Reporting year 2022

Education and training statistics for the UK

Data guidance

Published 17 November 2022

Description

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Coverage

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File formats and conventions

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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.

School numbers

• Filename: uk_schools.csv
• Geographic levels: National; Regional
• Time period: 2015/16 to 2021/22
• Content:

  Number of schools in the United Kingdom by school phase.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
phase	School type
t_schools	Number of schools

Footnotes

1. In Northern Ireland, total figures include hospital schools.
2. Primary and secondary figures include middle schools as deemed. Secondary schools include all-through schools.
3. Figures for independent schools in Scotland are unavailable.
4. In Scotland, nursery figures include all providers of funded Early Learning and Childcare, except childminders.
5. In England, special schools include pupil referral units.
6. Figures for independent schools in Wales are unavailable for 2019/20.

Pupils numbers

• Filename: uk_pupils.csv
• Geographic levels: National; Regional
• Time period: 2015/16 to 2021/22
• Content:

  Number of pupils in the United Kingdom by school phase, age and gender.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
age	Age
gender	Gender
phase	School type
t_pupils	Number of pupils

Footnotes

1. Totals include students with 'other' or 'unknown' gender.
2. Primary and secondary figures include middle schools as deemed. Secondary schools include all-through schools.
3. Figures for independent schools in Scotland are unavailable.
4. In Scotland, nursery figures include all providers of funded Early Learning and Childcare, except childminders.
5. In England, special schools include pupil referral units.
6. Figures for independent schools in Wales are unavailable for 2019/20.

Teachers numbers

• Filename: uk_teachers.csv
• Geographic levels: National; Regional
• Time period: 2015/16 to 2021/22
• Content:

  Number of Full-time equivalent teachers in the United Kingdom by phase and gender.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
gender	Gender
phase	School type
t_fte_teachers	Full-time equivalent number of teachers

Footnotes

1. Totals include teachers with 'other' or 'unknown' gender.
2. Primary and secondary figures include middle schools as deemed. Secondary schools include all-through schools.
3. In England and Scotland, total maintained teachers include centrally employed teachers not included in the school phase breakdowns.
4. Figures for independent schools in Scotland are unavailable.
5. In England, special schools include pupil referral units.
6. Figures for independent schools in Wales are unavailable for 2019/20.

Pupil to teacher ratios (PTRs)

• Filename: uk_pupil_teacher_ratios.csv
• Geographic levels: National; Regional
• Time period: 2015/16 to 2021/22
• Content:

  Pupil to teacher ratios in state funded schools in the United Kingdom by phase.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
phase	School type
pupil_teacher_ratio	Pupil-teacher ratio

Footnotes

1. Primary and secondary figures include middle schools as deemed. Secondary schools include all-through schools.
2. In England, special schools include pupil referral units.
3. In England, the primary pupil-teacher ratio includes local authority (LA) maintained nurseries.

Further education students

• Filename: uk_post_compulsory_education_fe_students.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2015/16 to 2020/21
• Content:

  Number of Further education students in the United Kingdom at further education colleges or higher education providers by age, gender and mode of study.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
age	Age
gender	Gender
mode_of_study	Mode of study
t_students	Number of FE students

Footnotes

1. Totals include further education students at further education colleges or higher education providers
2. Totals include students with 'other' or 'unknown' gender.
3. In England, student numbers by mode of study (e.g. full-time, part-time, work-based learning) are unavailable.

Higher education students

• Filename: uk_post_compulsory_education_he_students.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2016/17 to 2020/21
• Content:

  Number of Higher education students in the United Kingdom at further education colleges or higher education providers by gender, level and mode of study, subject and domicile.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
domicile	Domicile
gender	Gender
level	Level of education
mode_of_study	Mode of study
subject	Subject group
t_students	Number of HE students

Footnotes

1. Subject totals do not include HE students on courses in further education colleges in Northern Ireland or Wales.
2. Totals include students with 'other' or 'unknown' gender.
3. 2020/21 student numbers are not comparable to previous years due to a methodology change.

Further education and Higher education institutions

• Filename: uk_post_compulsory_education_institutions.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2015/16 to 2020/21
• Content:

  Number of Further and Higher education institutions in the United Kingdom.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
provider_type	Provider type
t_institutions	Number of institutions

Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET)

• Filename: uk_neet.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2002 to 2022
• Content:

  Number and percentage of young adults in the United Kingdom who are not in education, employment or training (NEET) by age group and gender.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
age	Age
gender	Gender
pt_neet	People who were NEET as a percentage of people in relevant population group
quarter	Quarter
t_economically_inactive	Total economically inactive
t_neet	Total NEET
t_population	Total people in relevant population group
t_unemployed	Total unemployed

Highest qualification among 19-64 year olds

• Filename: uk_highest_qualifications.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2021
• Content:

  Highest qualification level of adults aged 19-64 in the United Kingdom by age group and gender.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
age	Age
gender	Gender
pt_hiqual_nqf2	Percentage of population with their highest qualification as NQF level 2 or above
pt_hiqual_nqf3	Percentage of population with their highest qualification as NQF level 3 or above
pt_hiqual_nqf4	Percentage of population with their highest qualification as NQF level 4 or above
pt_hiqual_scqf5	Percentage of population with their highest qualification as SCQF level 5 or above
pt_hiqual_scqf6	Percentage of population with their highest qualification as SCQF level 6 or above
pt_hiqual_scqf7	Percentage of population with their highest qualification as SCQF level 7 or above
t_age_1964	Total 19-64 year olds in the population (thousands)

Footnotes

1. Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) levels used in Scotland are not directly comparable to NQF levels used in England/Wales/Northern Ireland. Figures relating to levels 5, 6 and 7 have been provided as the closest match to NQF levels 2, 3 and 4 respectively. Figures for the UK have been calculated using the NQF levels assigned to Scottish qualifications in the Labour Force Survey.

Education expenditure

• Filename: uk_expenditure.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2015-16 to 2021-22
• Content:

  Expenditure on education in the United Kingdom by education function, expenditure type and expenditure level.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
education_function	Education function
expenditure_level	Expenditure level
expenditure_type	Expenditure type
pt_expenditure_of_gdp	Total expenditure as a percentage of GDP
t_expenditure_millions	Total expenditure (millions)
t_expenditure_real_terms_millions	Total expenditure in real terms (millions)

Footnotes

1. In England, secondary education includes expenditure on central government academies which will also cover some schools in primary education