Reporting year 2020

Graduate labour market statistics

Data guidance

Published 10 June 2021

Description

This document describes the underlying data files included in the Graduate Labour market statistics. 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 provides additional information on the generation and interpretation of figures and should be referenced together with the data. The methodology is available on the publication report. 

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Coverage

The GLMS publication reports on the labour market outcomes of graduates and postgraduates, and compares them with those of non-graduates. The statistics use the data collected via the Labour Force Survey (LFS) relating to individuals domiciled within England. 

This release explores:

• employment and earnings outcomes of graduates by their specific characteristics of gender, age group, ethnicity, disability status, degree class, subject, sector, occupation and region,
• employment and earnings outcomes of graduates, post graduates and non-graduates by their age group and gender,
• proportion of graduates and non graduates that work part time by their gender and age group.

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File formats and conventions

Format

Files are Comma Separated Value (CSV)

 Conventions

• ‘:’ samples are unavailable or sizes small.
• Employment rates are rounded to one decimal place.
• Median salaries are rounded to the nearest £500.
• Labour Force Survey (LFS) datasets are routinely reweighted in line with population estimates. In 2018 a new weighting variable was introduced, PWT18, to LFS datasets from July - September 2011 onwards.
• LFS responses are weighted to official 2018-based population projections on demographic trends that pre-date the coronavirus pandemic.  Rates published from the LFS remain robust; however, levels and changes in levels should be used with caution. This will particularly affect estimates for ethnicity, and disability.

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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.

Graduate Employment Rates and Salaries by age group

• Filename: gradbreak_agegroup_2020.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2020
• Content:

  Employment rates and salaries in 2020.

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-skilled Employment Rate
Inactivity_rate	Inactivity Rate
median	Median Salary to the nearest (£500)
Unemployment_rate	Unemployment Rate

Footnotes

1. Median salaries are rounded to the nearest £500.

Graduate Employment Rates by different demographics

• Filename: gradbreak_employ_demographics_2020.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2020
• Content:

  Employment rates by different demographics

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-skilled Employment Rate
Inactivity_rate	Inactivity Rate
Unemployment_rate	Unemployment Rate

Footnotes

1. Disability status – Disabled/ Not Disabled. This breakdown is based on the legal definition found in the Equality Act (2010) which defines a disability as “a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on your ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities”.
2. Where no figure is shown, the data has been suppressed due to sample size.
3. The graduate group does not included postgraduates.

Graduate salaries by different demographics

• Filename: gradbreak_salary_demographics_2020.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2020
• Content:

  Annual graduate salaries by gender, age group, ethnicity, disability status, degree class, subject, sector, occupation and region,

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. Median salaries are rounded to the nearest £500.
2. Where no figure is shown, the data has been suppressed due to sample size.

Headline Figures

• Filename: headline_figures.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2020
• Content:

  Headline figures included in publication

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
Graduate Employment Rate	Graduate Employment Rate
Graduate High-skilled Employment Rate	Graduate High-skilled Employment Rate
Median Salary for Graduates (to the nearest £500)	Median Salary for Graduates (to the nearest £500)
Median Salary Premium for Graduates over Non-graduates	Median Salary Premium for Graduates over Non-graduates

Time Series for Employment Rates for different graduate types

• Filename: employment_rates_by_graduate_type_200720.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2007 to 2020
• Content:

  Employment rates 2007 - 2020

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

Footnotes

1. Caution should be exercised in making comparisons to years prior to 2010-2011 as SOC codes were revised by the ONS at this point (see methodology).

Time Series for Part-time working

• Filename: part_time_working_proportions_200720.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2007 to 2020
• Content:

  Part-time time series 2007 - 2020

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
graduate_breakdown	Graduate Breakdown - Select the breakdown you are interested in
graduate_characteristic	Graduate Characteristic - Select the characteristic you are interested in
graduate_type	Graduate Type - Select the graduate type you are interested in
proportion_part_time_workers	Proportion Of Part Time Workers

Footnotes

1. The graduate group does not included postgraduates.

Time Series for quarterly Employment Rates

• Filename: employment_rate_by_quarterly_time_series_200720.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2007 to 2020
• Content:

  Quarterly employment rates 2007 - 2020

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-skilled Employment Rate
HSEmp_prop_lower	High-skilled Employment Rate Lower Bound
HSEmp_prop_upper	High-skilled 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

Footnotes

1. Caution should be exercised in making comparisons to years prior to 2010-2011 as SOC codes were revised by the ONS at this point (see methodology).

Time Series for salaries by gender and different graduate types

• Filename: yearly_salaries_by_gender_200720.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2007 to 2020
• Content:

  Graduate salaries by demographics 2007 - 2020

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. Median salaries are rounded to the nearest £500.