Data set from Further education and skills

Essential skills by geography – region, LAD, PCON and EDA

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Essential skills enrolments, participation and achievements by level, subject, aim regulation status, learner age and national, regional, local authority district, parliamentary constituency and English devolved area geographical breakdowns.

Data set details

Theme
Further education
Publication
Further education and skills
Release type
Number of rows
194,850
Geographic levels
English devolved area, Local authority district, National, Parliamentary constituency, Regional
Indicators
  • Enrolments
  • Learner achievements
  • Participation
Filters
  • Age youth/adult
  • Essential skills level
  • Essential skills subject
Time period
2025/26

Data set preview

Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data
time_periodtime_identifiergeographic_levelcountry_codecountry_nameregion_coderegion_namelad_codelad_nameenglish_devolved_area_codeenglish_devolved_area_namepcon_codepcon_nameregulated_statussubject_essential_skillslevel_essential_skillsage_youth_adultenrolmentsparticipationlearner_achievements
202526Academic yearNationalE92000001EnglandTotalTotalTotalTotal57016034011093760
202526Academic yearNationalE92000001EnglandTotalTotalTotal19+53662031620091430
202526Academic yearNationalE92000001EnglandTotalTotalTotalUnder 1933540239102330
202526Academic yearNationalE92000001EnglandTotalTotalPre-entry LevelTotal461603270014570
202526Academic yearNationalE92000001EnglandTotalTotalPre-entry Level19+461603270014570

Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 7 variables
Variable nameVariable description
age_youth_adultAge youth/adult
enrolmentsEnrolments
learner_achievementsLearner achievements
level_essential_skillsEssential skills level
participationParticipation

Footnotes

  1. Age is based on age as at 31 August of the academic year.
  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 and 'low' indicates a base value of fewer than 5. Where data shows 'x' this indicates data is unavailable, 'z' indicates data is not applicable, and 'c' indicates data is suppressed.

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