Data set from Further education and skills

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Published 27 January 2022

Last updated 27 January 2022

Adult (19+) learner participation and achievements

Academic years: 2015/16 to 2021/22 full academic years

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 2021/22
• Geographic levels: National
• Indicators:
  • Achievements Basic skills (Aug to Jul)
  • Achievements Below level 2 (excluding basic skills) (Aug to Jul)
  • Achievements Full level 2 (Aug to Jul)
• Time period: 2016/17 to 2021/22

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_name	country_code	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
201617	Academic year	National	England	E92000001	2236800	426200	755300	433600	460100	817900	475100	73800	525500	1578900	382800	421500	184200	182600	480100	190800	15900	446200
201718	Academic year	National	England	E92000001	2179100	439200	664200	319900	425200	773800	445500	96400	494400	1574400	393500	418500	158700	171700	507600	182400	21100	420400
201819	Academic year	National	England	E92000001	2068200	394500	573500	217800	356500	695600	422400	133100	480900	1467600	360000	363800	89300	121500	474000	156700	19800	412100
201920	Academic year	National	England	E92000001	1745800	271700	479300	180600	339400	579000	400400	174100	349800	1149600	237700	294300	64700	105200	367900	133300	23000	316300
202021	Academic year	National	England	E92000001	1640300	260900	413000	153200	331700	585200	393800	217500	250700	1040800	228700	234300	57400	103100	390100	135900	32700	229000

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 18 variables

Variable name	Variable description
a_basic_skills	Achievements Basic skills (Aug to Jul)
a_below_level_2_excl_basic_skills	Achievements Below level 2 (excluding basic skills) (Aug to Jul)
a_full_level_2	Achievements Full level 2 (Aug to Jul)
a_full_level_3	Achievements Full level 3 (Aug to Jul)
a_level_2	Achievements Level 2 (Aug to Jul)

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Footnotes

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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 do not include these learners.
4. Basic skills total excludes Essential Digital Skills qualifications, unless otherwise specified.
5. Age is based on age as at 31 August of the academic year.
6. 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.
7. Volumes are rounded to the nearest 100 and 'low' indicates a base value of fewer than 50. Where data shows 'x' this indicates data is unavailable, 'z' indicates data is not applicable, and 'c' indicates data is suppressed.
8. 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.

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