Calendar year 2021

Graduate labour market statistics

Official statistics on labour market outcomes such as salaries and employment rates, for graduates, non-graduates and postgraduates.

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Data guidance

Description of the data sets included in this release, including information on data sources, coverage, quality and any data conventions used.

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

Coverage

The graduate labour market statistics 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.

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.  In 2021 a further reweighting was applied to the LFS, with 2020 (PWT20) population weights being applied to both the 2020 and the 2021 LFS quarterly data.
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If you have a specific enquiry about Graduate labour market statistics statistics and data:

HE Analysis Priority Statistics Policy Support Team

Email: PSPSTeam@education.gov.uk
Contact name: Steve White
Telephone: 07712423965

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