Methodologies

Browse to find out about the methodology behind specific education statistics and data and how and why they're collected and published.

Children's social care

Children in need and child protection

• Characteristics of children in need

  • Characteristics of children in need

Children looked after

• Children looked after in England including adoptions

  • Children looked after in England including adoptions

Children's social work workforce

• Children's social work workforce

  • Children's social work workforce

• Children's social work workforce: attrition, caseload, and agency workforce

  • Children's social work workforce: attrition, caseload, and agency workforce

Outcomes for children in social care

• Outcomes for children in need, including children looked after by local authorities in England

  • Outcomes for children in need, including children looked after by local authorities in England

• Outcomes of children in need, including looked after children

  • Outcomes of children in need, including looked after children

Secure children's homes

• Children accommodated in secure children's homes

  • Children accommodated in secure children's homes

Serious incident notifications

• Serious incident notifications

  • Serious incident notifications

COVID-19

Attendance

• Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic

  • Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic

CO2 monitors

• CO2 monitors: cumulative delivery statistics

  • CO2 monitors: cumulative delivery statistics

Children's social care

• Vulnerable children and young people survey

  • Vulnerable children and young people survey

Confirmed cases reported by Higher Education providers

• Coronavirus (COVID-19) Reporting in Higher Education Providers

  • Coronavirus (COVID-19) Reporting in Higher Education Providers

Devices

• Delivery of air cleaning units

  • Delivery of air cleaning units

• Laptops and tablets data

  • Laptops and tablets data

Destination of pupils and students

Destinations of key stage 4 and 16-18 pupils

• 16-18 destination measures

  • 16-18 destination measures

• Further education: outcome-based success measures

  • Further education: outcome-based success measures

• Key stage 4 destination measures

  • Key stage 4 destination measures

• Longer term destinations

  • Longer term destinations

• Progression to higher education or training

  • Progression to higher education and training: methodology

NEET and participation

• NEET age 16 to 24

  • NEET age 16 to 24: methodology

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

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

• Participation in education, training and employment age 16 to 18

  • Participation in education, training and employment age 16 to 18

• September Guarantee: offers of education and training for young people age 16 and 17

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

Early years

Childcare and early years

• Education provision: children under 5 years of age

  • Education provision: children under 5 years of age

Early years foundation stage profile

• Early years foundation stage profile results

  • Early years foundation stage profile results

Finance and funding

Local authority and school finance

• LA and school expenditure

  • LA and school expenditure

• Planned LA and school expenditure

  • Planned LA and school expenditure

• School funding statistics

  • School funding statistics

Student loan forecasts

• Student loan forecasts for England

  • Student loan forecasts for England

Further education

Further education and skills

• Apprenticeships and traineeships

  • Further education and skills statistics: methodology

• Apprenticeships in England by industry characteristics

  • Apprenticeships in England by industry characteristics: methodology

• Further education and skills

  • Further education and skills statistics: methodology

• Skills Bootcamps outcomes

  • Skills Bootcamps outcomes

• Skills Bootcamps starts

  • Skills Bootcamps starts

Further education outcomes

• Career pathways: post-16 qualifications held by employees

  • Career pathways: post-16 qualifications held by employees

• Detailed destinations of 16 to 18 year olds in Further Education

  • Detailed destinations of 16 to 18 year olds in Further Education

• Further education skills index

  • Further education skills index

Higher education

Education exports

• UK revenue from education related exports and transnational education activity

  • UK revenue from education related exports and transnational education activity

Higher education graduate employment and earnings

• Graduate labour market statistics

  • Graduate labour market statistics

• Graduate outcomes (LEO)

  • Graduate outcomes (LEO)

• Graduate outcomes (LEO): postgraduate outcomes

  • Graduate outcomes (LEO): postgraduate outcomes

• LEO Graduate and Postgraduate Outcomes

  • LEO Graduate and Postgraduate Outcomes

• LEO Graduate outcomes provider level data

  • LEO Graduate outcomes provider level data

Higher level learners in England

• Higher Level Learners in England

  • Higher-level learners in England: Methodology

Participation measures in higher education

• Participation measures in higher education

  • Participation measures in higher education

Widening participation in higher education

• Widening participation in higher education

  • Widening participation in higher education

Pupils and schools

Admission appeals

• Admission appeals in England

  • School admission appeals in England: methodology

Exclusions

• Permanent exclusions and suspensions in England

  • Pupil exclusion statistics: methodology

Parental responsibility measures

• Parental responsibility measures

  • Parental responsibility measures

Pupil absence

• Pupil absence in schools in England

  • Pupil absence statistics: methodology

• Pupil absence in schools in England: autumn and spring terms

  • Pupil absence statistics: methodology

• Pupil absence in schools in England: autumn term

  • Pupil absence statistics: methodology

• Pupil attendance in schools

  • Pupil attendance in schools

• The link between absence and attainment at KS2 and KS4

  • The link between absence and attainment at KS2 and KS4

Pupil projections

• National pupil projections

  • National pupil projections

School and pupil numbers

• National Tutoring Programme

  • National Tutoring Programme Statistics Methodology

• Schools, pupils and their characteristics

  • Schools, pupils and their characteristics

School applications

• School placements for children from outside of the UK

  • School placements for children from outside of the UK

• Secondary and primary school applications and offers

  • Secondary and primary school applications and offers

School capacity

• Local authority school places scorecards

  • Local authority school places scorecards

• School capacity

  • School capacity

• School places sufficiency survey

  • School places sufficiency survey: methodology

Special educational needs (SEN)

• Education, health and care plans

  • Education, health and care plans

• Special educational needs in England

  • Special educational needs in England

School and college outcomes and performance

16 to 19 attainment

• A level and other 16 to 18 results

  • A level and other 16 to 18 results

• Level 2 and 3 attainment age 16 to 25

  • Level 2 and 3 attainment age 16 to 25

• Provisional T Level results

  • Provisional T Level results

GCSEs (key stage 4)

• Key stage 4 performance

  • Key stage 4 performance

Key stage 1

• Key stage 1 and phonics screening check attainment

  • Key stage 1 and phonics screening check attainment

Key stage 2

• Key stage 2 attainment

  • Key stage 2 attainment

• Key stage 2 attainment: National headlines

  • Key stage 2 attainment: National headlines

• Multiplication tables check attainment

  • Multiplication tables check attainment

Teachers and school workforce

Initial teacher training (ITT)

• Initial Teacher Training Census

  • Initial Teacher Training Census

• Initial teacher training performance profiles

  • Initial teacher training performance profiles

School workforce

• School workforce in England

  • School workforce in England

• Teacher and Leader development: ECF and NPQs

  • Teacher and Leader development: ECF and NPQs

UK education and training statistics

UK education and training statistics

• Education and training statistics for the UK

  • Education and training statistics for the UK