junior secondary education certificate

first stage of basic education | primary education

junior secondary commercial education

Lower secondary education [ ISCED level 2 | Lower secondary education or second stage of basic education | Level 2 ]

The "total population" of the survey, in statistical terms, should be the total number of pupils enrolled in the final year of lower secondary education (ISCED 2), or the second year of upper secondary education (ISCED 3), if a second foreign language is not taught at lower secondary education.

The weighting factors should be calculated taking into account in particular the probability of selection and the available external data relating to the distribution of the population being surveyed, according to sex, age groups (25-34; 35-54; 55-64), education (at most lower secondary education (ISCED level 1 or lower, ISCED 2 and ISCED 3 programmes of less than 2 years); upper secondary (ISCED levels 3 and 4); tertiary education (levels 5 to 8)); employment (employed or unemployed); region (NUTS II level), where such external data are held to be sufficiently reliable at national level.

Learning a foreign language at school is very common in the European Union (EU), with more than 17 million lower secondary school pupils (or 98.6% of all pupils at this education level) studying at least one foreign language in 2015.

In secondary schools, including both lower secondary and upper secondary levels, there were 3.6 million teachers, of which 64% (2.3 million) were female.