Reporting year 2020

Graduate labour market statistics

Data guidance

Published

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 (opens in a new tab) and is intended to meet at least 3 stars for Open Data (opens in a new tab).

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 nameVariable description
Employment_rateEmployment Rate
graduate_breakdownGraduate Breakdown - Select the Graduate breakdown you are interested in
High_skill_emp_rateHigh-skilled Employment Rate
Inactivity_rateInactivity Rate
medianMedian Salary to the nearest (£500)
Unemployment_rateUnemployment 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 nameVariable description
Employment_rateEmployment Rate
graduate_breakdownGraduate Breakdown - Select the Graduate breakdown you are interested in
graduate_groupGraduate Group - Select the Graduate group you are interested in
High_skill_emp_rateHigh-skilled Employment Rate
Inactivity_rateInactivity Rate
Unemployment_rateUnemployment 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 nameVariable description
graduate_breakdownGraduate Breakdown - Select the Graduate characteristic you interested in
graduate_groupGraduate Age Group - Select the Graduate Age Group you interested in
medianMedian Salary to the nearest (£500)
sample_sizeSample 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 nameVariable description
Graduate Employment RateGraduate Employment Rate
Graduate High-skilled Employment RateGraduate 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-graduatesMedian 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 nameVariable description
age_groupAge Group - Select the Graduate Age Group you are interested in
Employment_rateEmployment Rate
graduate_typeGraduate Type - Select the Graduate Type you are interested in
High_skill_emp_rateHigh-skilled Employment Rate
inactivity_rateInactivity Rate
Unemployment_rateUnemployment 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 nameVariable description
graduate_breakdownGraduate Breakdown - Select the breakdown you are interested in
graduate_characteristicGraduate Characteristic - Select the characteristic you are interested in
graduate_typeGraduate Type - Select the graduate type you are interested in
proportion_part_time_workersProportion 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 nameVariable description
age_groupAge Group - Select the Age group you are interested in
Emp_propEmployment Rate
Emp_prop_lowerEmployment Rate Lower Bound
Emp_prop_upperEmployment Rate Upper Bound
graduate_typeGraduate Type - Select the Graduate type you are interested in
HSEmp_propHigh-skilled Employment Rate
HSEmp_prop_lowerHigh-skilled Employment Rate Lower Bound
HSEmp_prop_upperHigh-skilled Employment Rate Upper Bound
QuarterQuarter - Select which Quarter of the year you are interested in
Unemp_propUnemployment Rate
Unemp_prop_lowerUnemployment Rate Lower Bound
Unemp_prop_upperUnemployment 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 nameVariable description
age_groupAge Group
genderGender
graduate_typeGraduate Type
medianMedian Salary to the nearest £500
Footnotes
  1. Median salaries are rounded to the nearest £500.