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

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Definition:	Ratio of foreign born to native born population with at least upper secondary attainment (ISCED 3 and above), age group 25-64 years
Year:	2021
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
Exceptions:	TUR (2020)
Annotation:	Eurostat: Dataset: Population by educational attainment level, sex, age and country of birth (%) [edat_lfs_9912] URL: https://ec.europa.eu/eurosta… extracted June 11th, 2022
Source 2:	OECD Online Database
Data for:	AUS, CAN, CHL, ISR, MEX, NZL, GBR, USA
Exceptions:	AUS (2020), CAN (2020), CHL (2020), ISR (2019), MEX (2019), NZL (2020), GBR (2019), USA (2019)
Annotation:	OECD: Dataset: Database on Migrants in OECD Regions, URL: https://stats.oecd.org/Index… extracted June 11th, 2022 For NZL: OECD: Dataset: Education At A Glance 2021, Education and labour market outcomes of native- and foreign-born adults URL: https://stats.oecd.org/Index… extracted June 11th, 2022
Source 3:	OECD Indicators of Immigration Integration 2015
Data for:	JPN, KOR
Exceptions:	JPN (2013), KOR (2013)
Annotation:	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 2011: Arslan, C. et al. (2014), “A New Profile of Migrants in the Aftermath of the Recent Economic Crisis”, OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers, No. 160, OECD Publishing, Table 5. URL: https://www.oecd.org/migrati… 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:	0.425
/	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)

Additional annotations and exceptions

Data for JPN and KOR refer to age group 15-64.

Top group

Score

FB-N Upper Secondary Attainment

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Canada

9.8

1.01

Iceland

9.8

1.01

Lithuania

9.6

1.02

Slovakia

9.6

1.02

South Korea

9.6

1.02

Israel

9.4

1.03

Hungary

9.2

1.04

Latvia

9.2

1.04

Spain

9.2

0.96

Upper middle group

8.9

1.05

Czechia

8.7

0.94

Estonia

8.7

1.06

Poland

8.7

1.06

Romania

8.7

1.06

Luxembourg

8.5

0.93

Australia

8.3

1.08

Cyprus

8.3

0.92

Croatia

8.1

0.91

Ireland

8.1

1.09

Chile

7.9

1.10

Japan

7.9

0.90

Norway

7.9

0.90

Denmark

7.7

0.89

Slovenia

7.2

0.87

Greece

7.0

0.86

Austria

6.8

0.85

Finland

6.6

0.84

USA

6.6

0.84

Bulgaria

6.4

1.17

Netherlands

6.4

0.83

Belgium

6.2

0.82

New Zealand

6.0

1.19

Lower middle group

Italy

5.8

0.80

Switzerland

5.6

0.79

Sweden

5.3

0.78

France

5.1

0.77

Malta

4.5

1.26

Germany

4.1

0.72

Portugal

4.1

1.28

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Bottom group

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Mexico

1.0

1.61

Turkey

1.0

1.53