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EDUCATION AND TRAINING

For this topic, 7 data cubes are currently available. Examples of data items contained in data cubes within this topic include: participation in formal, non-formal and informal adult learning by selected socio-demographic characteristics of participants and non-participants; Australians' literacy skills in the domains of prose literacy, document literacy, numeracy and problem solving; whether non-school qualification obtained in Australia or overseas; region in which qualification was obtained; study and training intentions; barriers to study and work-related training; highest year of school completed; non-school qualifications; level and main field of education; characteristics of training courses; educational enrolment experience; and type of study and attendance.

The migrant population referred to in these data cubes reflects the definition of a 'migrant' as described in the Glossary of migrant related terms unless otherwise stated. This glossary also contains definitions of the data items represented in the table rows of the matrix below. The Australian born population is included in the data cubes for comparative purposes.

For the products below, data are available for the migrant related data items that have a cross ('x') in the corresponding row. To open the data cube, simply click on the product of interest (i.e. column headers) and then click on the data cube icon. For detailed information on how to use these matrices, click on How to use the matrices.

Detailed information on the data collections from which these ABS products are sourced can be found under the Education and Training Topic in the Guide to Migrant Statistical Sources, 2007 (cat. no. 3414.0).

	Adult Learning 2006-07	Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey 2006	Education and Training Experience 2005	Education and Work 2007
Country of birth (person)	x	x	x	x
Country of birth (mother)			x
Country of birth (father)			x
Country of birth (parents)
Country of last residence
Duration of residence
Year of arrival in Australia	x	x	x	x
Age on arrival in Australia			x
Proficiency in spoken English			x
First language spoken as a child			x
Main language other than English spoken at home		x	x
Main language spoken at home
Languages spoken at home
Australian citizenship			x
Ancestry
Religious affiliation
Visa category
Selected demographic characteristics	x	x	x	x
Selected geographic characteristics	x		x	x
Selected work and education characteristics	x	x	x	x
Selected economic characteristics			x

	Education and Work 2006	Labour Force Status and Other Characteristics of Recent Migrants 2007	Labour Force Status and Other Characteristics of Migrants 2004
Country of birth (person)	x	x	x
Country of birth (mother)
Country of birth (father)
Country of birth (parents)
Country of last residence		x	x
Duration of residence
Year of arrival in Australia	x	x	x
Age on arrival in Australia		x	x
Proficiency in spoken English		x	x
First language spoken as a child
Main language other than English spoken at home		x	x
Main language spoken at home
Languages spoken at home
Australian citizenship		x	x
Ancestry
Religious affiliation
Visa category		x	x
Selected demographic characteristics	x	x	x
Selected geographic characteristics	x	x	x
Selected work and education characteristics	x	x	x
Selected economic characteristics