Educational trajectories of Russian population

The study is aimed to analyze the educational trajectories of Russian population in the context of age groups, to identify the prevailing types of trajectories and trends in their changes. The information base of the study is the annual panel household survey RLMS-HSE, representative at the national level. There were used data on the age of respondents, presence of diplomas of different levels of education, time of their receipt, code of the obtained profession by ISCO2008. As a result, for the population grouped on 10-year age intervals the following characteristics of educational trajectories for different periods of time were received: distribution of the population by number of formal levels of education, the share of the population received formal education during the analyzed period (in a section of quantity and levels), the share of the population having vertical and horizontal educational trajectories. The obtained data indicate a significantly increased educational mobility of Russian population, especially for young people. Young people who initially receive lower-level vocational education still receive higher education in the future. At the same time, young people are more likely to receive non-full-time education, which is assessed as low-quality education in Russia.