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‘Education’ as a sociological background characteristic is, even in national surveys, neither uniquely defined nor easy to operationalise (Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik 1997). One must first decide what is to be measured by education (Braun and Müller 1997): either a) achieved ‘knowledge’ and/or achieved ‘skills’ or b) ‘formal education’ or ‘certificates’. It is only in step two that the question of how to measure education arises.
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Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, J.H.P. (2003). The Classification of Education as a Sociological Background Characteristic. In: Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, J.H.P., Wolf, C. (eds) Advances in Cross-National Comparison. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9186-7_12
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