EDUCATION LEVEL OF CERTAIN ETHNIC GROUPS IN THE PROVINCE OF VOJVODINA (REPUBLIC OF SERBIA)

Abstract

The Province of Vojvodina is an adequate area for investigating similarities and differences between certain ethnic groups, since there are large numbers of ethnic groups in the area, over 20. The analyses of ethnic groups have been conducted from various aspects, but this research focuses on education level dissimilarities. Due to the compulsory primary education law the population numbers with different education levels were slowly increasing and the illiterate and uneducated population numbers slowly decreased among all ethnic groups after the World War II. Thus the differences in education level decreased. Globalization process contributed to diminishing differences in cultural and educational level among different ethnic groups. However, there are still certain ethnic groups that resist global trends and outshine the others in terms of education level. The data of the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia have been statistically processed and the obtained results were analyzed and used for the estimation of the education level of certain ethnic groups. The analysis and estimation was conducted for the whole Province of Vojvodina, then for rural and urban areas as well as for the municipality level. The analyses of various levels showed certain differences for the same ethnic groups.

Keywords

• education
• ethnic groups
• vojvodina province
• serbia