Data set from Further education and skills

Essential Skills Geography – region, LAD, PCON and EDA

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Essential skills enrolments, participation and achievements by level, subject, age, aim regulation status and national, regional, local authority district, parliamentary constituency and English devolved area geographical breakdowns.

Data set details

Theme
Further education
Publication
Further education and skills
Release type
Number of rows
194,850
Geographic levels
English devolved area, Local authority district, National, Parliamentary constituency, Regional
Indicators
  • Enrolments
  • Participation
  • Learner achievements
Filters
  • Age youth/adult
  • Essential skills level
  • Essential skills subject
Time period
2025/26

Data set preview

Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data
time_periodtime_identifiergeographic_levelcountry_codecountry_nameregion_coderegion_namelad_codelad_nameenglish_devolved_area_codeenglish_devolved_area_namepcon_codepcon_nameregulated_statussubject_essential_skillslevel_essential_skillsage_youth_adultenrolmentsparticipationlearner_achievements
202526Academic yearNationalE92000001EnglandTotalTotalTotalTotal41566029096032060
202526Academic yearNationalE92000001EnglandTotalTotalTotal19+38955027214031040
202526Academic yearNationalE92000001EnglandTotalTotalTotalUnder 1926110188201020
202526Academic yearNationalE92000001EnglandTotalTotalPre-entry LevelTotal28490244904250
202526Academic yearNationalE92000001EnglandTotalTotalPre-entry Level19+28490244904250

Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 7 variables
Variable nameVariable description
age_youth_adultAge youth/adult
enrolmentsEnrolments
learner_achievementsLearner achievements
level_essential_skillsEssential skills level
participationParticipation

Footnotes

  1. Age is based on age as at 31 August of the academic year.
  2. Geographies are taken from the National Statistics Postcode Lookup.
  3. Geography is based upon the home postcode of the learner. Where the postcode is outside of an English devolved area or not known it is included in the 'Outside of an English Devolved Area and unknown' category.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Entry Level figures include pre-entry level essential skills aims.

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