Support staff characteristics
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Headcount and Full time Equivalent of support staff by type of school and characteristics including post held, age group and ethnicity (additional ancillary file at school level).
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Data set details
- Theme
- Teachers and school workforce
- Publication
- School workforce in England
- Release
- Reporting year 2021
- Release type
- Geographic levels
- Local authority, National, Regional
- Indicators
- Full-time equivalent
- Full-time equivalent percent within gender post
- Headcount
- Filters
- Characteristic
- Type of school
- Time period
- 2011/12 to 2021/22
Data set preview
| time_period | time_identifier | geographic_level | country_code | country_name | region_code | region_name | old_la_code | new_la_code | la_name | school_type | characteristic_group | characteristic | post | gender | age_group | working_pattern | ethnicity_major | ethnicity_minor | ethnic_minority | full_time_equivalent | headcount | fte_percent_within_gender_post | headcount_percent_within_gender_post |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 202122 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Total state-funded schools | Post | Teaching assistants | Teaching assistants | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 275812.3666 | 390925.0951 | 100 | 100 | |||||
| 202122 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | State-funded nursery and primary | Post | Teaching assistants | Teaching assistants | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 181521.818 | 274294.2933 | 100 | 100 | |||||
| 202122 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | LA maintained nursery and primary | Post | Teaching assistants | Teaching assistants | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 110782.2241 | 168777.8282 | 100 | 100 | |||||
| 202122 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | LA maintained nursery | Post | Teaching assistants | Teaching assistants | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 1912.2525 | 2669.5 | 100 | 100 | |||||
| 202122 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | LA maintained primary | Post | Teaching assistants | Teaching assistants | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 108869.9716 | 166108.3282 | 100 | 100 |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| characteristic | Characteristic |
| fte_percent_within_gender_post | Full-time equivalent percent within gender post |
| full_time_equivalent | Full-time equivalent |
| headcount | Headcount |
| headcount_percent_within_gender_post | Headcount percent within gender post |
Footnotes
- Gender unclassified numbers in 2021 are higher than previously seen. This is as a result of a known data quality issue in a small number of census returns. For more information, please see the methodology for this release.
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