everyone, but that many children from poorer homes look at certain qualifications, schools, universities and jobs and believe they are not meant for them, because that is what they are continually told.
Maternal education was grouped into the following categories based on the highest qualifications: no formal qualifications, secondary school, trade or university qualification.
Education status was categorized into three groups (1: no formal qualifications, 2 : school or equivalent qualifications, 3: degree or equivalent).
GCSE exams, normally taken at 16, are the one qualification most school leavers have, and employers should be able to use them to compare their prospective employees.
