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Academic year 2018/19
16-18 destination measures
Data guidance
Published
Description
This document describes the data included in the ‘16-18 destination measures: 2018/19’ National Statistics release’s underlying data files. This data is released under the terms of the Open Government License and is intended to meet at least 3 stars for Open Data.
The publication methodology, available on the publication report, should be referenced alongside this data. It provides information on the data sources, their coverage and quality as well as explaining methodology used in producing the data.
Coverage
This release provides information on destinations from:
state-funded mainstream schools and colleges
state-funded special schools (including non-maintained special schools)
independent schools
This information is based on data from the National Pupil Database and the Longitudinal Education Outcomes dataset.
File formats and conventions
Rounding and suppression
The Code of Practice for Statistics requires us to take reasonable steps to ensure that our published or disseminated statistics protect confidentiality. Where appropriate we apply disclosure control to protect confidentiality.
The following symbols have been used in this publication:
( 0 ) zero
( c ) small number suppressed to preserve confidentiality or for accountability reasons
( z ) not applicable
( ~ ) positive % less than 0.5
Small cohorts
At institutional level, where cohorts are less than 6, all data are suppressed. This is to ensure that schools are not held to account for small cohorts of pupils rather than for confidentiality reasons.
This does not apply to levels of data other than institutional level.
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_201819_la_rev.csv
Geographic levels
Local authority; Local authority district; Opportunity area; Parliamentary constituency; Regional
Time period
2010/11 to 2018/19
Content
Local authority level destinations data for students leaving 16 to 18 study for different characteristic groups, provider types, and qualification levels.
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)
National level destinations data for students leaving 16 to 18 study for different characteristic groups, provider types, and qualification levels.
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
State-funded mainstream colleges includes sixth-form colleges and other further education colleges.
Other non-selective schools includes all non-selective schools that are not in highly selective areas, including those in areas with some selection.
State-funded mainstream schools include local authority maintained schools, academies, free schools and city technology colleges.
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).
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.
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).
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.
Other FE sector colleges excludes other government department funded colleges.
All other education destinations include school sixth forms, sixth-form colleges, independent schools, specialist post-16 institutions, special schools and education combination destinations.
Other are qualifications that are not included elsewhere in the 16-18 attainment performance tables
State-funded mainstream colleges excludes other government department funded colleges.
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.
Total for all schools and colleges includes all mainstream and special schools and colleges.
Recent reforms to technical and applied qualifications mean that the makeup of level 3 and level 2 approved qualification groups differ significantly between destination years 2017/18 and 2018/19. Comparisons between years and approved/other qualification groups should therefore be made with particular caution.
Total state-funded mainstream schools and colleges covers all state-funded mainstream schools, academies, free schools, city technology colleges (CTCs), sixth-forms and other and FE sector colleges. Excludes alternative provision, special schools, other government department funded colleges and independent schools.
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.
Local authority maintained includes community, voluntary aided, voluntary controlled and foundation schools.
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.
Special schools include all types of special schools due to the small numbers of schools.
National level destinations headline data for students leaving 16 to 18 study for different characteristic groups, provider types, and qualification levels.
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
cohort
Number of pupils completing 16-18 study
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_group
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
All other education destinations include school sixth forms, sixth-form colleges, independent schools, specialist post-16 institutions, special schools and education combination destinations.