Data set from Further education and skills

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Published 28 January 2021

Last updated 28 January 2021

Adult (19+) learner participation and achievements

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

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Data set details

• Theme: Further education
• Publication: Further education and skills
• Release: Academic year 2020/21
• Geographic levels: National
• Indicators:
  • Achievement Basic skills (Aug-Jul)
  • Achievement Below Level 2 (excluding Basic skills) (Aug-Jul)
  • Achievement Full Level 2 (Aug-Jul)
• 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	p_total	p_below_level_2_excl_basic_skills	p_basic_skills	p_full_level_2	p_full_level_3	p_level_2	p_level_3	p_level_4plus	p_no_level_assigned	a_total	a_below_level_2_excl_basic_skills	a_basic_skills	a_full_level_2	a_full_level_3	a_level_2	a_level_3	a_level_4plus	a_no_level_assigned
201516	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	2324700	465500	803800	660500	446900	859600	465300	58300	563600	1694500	415700	456100	348800	178600	502100	190900	14100	500200
201617	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	2236800	426200	755300	433600	460100	817900	475100	73800	525500	1578900	382800	421500	184200	182600	480100	190800	15900	446200
201718	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	2179100	439200	664200	319900	425200	773800	445500	96400	494400	1574400	393500	418500	158700	171700	507600	182400	21100	420400
201819	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	2068200	394500	573500	217800	356500	695600	422400	133100	480900	1467600	360000	363800	89300	121500	474000	156700	19800	412100
201920	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	1745800	271700	479300	180600	339400	579000	400400	174100	349800	1149600	237700	294300	64700	105200	367900	133300	23000	316300

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 18 variables

Variable name	Variable description
a_basic_skills	Achievement Basic skills (Aug-Jul)
a_below_level_2_excl_basic_skills	Achievement Below Level 2 (excluding Basic skills) (Aug-Jul)
a_full_level_2	Achievement Full Level 2 (Aug-Jul)
a_full_level_3	Achievement Full Level 3 (Aug-Jul)
a_level_2	Achievement Level 2 (Aug-Jul)

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Footnotes

1. For 2017/18, there were approximately 2,400 learners undertaking community learning missing from the final data return (R14) due to a submission error for three providers. 2017/18 figures reported here does not include these learners
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. Age is based on age as at 31 August of the academic year
4. 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
5. Total achievements are the count of learners that achieved at any point during the stated academic period. Learners achieving more than one course will appear only once in the grand total
6. This release does not now include offender learners for 2019/20 onwards as this data is being collected by the Ministry of Justice. In previous releases we included offender learning in our data where relevant, which accounted for around 78,000 learners aged 18+ in 2017/18 and around 57,600 learners aged 18+ in 2018/19
7. Volumes are rounded to the nearest 100. If shown, '~' indicates a base value of between 1 and 49, whilst 0 indicates a true zero

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