In the context of the SERISS project, the European Values Study and the European Social Survey cooperated closely to harmonise the way we measure educational attainment. So far, educational attainment was measured in different ways thanks to this cooperation it is now easier to compare the information included in each dataset, enhancing therefore the possibilities for research.

In this piece, Lucilla Losi, Angelica Maineri and Ruud Luijkx (European Values Study, Tilburg University) and Silke Schneider and Verena Ortmanns (European Social Survey, GESIS) explain how the measurement of education has been harmonized across the two surveys.