Academic year 2017/18

Progression to higher education or training

Data guidance

Published 30 September 2020

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.

Headline progression

• Filename: prog_dm_ud_headline_2018.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2015/16

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
all_progressed	Sustained a level 4 or higher destination
characteristic	Student characteristic
data_type	Data type
institution_type	Institution group

Progression to higher education or training: local authority level

• Filename: prog_dm_ud_2018_la.csv
• Geographic levels: Local authority; Parliamentary constituency; Regional
• Time period: 2015/16

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
acag_cohort	Number of pupils studying academic or applied general qualifications
acag_comparator	Academic/AQG national comparator
acag_progressed	Academic/AQG students who sustained L4+ destination
acag_pscore	Academic/AGQ progression score
all_appren	Sustained apprenticeship destination
all_cohort	Number of pupils studying level 3 qualifications
all_comparator	National comparator
all_degree	Sustained degree destination
all_htech	Sustained level 4 or 5 destination
all_oxbridge	Oxford or Cambridge
all_progressed	Sustained a level 4 or higher destination
all_pscore	Progression score
all_russell	Russell group institution
all_top3rd	Top third HE institution
characteristic	Student characteristic
data_type	Data type
institution_group	Institution group
level_methodology	Level based on LEA area or provider location
otl3_cohort	Number of pupils studying other level 3 qualifications
otl3_comparator	Other level 3 national comparator
otl3_progressed	Other level 3 students who sustained L4+ destination
otl3_pscore	Other level 3 progression score
tlev_cohort	Number of pupils studying tech levels
tlev_comparator	Tech level national comparator
tlev_progressed	Tech level students who sustained L4+ destination
tlev_pscore	Tech level progression score

Footnotes

1. Other level 3 qualifications are those that are not included elsewhere in 16-18 performance tables.

Progression to higher education or training: national level

• Filename: prog_dm_ud_2018_nat.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2015/16

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
acag_cohort	Number of pupils studying academic or applied general qualifications
acag_comparator	Academic/AQG national comparator
acag_progressed	Academic/AQG students who sustained L4+ destination
acag_pscore	Academic/AGQ progression score
all_appren	Sustained apprenticeship destination
all_cohort	Number of pupils studying level 3 qualifications
all_comparator	National comparator
all_degree	Sustained degree destination
all_htech	Sustained level 4 or 5 destination
all_oxbridge	Oxford or Cambridge
all_progressed	Sustained a level 4 or higher destination
all_pscore	Progression score
all_russell	Russell group institution
all_top3rd	Top third HE institution
characteristic	Student characteristic
data_type	Data type
institution_type	Institution group
otl3_cohort	Number of pupils studying other level 3 qualifications
otl3_comparator	Other level 3 national comparator
otl3_progressed	Other level 3 students who sustained L4+ destination
otl3_pscore	Other level 3 progression score
tlev_cohort	Number of pupils studying tech levels
tlev_comparator	Tech level national comparator
tlev_progressed	Tech level students who sustained L4+ destination
tlev_pscore	Tech level progression score

Footnotes

1. Special educational needs: following special educational needs and disability (SEND) reforms in 2014/15, SEN students are categorised as 'SEN with a statement or Education, health and care (EHC) plan' and 'SEN support'. SEN support replaces school action and school action plus (grouped as SEN without a statement up to and including 2013/14). It was expected that all transfers to this category take place during the 2014/15 academic year but some legacy categories remain in the current cohort.
2. Other FE sector colleges excludes other government department funded colleges.
3. Academies and free schools: there are now fewer local authority maintained schools and more academies and free schools than at the start of the 2015/16 academic year (when these school types are reported). In the case of some groups of school, such as University Technical Colleges (UTCs), this means the picture of the sector given in these statistics includes some of the first schools of this type to open and is based on a relatively small number of schools, many of which only had students joining for the last year of key stage 4 study.
4. State-funded mainstream schools & colleges covers all state-funded mainstream schools, academies, free schools, city technology colleges (CTCs), sixth forms and other FE sector colleges. Excludes alternative provision, special schools, other government department funded colleges and independent schools.
5. Disadvantage status is given as in year 11. Disadvantaged students are defined as those who were eligible for free school meals at any point in the previous six years or having been looked after by their local authority. These are the students who would have been in receipt of the pupil premium when in year 11. Students with no key stage 4 record were not known to be disadvantaged in year 11 and are included in all other students.
6. Selective schools admit pupils wholly or mainly with reference to ability. These schools are formally designated as grammar schools. The schools status is based on admission policy in the secondary phase (i.e. age 11).
7. Unclassified ethnicity includes students for whom ethnicity was not obtained, refused or could not be determined.
8. Free school meal status is given as in year 11. Students with no key stage 4 record were not known to be eligible in year 11 and are included in all other students.
9. LLDD: Students in colleges may be recorded on the ILR as learners with learning difficulties and disabilities. The definitions differ from special educational needs recorded by schools.
10. Non-selective in highly selective area includes all non-selective schools in local authorities with a high level of selection (where 25% or more of state-funded secondary places are in state-funded selective schools). These local authorities are Bexley, Buckinghamshire, Kent, Lincolnshire, Medway, Poole, Slough, Southend-on-Sea, Sutton, Torbay, Trafford and Wirral.
11. Other non-selective includes all non-selective schools that are not in highly selective areas, including those in areas with some selection.
12. Total state-funded mainstream schools also includes city technology colleges (CTCs). Figures for this institution type are not presented separately. Excludes pupil referral units (PRUs), alternative provision (AP), hospital schools, maintained and non-maintained special schools, independent schools, independent special schools and independent schools approved to take pupils with special educational needs (SEN).
13. Local authority maintained includes community, voluntary aided, voluntary controlled and foundation schools.
14. State-funded mainstream colleges include further education sector colleges and other government department funded colleges.