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Infant education. School units and pupils. By ownership of centre and sex. Counties and Aran

Infant education. School units and pupils. By ownership of centre and sex. Total. Counties, areas and provinces Catalonia
Students
Units Boys Girls Total
SY 2013/14 16,847 167,195 156,491 323,686
SY 2012/13 17,148 170,010 159,708 329,718
SY 2011/12 17,716 174,930 164,049 338,979
SY 2010/11 17,128 170,720 159,707 330,427
Source: Ministry of Education.
Notes:
Only includes data for centres authorised by the Department of Education.
Law 23/2010, of July 22, on the creation of the area of Penedès, divides Catalonia into eight territorial planning areas. This change implies that the data for the Metropolitan Area, Central Counties and Camp de Tarragona are not directly comparable with previous years.
Infant education. School units and pupils. By ownership of centre and sex. Public sector. Counties, areas and provinces Catalonia
Pupils
Units Boys Girls Total
SY 2013/14 11,294 112,883 104,732 217,615
SY 2012/13 11,466 114,731 107,193 221,924
SY 2011/12 11,790 117,259 109,787 227,046
SY 2010/11 11,206 112,630 104,976 217,606
Source: Ministry of Education.
Notes:
Only includes data for centres authorised by the Department of Education.
Law 23/2010, of July 22, on the creation of the area of Penedès, divides Catalonia into eight territorial planning areas. This change implies that the data for the Metropolitan Area, Central Counties and Camp de Tarragona are not directly comparable with previous years.
Infant education. School units and pupils. By ownership of centre and sex. Private sector. Counties, areas and provinces Catalonia
Students
Units Boys Girls Total
SY 2013/14 5,553 54,312 51,759 106,071
SY 2012/13 5,682 55,279 52,515 107,794
SY 2011/12 5,926 57,671 54,262 111,933
SY 2010/11 5,922 58,090 54,731 112,821
Source: Ministry of Education.
Notes:
Only includes data for centres authorised by the Department of Education.
Law 23/2010, of July 22, on the creation of the area of Penedès, divides Catalonia into eight territorial planning areas. This change implies that the data for the Metropolitan Area, Central Counties and Camp de Tarragona are not directly comparable with previous years.

Last update: July 20, 2015.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Infant education
Etapa educativa preobligatòria que s'imparteix als infants de 0 a 6 anys. S'organitza en dos cicles de tres cursos: primer cicle o primera infància (de 0 a 3 anys) i segon cicle o primer ensenyament (de 3 a 6 anys). Poden impartir el primer cicle d'educació infantil els centres creats o autoritzats per l'Administració educativa. Els centres que únicament imparteixen el primer cicle d'educació infantil tenen la denominació genèrica de llar d'infants o escola bressol.

Methodological aspects

The data on infant, primary and secondary education is taken from an exploitation of the data provided by the Generalitat de Catalunya's Ministry of Education or teaching centres at all education levels. The public sector includes data for the centres that depend on the Ministry of Education and other public administrations, while the private sector deals with privately owned centres.

In 1990 the Law for general ordering of the education system (LOGSE) was passed, which modifies the previous education system (LGE) of 1970. In the 1991/92 academic year the teaching approved by the new law was gradually introduced and the 2000/01 academic year was the first in which none of the teaching relating to the previous education system was still in existence.

However, the two education models coexisted over the long period of experimentation and implantation of the new education law.

The data on centres and teaching staff is given, on the one hand, for infant and primary education as a whole, and on the other, for secondary education, although it is often the case that centres and teachers overlap in terms of the different levels given.

Data are provisional.