Data set from 16-18 destination measures

16-18 national level destinations

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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.

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Data set details

• Theme: Destination of pupils and students
• Publication: 16-18 destination measures
• Release: Academic year 2019/20
• Geographic levels: National
• Indicators:
  • Activity not captured
  • Advanced apprenticeships (level 3)
  • Education or employment not sustained
• Filters:
  • Data type
  • Institution group
  • Qualification levels
• Time period: 2010/11 to 2019/20

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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

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 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)

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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.

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