Academic year 2017/18

FE learners going into employment and learning destinations by local authority district

Data guidance

Published 28 January 2021

Description

The FE outcome-based success measures present statistics on the employment, earnings and learning outcomes of FE learners. This publication covers learners that achieved apprenticeships, adult (19+) FE and Skills learners and completers of traineeships in 2017/18, and tracks their outcomes in the following academic year, 2018/19.

The data uses the longitudinal education outcomes (LEO) study, which looks at how learners move through education and into the labour market by bringing together:

• schools, further and higher education information from the Department for Education (DfE)
• employment information from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)
• benefit histories from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP)

Coverage

This publication reports on the employment and learning destinations of ESFA funded further education learners from 2013/14 to 2017/18. Included in this cohort are:

• All apprenticeship learners
• All traineeship learners
• Adult (aged 19+) further education and skills learners

File formats and conventions

The underlying data files are provided in comma separated value (csv) format.

Whole numbers are rounded to the nearest 10, percentages are provided to the nearest whole number. Figures have been suppressed with the value ‘c’ for numbers lower than 6, and percentages where the numerator is less than 3 or the denominator is less than 6.

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.

Number of FE learners going into employment and learning destinations by local authority district

• Filename: lad.csv
• Geographic levels: Local authority district; National; Regional
• Time period: 2013/14 to 2017/18
• Content:

  Reports on the employment, and learning destinations of adult FE & Skills learners, and all age apprentices that achieved their learning aim, and Traineeship learners that completed their aim.Includes earnings data one year after learning for learners achieving at Full level 2, Full level 3 and level 4+.

  Broken down by local authority district.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
AnyLearn	Any learning
App	Sustained apprenticeship
AppAdvancedPlus	Advanced apprenticeship (Level 3 or above)
AppIntermediate	Intermediate apprenticeship (Level 2)
BelowL2	Below Level 2 (excluding English & Maths)
Benefits	In receipt of benefits only
Emp	Sustained employment
EmpAndLearn	Sustained employment and learning
EmpOnly	Sustained employment only
EngMath	English & Maths
FE	Sustained further education
FullLevel2	Full Level 2
FullLevel3	Full Level 3
HE	Sustained higher education (Level 6+)
Learn	Sustained learning
LearnOnly	Sustained learning only
Level2	Level 2
Level3	Level 3
Level4Plus	Level 4/5
NoDest	No activity captured in data
NotAssigned	Level not assigned
NotSustained	Destination not sustained
NotSustainedBenefit	Destination not sustained and in receipt of benefits
NotSustainedNB	Destination not sustained and not on benefits
NumberOfLearners	Learners
NumberOfMatchedLearners	Number of learners matched to LEO data
SelfEmp	Self-employed
SPD	Sustained positive destination

Footnotes

1. A number of unmatched learners were counted in error for the 'Destination not sustained', 'In receipt of benefits only' and 'No activity captured in data' measures. As such the total number of learners in the measures 'Sustained positive destination', 'Destination not sustained', 'In receipt of benefits only' and 'No activity captured in data' exceeds the total number of matched learners. The magnitude of this issue is less than 4,000 learners at a national level.