Data set from 16-19 destination measures

16-18 national level destinations

Not the latest data

Published 21 October 2021

Last updated 21 October 2021

National level destinations data for students leaving 16 to 18 study for different characteristic groups, provider types, and qualification levels.

---

On this page

Data set details

• Theme: Destination of pupils and students
• Publication: 16-19 destination measures
• Release: Academic year 2019/20
• Number of rows: 11,959
• Geographic levels: National
• Indicators:
  • Activity not captured
  • Advanced apprenticeships (level 3)
  • Education or employment not sustained
  • Education or employment not sustained and known to be NEET
  • FE Level 2
  • FE Level 3
  • FE entry level and no identified level
  • Further education
  • Higher and degree apprenticeships (level 4 and above)
  • Identified as DWP/HMRC customer
  • Independent schools
  • Intermediate apprenticeships (level 2)
  • No participation and known to be NEET
  • Non-designated provision
  • Not identified in any data
  • Not recorded as a sustained destination
  • Number of institutions
  • Number of pupils completing 16-18 study
  • Other education destinations
  • School sixth form - state funded
  • Sixth form college
  • Specialist provision
  • Sustained apprenticeships
  • Sustained education combination destination
  • Sustained education destination
  • Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
  • Sustained employment destination
  • UK higher education institution
• Filters:
  • Data type
  • Institution group
  • Qualification levels
  • Student characteristics
• Time period: 2010/11 to 2019/20

---

Data set preview

Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	institution_group	institution_type	cohort_level_group	cohort_level	characteristic_group	characteristic	data_type	version	inst_count	cohort	overall	education	he	fe	fel3	fel2	fel1	other_edu	ind	non_des	ssf	sfc	spec_prov	edu_combo	appren	appl4	appl3	appl2	all_work	all_notsust	notsust	notsust_ben	only_ben	all_unknown	unknown_id	unknown
201415	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	State-funded mainstream schools	Total	Level 3	Level 3 approved	Ethnicity Major	Mixed Dual background	Number of pupils	Revised	z	6994	6176	4921	4278	413	z	z	z	230	21	0	202	6	0	1	226	13	98	115	1029	519	341	135	43	299	260	39
201415	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	State-funded mainstream schools	Total	Level 3	Level 3 approved	Ethnicity Major	Black or Black British	Number of pupils	Revised	z	9334	8420	7430	6580	512	z	z	z	341	19	0	290	25	3	4	205	6	102	97	785	568	330	176	62	346	263	83
201213	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	State-funded mainstream schools	Total	Level 3	Level 3 approved	Ethnicity Major	Unclassified	Number of pupils	Revised	z	1504	1340	1023	899	79	z	z	z	45	4	0	39	2	0	0	59	1	14	44	258	112	55	42	15	52	39	13
201011	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	State-funded mainstream schools	Total	Level 3	Level 3 approved	Ethnicity Minor	White British	Number of pupils	Revised	z	125565	112891	81000	67369	8983	z	z	z	4654	0	0	4515	105	0	34	4155	49	1585	2521	27736	10212	4386	4414	1412	2462	2025	437
201415	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	State-funded mainstream schools	Total	Level 3	Level 3 approved	Ethnicity Minor	Traveller of Irish Heritage	Number of pupils	Revised	z	9	8	7	6	1	z	z	z	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0

---

Variables in this data set

Table showing all 32 variables

Variable name	Variable description
all_notsust	Not recorded as a sustained destination
all_unknown	Activity not captured
all_work	Sustained employment destination
appl2	Intermediate apprenticeships (level 2)
appl3	Advanced apprenticeships (level 3)
appl4	Higher and degree apprenticeships (level 4 and above)
appren	Sustained apprenticeships
characteristic	Student characteristics
cohort	Number of pupils completing 16-18 study
cohort_level	Qualification levels
data_type	Data type
edu_combo	Sustained education combination destination
education	Sustained education destination
fe	Further education
fel1	FE entry level and no identified level
fel2	FE Level 2
fel3	FE Level 3
he	UK higher education institution
ind	Independent schools
inst_count	Number of institutions
institution_type	Institution group
non_des	Non-designated provision
notsust	Education or employment not sustained
notsust_ben	Education or employment not sustained and known to be NEET
only_ben	No participation and known to be NEET
other_edu	Other education destinations
overall	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
sfc	Sixth form college
spec_prov	Specialist provision
ssf	School sixth form - state funded
unknown	Not identified in any data
unknown_id	Identified as DWP/HMRC customer

