Data set from Further education and skills

Further education and skills learners - deprivation

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Published 28 January 2021

Last updated 28 January 2021

Further education and skills learner participation by indices of multiple deprivation breakdown. Breakdowns for adult (19+) Education and training can also be obtained. The under 19 Further education and skills provision corresponds to apprenticeships.

Academic year: 2015/16 to 2020/21

Indicators:  Total Participation, Participation Below Level 2 (excluding Basic skills), Participation Basic skills, Participation Full Level 2, Participation Full Level 3, Participation Level 2, Participation Level 3, Participation Level 4+,  Participation No Level Assigned

Filters: Learner home deprivation quintile, Age group (with unknowns), Age group (under 19/19+), Provision type

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Data set details

• Theme: Further education
• Publication: Further education and skills
• Release: Academic year 2020/21
• Geographic levels: National
• Indicators:
  • Participation Basic skills
  • Participation Below Level 2 (excluding Basic skills)
  • Participation Full Level 2
• Filters:
  • Age (Under 19/19+)
  • Age group (with unknowns)
  • Learner Deprivation
• Time period: 2015/16 to 2020/21

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	provision_type	age_youth_adult	age_summary_with_unknowns	learner_home_depriv	p_total	p_bl2_ex_basic_skills	p_basic_skills	p_full_l2	p_full_l3	p_l2	p_l3	p_l4plus	p_no_lx
201516	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Further Education and Skills	Adult	19-24	Five (least deprived)	77640	6860	22480	28640	34950	33440	35560	3650	6610
201516	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Further Education and Skills	Adult	19-24	Four	97020	10840	30880	39140	39230	45660	39850	3420	7830
201516	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Further Education and Skills	Adult	19-24	One (most deprived)	179360	43960	73510	63020	48230	84520	49110	2700	23210
201516	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Further Education and Skills	Adult	19-24	Three	107960	15890	38280	42200	39870	51180	40600	3140	10050
201516	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Further Education and Skills	Adult	19-24	Total	602640	104070	219850	225040	208350	280720	212040	16180	62570

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 13 variables

Variable name	Variable description
age_summary_with_unknowns	Age group (with unknowns)
age_youth_adult	Age (Under 19/19+)
learner_home_depriv	Learner Deprivation
p_basic_skills	Participation Basic skills
p_bl2_ex_basic_skills	Participation Below Level 2 (excluding Basic skills)

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Footnotes

1. Education and Training includes Traineeships
2. Total participation is the count of learners that participated at any point during the stated academic period. Learners undertaking more than one course will appear only once in the grand total
3. Volumes are rounded to the nearest 10. If shown, '~' indicates a base value of between 1 and 4, whilst 0 indicates a true zero
4. Basic skills total excludes Essential Digital Skills qualifications, unless otherwise specified
5. Unknown IMD Quintile refers to a learner with a postcode that does not match to lower super output area
6. Age is based on age as at 31 August of the academic year
7. Geography is based upon the home postcode of the learner. Where the postcode is outside of England, learners are included in the 'Other' category. Where postcode is not known this is also included in the 'Other' category
8. From 2016/17, some learners who would have previously been included in full level 2 and full level 3, have been reclassified. Please see the methodology document for further information
9. Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) Quintiles from 2014/15 to 2018/19 are based on the 2015 IMD rank of the learner's home postcode. IMD quintiles from 2019/20 onwards are based on the 2019 IMD rank of the learner's home postcode

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