Data set from Graduate labour market statistics

Employment rates by graduate type

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Published 5 June 2025

Last updated 5 June 2025

Employment, high-skilled employment, inactivity and unemployment rates by graduate type (postgraduates, graduates and non-graduates) from 2007-2024.

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Data set details

• Theme: Higher education
• Publication: Graduate labour market statistics
• Release: Calendar year 2024
• Number of rows: 108
• Geographic levels: National
• Indicators:
  • Employment rate
  • High-skilled employment rate
  • Inactivity rate
• Filters:
  • Age band
  • Graduate type
• Time period: 2007 to 2024

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

age_group	time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	age_band	graduate_type	employment_rate	hs_employment_rate	unemployment_rate	inactivity_rate	employment_rate_accuracy	hs_employment_rate_accuracy	unemployment_rate_accuracy	inactivity_rate_accuracy	employment_rate_suppression	hs_employment_rate_suppression	unemployment_rate_suppression	inactivity_rate_suppression
16-64	2007	Calendar year	National	E92000001	England	16-64	Graduate	87.3	68.7	2.8	10.2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
16-64	2007	Calendar year	National	E92000001	England	16-64	Non-graduate	72.2	23.4	6.2	23.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
16-64	2007	Calendar year	National	E92000001	England	16-64	Postgraduate	89.1	81.3	2.6	8.5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
21-30	2007	Calendar year	National	E92000001	England	21-30	Graduate	86.9	60.1	4.1	9.4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
21-30	2007	Calendar year	National	E92000001	England	21-30	Non-graduate	72.6	20.0	7.8	21.2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 6 variables

Variable name	Variable description
age_band	Age band - Select the Age band you are interested in
employment_rate	Employment rate
graduate_type	Graduate type - Select the Graduate type you are interested in
hs_employment_rate	High-skilled employment rate
inactivity_rate	Inactivity rate

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Footnotes

1. The sum of the employment, unemployment, and inactivity rates do not equal 100% because of rounding and the rates are based on average (mean) figures over four different calendar quarters from the Labour Force Survey.
2. Labour Force Survey data are routinely reweighted in line with population estimates, further details are in the methodology.
3. The high-skilled and medium/low-skilled employment rates are derived from the 2020 ONS Standard Occupation Classifications code, for further information refer to the methodology.
4. This release is classified as ‘official statistics in development’ due to sampling variability from low response rates, impacting the data quality as some figures are calculated using small sample sizes, for more information refer to the methodology.
5. The economic inactivity rate measures the proportion of people (aged 16-64) that are not involved in the labour market – they are neither working or actively seeking employment. Economic inactivity includes students, early retirees and the long-term sick.

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