Statistics Iceland
Statistical Database
Íslenska
Statistical database
The 3 steps are Choose table, Choose variable and Show result. You are currently at Choose variable

Census: Education status by sex 1950-2021

Choose variables

9/12/2023
Persons
1950-2021
CEN9904
Now you have come to the page, Choose variable. This page give you the oportunity to select which variables and values you want to display in your result of the table. A variable is a property of a statistical unit. The page is divided into several boxes, one for each variable, where you can select values by click to highlight one or more values. It always starts with the statistics variable which is the main value counted in the table.
Mandatory

Selected 0 of total 3

Mandatory

Selected 0 of total 6

Mandatory

Selected 0 of total 5

Number of selected data cells are:
(maximum number allowed is 100,000)

Presentation on screen is limited to 10,000 rows and 100 columns

Number of selected cells exceeds the maximum allowed 100,000
Source for 1950 and 1960: Population Census on December 1 1960. Hagstofa Íslands, Reykjavík 1969.
Questions on educational attainment were first included in the 1950 census. The classification of education in 1960 was essentially the same as in 1950 as well as in 1981. The latter data were reclassified in accordance with ISMENNT-2011 providing the starting year of the statistical education register. The educational register is the basis for the 1981, 2011 and 2021 education figures.
When comparing censuses, the following must be considered: completion of minor courses for navigation or ship engine was considered as vocational education in the 1950 census, but not counted in later censuses and the statistical education register. For that reason, the 1950 figures are not fully comparable to later censuses. Another change is that degrees from all women's schools were considered vocational education in the 1950s, but in 1960 the degree from the Women's School in Reykjavík was included in the same category as the general education degree (real school).
In ISMENNT-2011 classification of educational attainment, a one-year study after compulsory education, such as one-year vocational education or a one-year pre-vocational school, is not considered as and education at the upper secondary level, but is included here in the 1981, 2011 and 2021 figures in order to improve the comparison with 1950 and 1960.