Reporting year 2019

Graduate labour market statistics

Data guidance

Published 7 May 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.

Employment rate by graduate type

• Filename: Employment_Rates_by_Graduate_Type_200719.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2007 to 2019

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
age_group	Age Group - Select the Graduate Age Group you are interested in
Employment_rate	Employment Rate
graduate_type	Graduate Type - Select the Graduate Type you are interested in
High_skill_emp_rate	High Skill Employment Rate
inactivity_rate	Inactivity Rate
Unemployment_rate	Unemployment Rate

Employment rate by quarterly time series

• Filename: Employment_Rate_by_Quarterly_Time_Series.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2007 to 2019

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
age_group	Age Group - Select the Age group you are interested in
Emp_prop	Employment Rate
Emp_prop_lower	Employment Rate Lower Bound
Emp_prop_upper	Employment Rate Upper Bound
graduate_type	Graduate Type - Select the Graduate type you are interested in
HSEmp_prop	High Skill Employment Rate
HSEmp_prop_lower	High Skill Employment Rate Lower Bound
HSEmp_prop_upper	High Skill Employment Rate Upper Bound
Quarter	Quarter - Select which Quarter of the year you are interested in
Unemp_prop	Unemployment Rate
Unemp_prop_lower	Unemployment Rate Lower Bound
Unemp_prop_upper	Unemployment Rate Upper Bound

Graduate breakdown and employment rate

• Filename: GradBreak_Employ_Demographics_2019.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2019

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
Employment_rate	Employment Rate
graduate_breakdown	Graduate Breakdown - Select the Graduate breakdown you are interested in
graduate_group	Graduate Group - Select the Graduate group you are interested in
High_skill_emp_rate	High Skill Employment Rate
Inactivity_rate	Inactivity Rate
Unemployment_rate	Unemployment Rate

Graduate breakdown and salaries

• Filename: GradBreak_salary_Demographics_2019.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2019

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
graduate_breakdown	Graduate Breakdown - Select the Graduate characteristic you interested in
graduate_group	Graduate Age Group - Select the Graduate Age Group you interested in
median	Median Salary to the nearest (£500)
sample_size	Sample Size

Footnotes

1. All Salaries within this publication are rounded to the nearest £500
2. Where no figure is shown, median salary has been suppressed due to sample size

Graduate breakdown by age group

• Filename: GradBreak_AgeGroup_2019.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2019

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
Employment_rate	Employment Rate
graduate_breakdown	Graduate Breakdown - Select the Graduate breakdown you are interested in
High_skill_emp_rate	High Skill Employment Rate
Inactivity_rate	Inactivity Rate
median	Median Salary to the nearest (£500)
Unemployment_rate	Unemployment Rate

Footnotes

1. All Salaries within this publication are rounded to the nearest £500

Salaries by graduate type

• Filename: Yearly_salaries_by_gender_200719.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2007 to 2019

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
age_group	Age Group
gender	Gender
graduate_type	Graduate Type
median	Median Salary to the nearest £500

Footnotes

1. All Salaries within this publication are rounded to the nearest £500

Year on Year Changes

• Filename: Year_on_Year_changes.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2018 to 2019

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
age_group	Age Group - Select the Graduate Age Group you are interested in
Employment_rate	Employment Rate
graduate_type	Graduate Type - Select the Graduate Type you are interested in
High_skill_emp_rate	High-Skilled Employment Rate
inactivity_rate	Inactivity Rate
Unemployment_rate	Unemployment Rate