Adult learning and skills

Statistics

Activities of adult learning associations
Shows education arranged by popular education organizations from different angles.
Adult education
The Adult Education Survey collect information on the scope and content of various forms of adult learning.
Adults in primary and lower secondary school
Information about adult participants in primary and lower secondary school.
Adult skills
The statistics give an overview on literacy and numeracy skills in the population aged 16–65 years.
Continuing Vocational Training Survey
Results from the survey gives information about the extent of courses and other forms of continuing vocational training in enterprises within both private and public sectors.
Education accounts
Describes Norway’s total current expenditures on education and job training, as well as capital investments in Education
Employees in kindergartens and schools
Statistics about employees in schools (from kindergarten to grade 13) and adult education.
Introduction programme for immigrants
Participants and previous participants in introduction programme for immigrants
Lifelong learning
The Learning Conditions Monitor (LCM) focuses mainly on participation in education.
Norwegian for adult immigrants
The participation in Norwegian language training and social studies of adult immigrants.
Folk high schools
The statistics has been discontinued
Adult education, accredited web-based schools
The statistics give numbers on pupils and students in web-based courses.
The statistics has been discontinued

Analyses, articles and publications

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  1. Adults in primary and lower secondary school and how they progress

    This report examines the participants in primary education for adults during the 2022/2023 school year and describes the characteristics of those who show progression and transition to upper secondary education and employment one year later.

  2. Former participants in the Introduction Programme 2005-2021

    The Introduction program, introduced in 2004, includes both the introduction program and the introduction benefit. The program is regulated by the Integration Act, which in 2021 replaced the Introduction Act from 2003.

  3. Facts about education in Norway 2025

    The Facts about education publication includes most of the figures on education in Norway – from kindergarten to university.

  4. Adult skills in literacy, numeracy and adaptive problem solving

    This report presents the Norwegian results from PIAAC cycle 2, the biggest international assessment of skills in literacy, numeracy and adaptive problem solving among adults aged 16 to 65 years. The data collection for the survey started in 2022 and was finished in 2023.

  5. Who participates in further formal education and why?

    The report surveys adults' participation in various forms of lifelong learning. In this report, results from the survey on learning among adults 2022 are used to map participation in various types of education and training.

  6. Facts about education in Norway 2024

    The Facts about education publication includes most of the figures on education in Norway – from kindergarten to university.

  7. Final methodological and implementation report

    This report provides the final results of the project “Improvements for the Norwegian AES”. The project was funded within the framework of the EU grants for the Adult Education Survey (AES) 2022 – Statistical infrastructure under IESS.

  8. Facts about education in Norway 2023

    The Facts about education publication includes most of the figures on education in Norway – from kindergarten to university.

  9. Former participants in the Introduction Programme 2005-2019

    The introduction program for newly arrived foreign nationals is an integration policy measure that all Norwegian municipalities are obliged to offer newly arrived refugees and their family reunifications in accordance with the Introduction Act (Act of 4 July 2003 no. 80).

  10. Test resultats and labour market status- Former participants in The introduction programme

    The main purpose of this report is to conduct a descriptive study of whether the Norwegian language test results have implications on labour market participation among former participants in the introduction programme.

Older analyses, articles and publications
for subtopic adult education.