Academic year 2021/22

Participation in education, training and NEET age 16 to 17 by local authority

Data guidance

Published 1 December 2022

Description

This document describes the data included in the ‘Participation in education, training and NEET age 16 and 17 by local authority’ management information release’s underlying data. This data is released under the terms of the Open Government License and is intended to meet at least three stars for Open Data.

The underlying data files include national, regional and local authority participation and NEET estimates for 16-17 year olds in England and are broken down by (academic) age, gender, ethnic group and special educational needs and disability (SEND).

The methodology accompanying the release should be referenced alongside this data. It provides information on the data source, coverage and quality.

File formats and conventions

The files are in comma separated values format (.csv) with UTF-8 encoding.

Rounding and suppression has been applied as described in the confidentiality section of the accompanying methodology to avoid disclosure.

Symbols used in the underlying data are as follows:

Symbol | Meaning
z | When an observation is not applicable

c | When an observation has been suppressed to avoid disclosure.

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.

NEET by characteristics

Filename: ud_neet_characteristics.csv
Geographic levels: Local authority; National; Regional
Time period: 2019 to 2022
Content: National, regional and local authority NEET estimates by (academic) age, gender, ethnic group and special educational needs and disability (SEND).

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
Age	age - filter by age
annual_change_NEETNK	Annual change in NEET/not known rate
avgcohort	Cohort number
avgNEET	Number NEET
avgNEETNK	Number NEET/activity not known
avgNK	Number activity not known
Characteristic	Characteristic - filter by characteristic
NEETNKprop	NEET/not known proportion
NEETprop	NEET proportion
Notknownprop	Activity not known proportion

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Participation by characteristics

Filename: ud_participation_characteristics.csv
Geographic levels: Local authority; National; Regional
Time period: 2019 to 2022
Content: National, regional and local authority participation in education and training estimates by (academic) age, gender, ethnic group and special educational needs and disability (SEND).

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
Age	age - filter by age
annual_change	annual change in proportion in education and training
Characteristic	Characteristic - filter by characteristic
cohort	Cohort number
Proportion_in_education_and_training	Proportion in education and training
Total_in_education_and_training	Number in education and training

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Participation by type

Filename: ud_participation_by_type.csv
Geographic levels: Local authority; National; Regional
Time period: 2019 to 2022
Content: National, regional and local authority participation in education and training estimates by type of participation and duty to participate.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
annual_change	Annual change in percent participating
number	Number
Participation_type	Participation type
percent	Percent

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NEET and participation LA scorecard

Filename: ud_neetnk_la_dashboard_2022_final.csv
Geographic levels: Local authority; National; Regional
Time period: 2022
Content: National, regional and local authority NEET and participation in education and training estimates.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
Age	Age
Age1617_ONS_population	Age 16-17 population ONS estimate
annual_change_apprenticeship	Annual change in the percentage of the cohort on an apprenticeship
annual_change_FTE	Annual change in the percentage of the cohort in full-time education
annual_change_other_education_training	Annual change in the percentage of the cohort in other education and training
annual_change_Participation_in_education_training	Annual change in the percentage of the cohort participation in education and training
annual_change_ppts_NEET_not_known	Annual change in the percentage of the cohort who are NEET or not known
annualchange_NEET	Annual change in the percentage of the cohort who are NEET
annualchange_notknown	Annual change in the percentage of the cohort with activity not known
Apprenticeship_percent	Percentage of the cohort on an apprenticeship
avg_att8	Average attainment 8 score per pupil
Cohort_DJFavg	Total cohort (average of Dec/Jan/Feb)
cohort_EHCP_percent	Percentage of the cohort with an EHCP
cohort_March	Total cohort (March)
cohort_noSEN_percent	Percentage of the cohort with no SEN
cohort_SENDsupport_percent	Percentage of the cohort who have SEND support
Full_time_education_percent	Percentage of the cohort in full-time education
L2_em_GCSE_othL2	Percentage 19 year olds achieving GCSE 9-4 standard pass in English and maths (or equivalent) between ages 16 and 19 for those who had not achieved this level by 16
Level_3	Percentage 19 year olds achieving a level 3
NEET_NK_EHCP_percent	Percentage with an EHCP who are NEET or activity not known
NEET_NK_noSEN_percent	Percentage with no SEN who are NEET or activity not known
NEET_NK_quintile	NEET and activity not known quintile
NEET_NK_SENDsupport_percent	Percentage SEND support who are NEET or activity not known
NEET_not_known_percent	Percentage of the cohort who are NEET or not known
NEET_percent	Percentage of the cohort who are NEET
NEET_quintile	NEET quintile
Notknown_percent	Percentage of the cohort with activity not known
Notknown_quintile	Activity not known quintile
Other_education_and_training_percent	Percentage of the cohort in other education and training
Participation_ET_quintile	Participation in education and training quintile
pt_l2basics_94	9-4 standard pass in English and maths GCSEs
Sep_guarantee_quintile	September Guarantee quintile
September_guarantee_annual_change_ppts	Annual change in the percentage of September Guarantee offers made
September_guarantee_Offer_made_percent	Percentage of September Guarantee offers made
sess_overall_percent	Overall absence (% of sessions)
sess_overall_percent_pa_10_exact	Persistent absentees (% of pupils)
TOTAL_participating_in_education_and_training_percent	Percentage of the cohort participating in education and training
VG_cohort_DJF_avg	Cohort of vulnerable group (average of Dec/Jan/Feb)
VG_cohort_percentage	Percentage of the total cohort who are in a vulnerable group
VG_NEET_NK_percentage	Percentage of the vulnerable group who are NEET or activity not known

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