Data set from School workforce in England

Teacher retention

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Published 17 June 2021

Last updated 17 June 2021

Full and part-time teachers by year of gaining qualified teacher status, who were in service the following year and the percentage recorded in service in state funded schools in England in each year after.

Data set details

Theme: Teachers and school workforce
Publication: School workforce in England
Release: Reporting year 2020
Release type
Geographic levels: National
Indicators: Percentage of teachers still in service 1 year after qualifying
Percentage of teachers still in service 10 years after qualifying
Percentage of teachers still in service 11 years after qualifying
Filters: Year teacher qualified
Time period: 2020 November

Data set preview

Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data
time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	year_qualified	one_yr_after_qualifying_percentage_in_service	two_yrs_after_qualifying_percentage_in_service	three_yrs_after_qualifying_percentage_in_service	four_yrs_after_qualifying_percentage_in_service	five_yrs_after_qualifying_percentage_in_service	six_yrs_after_qualifying_percentage_in_service	seven_yrs_after_qualifying_percentage_in_service	eight_yrs_after_qualifying_percentage_in_service	nine_yrs_after_qualifying_percentage_in_service	ten_yrs_after_qualifying_percentage_in_service	eleven_yrs_after_qualifying_percentage_in_service	twelve_yrs_after_qualifying_percentage_in_service	thirteen_yrs_after_qualifying_percentage_in_service	fourteen_yrs_after_qualifying_percentage_in_service	fifteen_yrs_after_qualifying_percentage_in_service	sixteen_yrs_after_qualifying_percentage_in_service	seventeen_yrs_after_qualifying_percentage_in_service	eighteen_yrs_after_qualifying_percentage_in_service	nineteen_yrs_after_qualifying_percentage_in_service	twenty_yrs_after_qualifying_percentage_in_service	twentyone_yrs_after_qualifying_percentage_in_service	twentytwo_yrs_after_qualifying_percentage_in_service	twentythree_yrs_after_qualifying_percentage_in_service	twentyfour_yrs_after_qualifying_percentage_in_service
2020	November	National	E92000001	England	1996	91.0468	84.4202	78.6062	72.9468	70.5869	68.111	66.5469	64.0267	62.4074	59.622	58.2514	57.4058	55.7091	57.7153	56.8034	55.8915	54.7861	53.7084	51.8072	49.9668	47.7672	45.8384	44.2633	43.2353
2020	November	National	E92000001	England	1997	90.1274	83.3906	76.9076	73.6926	71.0803	68.7431	66.6332	64.6555	61.837	60.3564	59.2036	57.649	58.9815	58.1196	57.337	56.2583	54.7776	52.8687	50.9915	49.0931	47.2371	45.4497	44.3128	:
2020	November	National	E92000001	England	1998	89.3597	81.1445	76.9469	74.1729	72.0234	69.3957	67.4769	64.4272	62.9698	61.7657	60.1621	61.8501	60.6853	59.6556	58.2321	56.5496	54.7209	52.6671	50.4164	48.5652	47.074	45.9318	:	:
2020	November	National	E92000001	England	1999	88.3998	81.5022	77.1719	74.4019	71.1337	69.8692	66.6174	64.997	63.6558	61.6631	63.3273	61.7616	60.623	59.4405	57.946	56.145	54.2289	52.291	50.49	48.8969	47.5721	:	:	:
2020	November	National	E92000001	England	2000	89.0964	82.7877	77.6462	74.3039	71.941	68.7183	66.7084	65.638	63.6053	64.8636	63.3776	62.5349	60.7869	59.1869	57.0745	55.2468	53.3963	51.8362	50.0655	48.8015	:	:	:	:

Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 25 variables
Variable name	Variable description
eight_yrs_after_qualifying_percentage_in_service	Percentage of teachers still in service 8 years after qualifying
eighteen_yrs_after_qualifying_percentage_in_service	Percentage of teachers still in service 18 years after qualifying
eleven_yrs_after_qualifying_percentage_in_service	Percentage of teachers still in service 11 years after qualifying
fifteen_yrs_after_qualifying_percentage_in_service	Percentage of teachers still in service 15 years after qualifying
five_yrs_after_qualifying_percentage_in_service	Percentage of teachers still in service 5 years after qualifying

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