The Singapore Department of Statistics is responsible for developing national statistical standards and promoting the adoption of these standards. The Singapore Standard Educational Classification (SSEC) 2000 is the first national statistical standard classification to be developed for education statistics. It is designed for use in censuses of population and statistical surveys of households. The classification may also be used in administrative databases. The adoption of a common framework for classification facilitates data-sharing among producers while consistent and comparable data are available for analysis by users.The SSEC 2000 comprises 3 components: