Revise definition of 'highest level of education data item' for accuracy w.r.t. sequential programs

[hoganwr]

Review definition for “highest level of education data item” in OMRSE to revise portion about “pre-requisite”, which is not applicable in many countries.

The definition currently reads: "A socio-economic data item that is about a person and their completion of an education program (and its type), where that education program is the last one in a sequence (of education programs) that the person has completed, where each education program completed except the last one is a pre-requisite to the education program completed after it."

The issue is that it is not always required to do the actual programs in sequence. Plus there are equivalences involved (e.g., GED vs. High-school diploma).

One potential solution is to instead make reference to competencies: the competencies of one program build on the competencies of the prior program, but those competencies might be acquired (and demonstrated) in alternative ways.

[mbrochhausen]

I like the proposed solution.
Do we also need to change the word "sequence" in the definition, then?

I would also suggest to delete the first parentheses and their content: (and its type).