European Agency Statistics on Inclusive Education: 2014 Dataset Cross-Country Report

The European Agency Statistics on Inclusive Education (EASIE) data collection work builds upon a series of Agency activities. The Agency first collected comparative quantitative data on the numbers of pupils identified as having special educational needs (SEN) in 17 Agency member countries in 1999. This work was an activity under the evaluation of the European Commission’s Socrates programme. The information collected in 1999 was reviewed and considered useful reference material for Agency country representatives. A decision was taken to regularly collect quantitative data on the numbers of pupils identified as having SEN and where they were educated. Such data has been collected by Agency member country representatives and published by the Agency every two years since 2002 (for more details, please refer to the EASIE Methodology Report and the various Special Needs Education Data publications on the Agency website).