Academic year 2017/18

16-18 destination measures

Data guidance

Published 30 September 2020

Data files

All data files associated with this releases are listed below with guidance on their content. To download any of these files, please visit our data catalogue.

16 to 18 local authority level destinations

• Filename: 16_18_dm_ud_201718_la.csv
• Geographic levels: Local authority; Local authority district; Opportunity area; Parliamentary constituency; Regional
• Time period: 2010/11 to 2017/18

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
all_notsust	Not recorded as a sustained destination
all_unknown	Activity not captured
all_work	Sustained employment destination
appl2	Intermediate apprenticeships (level 2)
appl3	Advanced apprenticeships (level 3)
appl4	Higher and degree apprenticeships (level 4 and above)
appren	Sustained apprenticeships
characteristic	Student characteristic
cohort	Number of pupils completing 16-18 study
cohort_level	Qualification level
data_type	Data type
education	Sustained education destination
fe	Further education
fel1	FE entry level and no identified level
fel2	FE Level 2
fel3	FE Level 3
he	UK higher education institution
institution_group	Institution group
level_methodology	Level based on LEA area or provider location
other_edu	Other education destinations
overall	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment

16 to 18 national level destinations

• Filename: 16_18_dm_ud_201718_nat.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2010/11 to 2017/18

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
all_notsust	Not recorded as a sustained destination
all_unknown	Activity not captured
all_work	Sustained employment destination
appl2	Intermediate apprenticeships (level 2)
appl3	Advanced apprenticeships (level 3)
appl4	Higher and degree apprenticeships (level 4 and above)
appren	Sustained apprenticeships
characteristic	Student characteristics
cohort	Number of pupils completing 16-18 study
cohort_level	Qualification levels
data_type	Data type
edu_combo	Sustained education combination destination
education	Sustained education destination
fe	Further education
fel1	FE entry level and no identified level
fel2	FE Level 2
fel3	FE Level 3
he	UK higher education institution
ind	Independent schools
inst_count	Number of institutions
institution_type	Institution group
non_des	Non-designated provision
notsust	Education or employment not sustained
notsust_ben	Education or employment not sustained and known to be NEET
only_ben	No participation and known to be NEET
other_edu	Other education destinations
overall	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
sfc	Sixth form college
spec_prov	Specialist provision
ssf	School sixth form - state funded
unknown	Not identified in any data
unknown_id	Identified as DWP/HMRC customer

Footnotes

1. Special schools include all types of special schools due to the small numbers of schools.
2. Total state-funded mainstream schools and colleges covers all state-funded mainstream schools, academies, free schools, city technology colleges (CTCs), sixth-forma and other and FE sector colleges. Excludes alternative provision, special schools, other government department funded colleges and independent schools.
3. State-funded mainstream schools also includes city technology colleges (CTCs). Figures for this institution type are not shown separately in the table. Excludes pupil referral units (PRUs), alternative provision (AP), hospital schools, maintained and non-maintained special schools, independent schools, independent special schools and independent schools approved to take pupils with special educational needs (SEN).
4. Academies and free schools: there are now fewer local authority maintained schools and more academies and free schools than at the start of the 2016/17 academic year (when these school types are reported). In the case of some groups of school, such as University Technical Colleges (UTCs), this means the picture of the sector given in these statistics includes some of the first schools of this type to open and is based on a relatively small number of schools, many of which only had students joining for the last year of key stage 4 study.
5. State-funded mainstream colleges excludes other government department funded colleges.
6. All schools includes all local authority maintained mainstream schools, sponsored academies, converter academies, free schools, university technical colleges (UTCs), studio schools, special schools and independent schools. Also includes city technology colleges (CTCs). Alternative provision is not included.
7. Selective schools admit pupils wholly or mainly with reference to ability. These schools are formally designated as grammar schools. The schools status is based on admission policy in the secondary phase (i.e. age 11).
8. Local authority maintained includes community, voluntary aided, voluntary controlled and foundation schools.
9. Other are qualifications that are not included elsewhere in the 16-18 attainment performance tables
10. State-funded mainstream colleges includes sixth-form colleges and other further education colleges.
11. State-funded mainstream schools include local authority maintained schools, academies, free schools and city technology colleges.
12. Non-selective schools in highly-selective areas includes all non-selective schools in local authorities with a high level of selection (where 25% or more of state-funded secondary places are in state-funded selective schools). These local authorities are Bexley, Buckinghamshire, Kent, Lincolnshire, Medway, Poole, Slough, Southend-on-Sea, Sutton, Torbay, Trafford and Wirral. See technical note for further details.
13. Total for all schools and colleges includes all mainstream and special schools and colleges.
14. Other non-selective schools includes all non-selective schools that are not in highly selective areas, including those in areas with some selection.
15. Other FE sector colleges excludes other government department funded colleges.
16. All other education destinations include school sixth forms, sixth-form colleges, independent schools, specialist post-16 institutions, special schools and education combination destinations.
17. Independent schools: please note data for independent schools has much lower coverage than state-funded schools. This is likely to be due to difficulties linking their education records to employment data.
18. Please note data for independent schools has much lower coverage than state-funded schools. This is likely to be due to difficulties linking their education records to employment data.

Headline data 16-18

• Filename: 16_18_dm_headline_2018.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2017/18

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
characteristic	Student characteristics
cohort_level	Qualification levels
data_type	Data type
institution_type	Institution group
overall	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment after level 3 study