Dutch Vocational Education Qualification Files, 2020 Revision

Revised qualification files from the Netherlands describe the requirements students must meet to obtain a diploma in vocational education. The data is published by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations in XML format under a CC-BY-SA-4.0 license. Each file contains one or more qualifications that together form a national qualification structure.

Use Cases

• Analyze the structure of vocational qualifications based on the described qualification files.
• Map diploma requirements to industry needs based on the description linking job success to business requirements.
• Study the composition of a national qualification structure based on the described framework of files and choice parts.

Strengths

• Data is provided under an open CC-BY-SA-4.0 license, permitting reuse and adaptation.
• The description explicitly links the quality of diploma requirements to labor market outcomes for graduates and businesses.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties (Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, Netherlands)

Collection Method

Administrative compilation of official qualification standards.

Time Range

2020 revision.

Freshness

The dataset title references a 2020 revision, but the specific last updated date is unknown.

Geography

Netherlands