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UKÄ higher education
Throughput, establishment, retention, social background, mobility, teacher education and finances across the Swedish higher education sector, plus SCB base data.
Sector-level indicators for Swedish higher education — how many finish, how many stay, who they are and what it costs — with the underlying student and degree counts alongside.
What it is
Section titled “What it is”The Swedish Higher Education Authority (UKÄ) publishes indicators about the sector. This integration carries them in a local store that is refreshed nightly, and adds live queries to SCB’s statistical database for the base data: students, full-time equivalents, degrees and new entrants.
That split is deliberate, and the integration reports which side an answer came from.
Use it for
Section titled “Use it for”- “How has throughput developed in this subject area over the last five years?”
- “What does establishment on the labour market look like after this kind of degree?”
- “Compare social background across these programmes.”
- “How many new entrants did teacher education have last year?”
- “What does the sector’s economy look like, by institution?”
| Function | Answers |
|---|---|
| Usage guide | Which of the two sources answers which question — the assistant reads this first |
| Harvest status | How current the local UKÄ store is, measured rather than assumed |
| List indicators | Which UKÄ indicators exist to be queried |
| Query indicator | The figures for one indicator, filtered |
| Search | Indicators and tables matching a keyword |
| Browse SCB | SCB’s database structure |
| SCB metadata | What an SCB table contains before asking for figures |
| Fetch SCB data | The base data itself: students, full-time equivalents, degrees, new entrants |
Data and permissions
Section titled “Data and permissions”- Public statistics. Nothing about your organisation passes through.
- Read-only.
- Two freshness models. UKÄ indicators come from a store refreshed nightly; SCB data is fetched live. The harvest-status tool exists so the assistant can state which, rather than implying everything is current.
Getting started
Section titled “Getting started”Add the MCP server to an assistant and ask.
Limitations
Section titled “Limitations”- Aggregate statistics. Nothing here is about an individual student.
- Sweden only.
- The UKÄ side can lag by up to a day, and rather more if a nightly harvest failed — which is exactly why the harvest-status tool is there and why the usage guide tells the assistant to check it before presenting a figure as current.
- Indicators are constructed measures. “Establishment” and “throughput” have specific definitions set by UKÄ; a figure read without its definition is easy to misread.
- UKÄ and SCB figures may not be directly comparable, being produced on different cycles and sometimes different populations.