Students sustaining an education, apprenticeship or employment destination after 16-18 study in England. Includes disadvantage, ethnicity and other breakdowns.
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Featured tables are pre-prepared tables created from a statistical release's data sets. They provide statistics that are regularly requested by some users (such as local councils, regional government or government policy teams) and can be adapted to switch between different categories (such as different geographies, time periods or characteristics where available).
Data sets present comprehensive open data from which users can create their own tables using the EES table tool or download a zipped CSV file.
National
National level destinations data for students leaving 16 to 18 study for different characteristic groups, provider types, and qualification levels.
Local authority, Local authority district, Opportunity area, Parliamentary constituency, Regional
Local authority level destinations data for students leaving 16 to 18 study for different characteristic groups, provider types, and qualification levels.
National
National level destinations headline data for students leaving 16 to 18 study for different characteristic groups, provider types, and qualification levels.
Supporting files provide an area for teams to supply non-standard files for download by users where required.
Description of the data sets included in this release, including information on data sources, coverage, quality and any data conventions used.
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 (opens in new tab) and is intended to meet at least 3 stars for Open Data (opens in new tab).
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.
This release provides information on destinations from:
This information is based on data from the National Pupil Database and the Longitudinal Education Outcomes dataset.
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
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.
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