Mikrocensus 1996, 2. quarter: Birth-Biography, Educational Career

Many people live in extramarital life partnerships. On the other hand, divorce rates have increased so much that nowadays every third married couple gets a divorce. To add numbers to these undeniable trends it is necessary to have reliable information from the Mikrozensus standard surveys complemented by Mikrozensus special surveys.

The topic educational career has never been covered so thoroughly in any Mikrozensus, although some questions had been part of past special programs, e.g. in the special program “advanced education” from December 1989 (Mikrozensus MZ8904). There is no available up-to-date data which would give sufficient information for various problems (e.g. Europe-wide programs with educational-political goals or labour force research in Austria) since results from the institutionalised educational statistics (school- and high-school statistics) as well as the population census offer only limited information.