Ethnicity
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English-domiciled higher-level learners in England by ethnicity.
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Data set details
- Theme
- Higher education
- Publication
- Higher Level Learners in England
- Release
- Academic year 2024/25
- Release type
- Number of rows
- 255,327
- Geographic levels
- National, Regional
- Indicators
- Number of entrants
- Number of qualifiers
- Percentage of all enrolments by characteristic
- Filters
- Broad type of higher learning
- Detailed type of higher learning
- Ethnicity
- Time period
- 2015/16 to 2024/25
Data set preview
| time_period | time_identifier | geographic_level | country_code | country_name | region_code | region_name | level | broad_type_of_learning | detailed_type_of_learning | ethnicity_major | ethnicity_minor | 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 | Level 4 | Apprenticeship | Apprenticeship | Asian | Asian or Asian British - Bangladeshi | 65 | 120 | 15 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.6 | ||
| 201516 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Level 4 | Apprenticeship | Apprenticeship | Asian | Asian or Asian British - Chinese | 20 | 35 | 5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | ||
| 201516 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Level 4 | Apprenticeship | Apprenticeship | Asian | Asian or Asian British - Indian | 195 | 375 | 55 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 2.4 | ||
| 201516 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Level 4 | Apprenticeship | Apprenticeship | Asian | Asian or Asian British - Pakistani | 125 | 235 | 30 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.2 | ||
| 201516 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Level 4 | Apprenticeship | Apprenticeship | Asian | Other Asian background | 65 | 115 | 15 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| broad_type_of_learning | Broad type of higher learning |
| detailed_type_of_learning | Detailed type of higher learning |
| ethnicity_major | Ethnicity |
| ethnicity_minor | Ethnicity detailed |
| level | Level of study |
Footnotes
- See the publication Methodology for explanation of differences from other official statistics on apprenticeships and higher education.
- The “Other higher level - Unfunded” category is a lower bound estimate. 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 government-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 improved in the revised version of the 2022/23 HESA data used in subsequent publications from 2023/24 onwards, 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.
- Since 2022/23, HESA have reported a larger amount of missing permanent address information at a number of providers. Some of the missing data relates to continuing students for whom it was not possible to retrieve the information from the legacy submissions. Other missing data may be attributed to missing entry information.
- Geographies are taken from the National Statistics Postcode Lookup based on boundaries as of February 2024.
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HE Participation and Provider Statistics Team
Email: he.statistics@education.gov.ukContact name: Louis Erritt