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 Students enrolled in tertiary education (No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Students enrolled in tertiary education (No.) by Sex and Age; Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Directorate-General for Education and Science Statistics
First available period 2006 / 2007
Last available period 2022 / 2023
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Geographic localization (Portugal)
  • Sex
  • Age
Concepts
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  The length of time for which data are collected, e.g. a specific day, month or year.
  • STUDENT ENROLLED:  Student enrolling in one or more subjects or curricular units of a course of a tertiary education institution in a given school year.
  • AGE:  The interval of time between the day, month and year of birth and 0:00 a.m. of the reference date. Age is expressed as complete years for adults and children and months, weeks, days, hours or minutes of life, as appropriate, for infants under one year of age.
  • EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION:  Organizational unit that provides one or more education and training offers.
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations Includes students enrolled in international mobility. Includes students enrolled in all courses offered in tertiary education institutions, except enrolled students that are only elaborating a dissertation, project work or final internship, and the enrolled students that do not meet, cumulatively, the following requirements: 60 ECTS, 300 class hours distributed by 2 semesters and final evaluation.
Last update date 16/10/2023


information presented in 25/4/2024