Proposal:ISCED 2011 Level

ISCED 2011 Level
Proposal status:	Obsoleted (inactive)
Proposed by:	Skorbut
Tagging:	isced:2011:level=*
Applies to:	node, area, relation
Definition:	The level(s) of education of a school. Based on the ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) scale of 2011
Statistics:
Draft started:	2022-01-27

While this proposal is obsoleted, have a look at the active proposal Proposed_features/ISCED_2011_Level_of_Education.

Proposal

This proposal aims to remove the ambiguity associated to the tag isced:level=*. This existing tag denotes the level(s) of education a school is offering. The defintions of the levels are based on the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) framework. There are multiple versions of this framework: These versions are distinguished by the year of appearance, i.e. primarily 1997 and 2011. Unfortunately, isced:level=* does not specify the version/year that is being referred to. This proposal therefore introduces a new tag isced:2011:level=* for which the underlying framework is defined. The older tag isced:level=* will be obsoleted. Further, this proposal clarifies which values for key isced:2011:level=* are acceptable.

The isced:2011:level=* tag can be used on all elements that represent some kind of school (e.g. amenity=school, amenity=college, amenity=university), i.e. on nodes, (closed) ways and areas. This is identical to isced:level=*.

Rationale

Incompatibility to ISCED 1997

The initial discussion for tagging ISCED levels assumingly started at Talk:Tag:amenity=school#Level of education. Since early messages were exchanged before 2011, it is to assume that the original proposal referred to the 1997 version of the framework. However, mappers might unknowingly add keys that refer to the ISCED 2011 version. While the two are compatible to a large part, there are nonetheless incompatibilities:

• ISCED 1997 level 5 ("First stage of tertiary education") corresponds to ISCED 2011 level 5 ("Short-cycle tertiary education"), 6 ("Bachelor's or equivalent") or 7 ("Master's or equivalent"). (Sources differ on the exact correspondence.)
• ISCED 1997 level 6 ("Second stage of tertiary education") corresponds to ISCED 2011 level 8 ("Doctorate or equivalent").
  

Features/Pages affected

• Key:isced:level
• Key:isced:2011:level

External discussions

• https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2022-January/063641.html
• Talk:Key:isced:level#ISCED 1997 and 2011 versions

Comments

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