The purpose of this list is to record the highest level of education attained by a person.

This list is adapted from the UNESCO: IBE Education Thesaurus (1).

This is a hierarchical list with two levels, as described in Rule No. 3 in the Introduction.

This Micro-thesaurus is used for field 920 Formal Education in the Person format.

CODE
 TERM
 
01
 No education
02 Pre-primary education
03 Primary education
04 Secondary education
04 01 Lower secondary education
04 02 Higher secondary education
05 Higher education
05 01 Short-cycle higher education
90 Other
99 Unknown

(1) United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. International Bureau of Education. UNESCO: IBE Education Thesaurus : A List of Terms for Indexing and Retrieving Documents and Data. Geneva: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation. International Bureau of Education, 1990.