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What is the ratio of foreign-born to native people with tertiary education?

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Definition:	Ratio of foreign born to native born population with tertiary attainment (ISCED 5 and above), age group 15-64 years
Year:	2019
Unit:	Ratio
Direction:	Deviation from optimum
Source 1:	Eurostat Online Database
Data for:	AUT, BEL, BGR, HRV, CYP, CZE, DNK, EST, FIN, FRA, DEU, GRC, HUN, ISL, IRL, ITA, LVA, LTU, LUX, MLT, NLD, NOR, POL, PRT, ROU, SVK, SVN, ESP, SWE, CHE, TUR, GBR
Annotation:	Eurostat: Dataset: Population by educational attainment level, sex, age and country of birth (%) [edat_lfs_9912] URL: https://appsso.eurostat.ec.e… extracted May 19th, 2020
Source 2:	OECD Indicators of Immigration Integration 2018
Data for:	AUS, CAN, CHL, ISR, JPN, KOR, MEX, NZL, USA
Exceptions:	AUS (2017), CAN (2017), CHL (2017), ISR (2017), JPN (2017), KOR (2017), MEX (2017), NZL (2017), USA (2017)
Annotation:	Year 2017: OECD Indicators of Immigrant Integration 2018, Figure 3.1. Low- and highly educated URL: http://www.oecd.org/publicat… http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/88… Year 2015: OECD: Dataset: Database on Migrants in OECD Regions, URL: https://stats.oecd.org/Index… extracted Oct. 25th, 2018 Year 2013: OECD Indicators of Immigrant Integration 2015, Table 7.A1.1. Distribution of the immigrant and native-born populations not in education, 15-64 year-olds, by level of education, 2012-13 URL: http://www.oecd.org/els/mig/… http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/88… Year 2010: OECD Indicators of Immigrant Integration, Settling in in 2012, Table 1.A1.2. Educational attainment of foreign-born and native-born populations aged 15 to 64 not in education, 2009-10 URL: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.or…

Calculation:	Long-term data series were used to set appropriate minimum and maximum values.
Minimum:	0
Maximum:	1.025
/	Optimum/Above IQR boundary value. See FAQ for further information.
Optimum:	1
Distance:	Distance=(absolute value(optimum- value for calculation)-minimum)/ (maximum-minimum)
Score:	Score=10-relative distance*9
Annotat.:	Indicator calculcated by Margit Kraus (Calculus Consult)

Top group

Score

FB-N Tertiary Attainment

Netherlands

10.0

1.00

Latvia

9.9

0.99

Sweden

9.9

1.01

Austria

9.7

0.97

Cyprus

9.6

0.95

Lithuania

9.5

0.94

Iceland

9.4

1.07

France

9.2

0.91

USA

9.1

0.90

Germany

9.0

0.89

Norway

9.0

0.89

Switzerland

9.0

1.11

Upper middle group

Belgium

8.9

0.87

Japan

8.9

0.87

Croatia

8.6

0.84

Turkey

8.6

1.16

Denmark

8.4

1.18

Finland

7.7

0.74

Spain

7.6

0.73

7.5

1.29

Italy

7.3

0.69

Canada

7.2

1.32

Estonia

7.2

1.32

Ireland

7.0

1.34

Portugal

6.8

1.36

Chile

6.6

1.39

Israel

6.6

1.39

South Korea

6.5

0.60

Lower middle group

Australia

5.9

1.47

Hungary

5.8

1.48

Czechia

5.7

1.49

Greece

5.7

0.51

Slovenia

5.3

0.47

Slovakia

4.8

1.59

New Zealand

3.9

1.70

Poland

3.4

1.75

Bottom group

Bulgaria

2.9

1.81

Luxembourg

2.6

1.84

Malta

2.2

1.89

Mexico

1.0

2.37

Romania

1.0

2.78