Qualification pathways for high earning employees
This is the underlying data used to create this interactive pathways visualisation in the career pathways dashboard. The pathways visualisation provides a summary of common qualification pathways followed by top earning employees of each industry sector and in each region.
Top earning employees are those who are in the top third of earners in their region and sector.
Qualification pathways are constructed from regulated qualifications achieved by employees in post-16 education at level 2 and above. Basic skills qualifications, unregulated provision and qualifications achieved at school, such as GCSEs, are excluded. AS Levels and smaller qualifications that are taken alongside A Levels or larger level 2 and 3 qualifications as also excluded.
This file is designed to provide access to the underlying data for this publication rather than for use with the table creator tool.
pct_employees is the proportion of employees for a given qualification who went on to achieve the subsequent qualification.
qual_rank is the ranking of the starting qualification by number of employees, within the region, sector and starting level,
dest_rank is the ranking of the subsequent qualification by number of employees, within the region, sector and starting level.
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Data set details
- Theme
- Further education
- Publication
- Career pathways: post-16 qualifications held by employees
- Release
- Tax year 2018-19
- Release type
- Geographic levels
- National, Regional
- Indicators
- Level of subsequent qualification
- Number of employees
- Proportion of employees by subsequent qualification
- Filters
- destination ranking by number of employees
- Highest qualification level
- Industry sector
- Time period
- 2018-19
Data set preview
| time_period | time_identifier | geographic_level | country_code | country_name | region_name | region_code | sector | level_group | subject | qual_title | next_qual_title | next_level_group | next_subject | qual_rank | dest_rank | employees | pct_employees |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 201819 | Tax year | Regional | E92000001 | England | East Midlands | E12000004 | Accommodation & food | Level 2 | Retail and Commercial Enterprise | Hospitality and Catering Apprenticeship | Did not progress to a higher level qualification | Did not progress to a higher level qualification | Did not progress to a higher level qualification | 1 | 1 | 260 | 57 |
| 201819 | Tax year | Regional | E92000001 | England | East Midlands | E12000004 | Accommodation & food | Level 2 | Retail and Commercial Enterprise | Hospitality and Catering Apprenticeship | Hospitality and Catering Apprenticeship | Level 3 | Retail and Commercial Enterprise | 1 | 2 | 50 | 10.9 |
| 201819 | Tax year | Regional | E92000001 | England | East Midlands | E12000004 | Accommodation & food | Level 2 | Retail and Commercial Enterprise | Hospitality and Catering Apprenticeship | Hospitality Apprenticeship | Level 3 | Retail and Commercial Enterprise | 1 | 3 | 40 | 7.9 |
| 201819 | Tax year | Regional | E92000001 | England | East Midlands | E12000004 | Accommodation & food | Level 2 | Retail and Commercial Enterprise | Hospitality and Catering Apprenticeship | Award in Supervising Food Safety in Catering | Level 3 | Retail and Commercial Enterprise | 1 | 4 | 30 | 5.7 |
| 201819 | Tax year | Regional | E92000001 | England | East Midlands | E12000004 | Accommodation & food | Level 2 | Retail and Commercial Enterprise | Hospitality and Catering Apprenticeship | Diploma in Shift Management | Level 3 | Retail and Commercial Enterprise | 1 | 5 | 30 | 5.7 |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| dest_rank | destination ranking by number of employees - Filter by destination rank |
| employees | Number of employees |
| level_group | Highest qualification level - Filter by highest qualification level |
| next_level_group | Level of subsequent qualification |
| next_qual_title | Subsequent qualification title |
Footnotes
- Data are restricted to employees born between September 1988 and August 1993. These employees turned age 25-30 in the 2018-19 tax year.
- Excludes qualifications at below level 2 and qualifications achieved prior to post-16 education (e.g. GCSEs).
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