Data set from Further education and skills

Community Learning In-year comparisons - Participation, Achievement by Age, Sex, LLDD, Ethnicity

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Published 9 September 2024

Last updated 9 September 2024

Community learning comparison across years

Academic years: 2020/21 to 2023/24 reported to date

Indicators: Participation and Achievements including percentages

Filters: Age group, Sex, LLDD, Ethnicity Major, Ethnicity Minor, Minority Ethnic flag

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Data set details

• Theme: Further education
• Publication: Further education and skills
• Release: Academic year 2023/24
• Geographic levels: National
• Indicators:
  • Achievements
  • Achievements percentage
  • Participation
• Filters:
  • Breakdown
• Time period: 2020/21 to 2023/24

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	breakdown_topic	breakdown	participation	achievements	participation_percent	achievements_percent
202324	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Total	Total	273240	212590	100	100
202324	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Age	Under 19	500	350	0.2	0.2
202324	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Age	19-24	17350	12480	6.4	5.9
202324	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Age	25-49	140590	108040	51.5	50.9
202324	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Age	50+	114640	91590	42	43.1

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Variables in this data set

Table showing all 5 variables

Variable name	Variable description
achievements	Achievements
achievements_percent	Achievements percentage
breakdown	Breakdown
participation	Participation
participation_percent	Participation percentage

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Footnotes

1. Age is based on age as at 31 August of the academic year.
2. Ethnic minorities do not include white minorities.
3. Ethnicity categories have been aligned with the ethnicities recorded in the 2011 UK Census.
4. Learner characteristics (such as sex, learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities and ethnicity) are based upon self-declaration by the learner.
5. Percentages are rounded to one decimal place and calculated on unrounded volumes. 'low' indicates a percentage below 0.5%. Where data shows 'x' this indicates data is unavailable, 'z' indicates data is not applicable, and 'c' indicates data is suppressed.
6. Total achievements are the count of learners that achieved at any point during the stated academic period. Learners achieving more than one course will appear only once in the grand total.
7. Total participation is the count of learners that participated at any point during the stated academic period. Learners undertaking more than one course will appear only once in the grand total.
8. Volumes are rounded to the nearest 10 and 'low' indicates a base value of fewer than 5. Where data shows 'x' this indicates data is unavailable, 'z' indicates data is not applicable, and 'c' indicates data is suppressed.
9. White comprises white British, Gypsy or Irish Traveller, Irish, and any other white background.
10. Figures for the academic year(s) shown cover the first three quarters (Aug to Apr) reported to date.

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