Ethnicity
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English-domiciled higher-level learners in England by ethnicity, academic years 2015/16 to 2023/24.
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Data set details
- Theme
- Higher education
- Publication
- Higher Level Learners in England
- Release
- Academic year 2023/24
- Release type
- Number of rows
- 3,796
- Geographic levels
- National
- Indicators
- Number of entrants
- Number of qualifiers
- Percentage of all enrolments by characteristic
- Filters
- Broad type of higher learning
- Ethnicity
- Level of study
- Time period
- 2015/16 to 2023/24
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| time_period | time_identifier | geographic_level | country_code | country_name | level | broad_type_of_higher_education | type_of_higher_education | ethnicity_major | number_of_entrants | number_of_enrolments | number_of_qualifiers | percentage_of_entrants_by_characteristic | percentage_of_all_enrolments_by_characteristic | percentage_of_qualifiers_by_characteristic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 201516 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Total | Total | Total | Total | 728140 | 1657835 | 502655 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| 201516 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Level 7 | Total | Total | Total | 158145 | 288385 | 115470 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| 201516 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Level 8 | Total | Total | Total | 11930 | 44385 | 10110 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| 201516 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Level 4 | Total | Total | Total | 65655 | 94725 | 44485 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| 201516 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Level 5 | Total | Total | Total | 87160 | 150410 | 55245 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| broad_type_of_higher_education | Broad type of higher learning |
| ethnicity_major | Ethnicity |
| level | Level of study |
| number_of_enrolments | Total number of enrolments |
| number_of_entrants | Number of entrants |
Footnotes
- See the publication Methodology for explanation of differences from other official statistics on apprenticeships and higher education.
- From 2022/23, HESA's definition of a first year or entrant differs from that used previously with a small impact on overall student numbers. Prior to 2022/23, first year students at HEPs were those with a start date between 1 August and 31 July. For 2022/23 and onwards, entrants are defined as those students with a start date between 18 July and 17 July, the following calendar year. When used in conjunction with the Standard Registration Population, this has a small impact on overall student numbers, but the revision brings it in line with the concept used in the derivation of the Standard Registration Population.
- From 2022/23, students in HEPs who are writing-up at the end of the year are now able to be included in HESA's figures if certain conditions are met. In previous years, students in HEPs who are writing-up were excluded entirely.
- The “Other higher level” category is lower bound estimate, combining “Other higher level - Unfunded” and "Other higher level - ESFA / Adv. Learner Loan". There is likely to be some unfunded-learning in FE providers that is not recorded as it is only mandatory for providers to record information in the ILR for their ESFA-funded learners. There may also be higher level learning in the private sector that is not recorded in administrative data held by government.
- Between 2021/22 and 2022/23, HESA reported a large increase in the amount of missing ethnicity data at English providers for students whose permanent address was in the UK. HESA used student level ethnicity data from the previous year to fill in ethnicity gaps for continuing students at providers in England and Wales. While the ethnicity reporting rate has been improved in the revised version of the 2022/23 HESA data used in this publication, the same imputation methodology has been applied to the data to ensure a more robust reporting rate. Caution is still advised when making comparisons across time. This has only been done where ethnicity information is missing or unknown for students within coverage, excluding where it has been returned as 'Prefer not to say', and where known information was submitted for the same enrolment in the previous year.
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