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Calendar year 2019
Participation in education, training and employment age 16 to 18
Data guidance
Published
Description
This document describes the data included in the ‘Participation in education, training and employment: 2019’ National Statistics release’s underlying data file. This data is released under the terms of the Open Government License (opens in a new tab) and is intended to meet at least three stars for Open Data (opens in a new tab).
The underlying data files include national participation estimates for 16-18 year olds in England and are broken down by (academic) age, gender, institution type, whether full-time (FT) or part-time (PT), and by highest study aim.
The technical document published with the release should be referenced alongside this data. It provides information on the data sources, their coverage and quality as well as explaining methodology used in producing the data.
File formats and conventions
The underlying data files contain unrounded figures as estimated from the administrative and survey data as outlined in the accompanying technical documentation.
No suppression has been applied, as the data is not considered sensitive and no additional characteristic or geography variables are included to enable individuals to be accurately identified.
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 rates of young people not in education or training
Filename
participation_employment_rate_of_net.csv
Geographic levels
National
Time period
1994 to 2019
Content
Proportion of those not in education or training but employed by age. National data covering end 1994 - prov end 2019.
Variable names and descriptions
Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:
Participation in education and apprenticeships by institution and qualification type
Filename
participation_inst_qual_2020_.csv
Geographic levels
National
Time period
1994 to 2019
Content
Numbers and proportions of population participating in education, training and employment by 16-18 year olds by age, gender, institution type and highest qualification aim. National data covering end 1994 – prov end 2019.
Variable names and descriptions
Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:
Variable name
Variable description
age
Academic age
gender
Gender
institution_or_apprenticeship
Institution type
mode_of_study
Full or part-time
number_or_percentage
Number or percentage
participation_education_apprenticeship_wbl
Participation in education and apprenticeships/WBL
Participation in education, training and employment headlines
Filename
participation_headlines_2020_.csv
Geographic levels
National
Time period
1994 to 2019
Content
Numbers and proportions of population participating in education, training and employment by 16-18 year olds by age, gender and labour market status. National data covering end 1994 – prov end 2019.
Variable names and descriptions
Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:
Variable name
Variable description
age
Academic age
eft
Employer funded training (including overlaps)
eft_less_pte_overlap
Employer funded training (less overlaps)
eft_of_which_pte
Overlap of those in employer funded training and part-time education
fte
Full-time education
gender
Gender
labour_market_status
Labour market status
lms
Population within the selected labour market status
neet
NEET
net
NET
net_in_employment
NET but in employment
number_in_population
Number in population
number_or_percentage
Number or percentage
oet
Other education and training (including overlaps)
oet_less_pte_overlap
Other education and training (less overlaps)
oet_of_which_pte
Overlap of those in other education and training and part-time education
of_which_wbl_in_fte
Overlap of those in apprenticeships/WBL and full-time education
Additional breakdowns of proportion of population participating in full-time education by age, gender, institution and highest qualification aim. National data only covering prov end 2019.
Variable names and descriptions
Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:
Variable name
Variable description
age
Academic age
gender
Gender
institution
Institution
participating_in_fte
Participating in full-time education
percent_of
Percent of - Filter by values as a proportion of the whole population or a proportion of those in full-time education. Not all combinations have data present