---

Footnotes

1. State-funded mainstream colleges excludes other government department funded colleges.
2. Selective schools admit pupils wholly or mainly with reference to ability. These schools are formally designated as grammar schools. The schools status is based on admission policy in the secondary phase (i.e. age 11).
3. State-funded mainstream schools also includes city technology colleges (CTCs). Figures for this institution type are not shown separately in the table. Excludes pupil referral units (PRUs), alternative provision (AP), hospital schools, maintained and non-maintained special schools, independent schools, independent special schools and independent schools approved to take pupils with special educational needs (SEN).
4. Other FE sector colleges excludes other government department funded colleges.
5. Other are qualifications that are not included elsewhere in the 16-18 attainment performance tables
6. Total for all schools and colleges includes all mainstream and special schools and colleges.
7. Recent reforms to technical and applied qualifications mean that the makeup of level 3 and level 2 approved qualification groups differ significantly between destination years 2017/18, 2018/19 and 2019/20. Comparisons across years and approved/other qualification groups should therefore be made with particular caution.
8. All schools includes all local authority maintained mainstream schools, sponsored academies, converter academies, free schools, university technical colleges (UTCs), studio schools, special schools and independent schools. Also includes city technology colleges (CTCs). Alternative provision is not included.
9. Total state-funded mainstream schools and colleges covers all state-funded mainstream schools, academies, free schools, city technology colleges (CTCs), sixth-forms and other and FE sector colleges. Excludes alternative provision, special schools, other government department funded colleges and independent schools.
10. Other non-selective schools includes all non-selective schools that are not in highly selective areas, including those in areas with some selection.
11. Please note data for independent schools has much lower coverage than state-funded schools. This is likely to be due to difficulties linking their education records to employment data.
12. State-funded mainstream schools include local authority maintained schools, academies, free schools and city technology colleges.
13. Non-selective schools in highly-selective areas includes all non-selective schools in local authorities with a high level of selection (where 25% or more of state-funded secondary places are in state-funded selective schools). These local authorities are Bexley, Buckinghamshire, Kent, Lincolnshire, Medway, Poole, Slough, Southend-on-Sea, Sutton, Torbay, Trafford and Wirral. See technical note for further details.
14. All other education destinations include school sixth forms, sixth-form colleges, independent schools, specialist post-16 institutions, special schools and education combination destinations.
15. Independent schools: please note data for independent schools has much lower coverage than state-funded schools. This is likely to be due to difficulties linking their education records to employment data.
16. Special schools group include all types of special schools due to the small numbers of schools.
17. Local authority maintained includes community, voluntary aided, voluntary controlled and foundation schools.
18. State-funded mainstream colleges includes sixth-form colleges and other further education colleges.

---

Using this data

• Download the underlying data as a compressed ZIP file

• View or create your own tables

  View tables that we have built for you, or create your own tables from open data using our table tool

Download this data using code

Access this data using common programming languages using the URL below.

Example code

Python

import pandas as pd

pd.read_csv("https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-catalogue/data-set/8c433c02-5380-4b96-8e1d-da33e9d27ccc/csv")

R

read.csv("https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-catalogue/data-set/8c433c02-5380-4b96-8e1d-da33e9d27ccc/csv")

---

Contact us

If you have a specific enquiry about 16-18 national level destinations statistics and data:

Destination measures

Email: Destination.MEASURES@education.gov.uk
Contact name: Daniel Brown

---