Data set from Further education outcomes

Local Authority District level destinations by sector subject area (LAD02)

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Published 28 November 2024

Last updated 31 January 2025

Reports on the employment and learning destinations of all age 16+ FE learners that achieved their aim and were recorded in the ILR. Broken down by local authority district, provision, level of learning and learner demographics and SSA tier 1&2

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Data set details

• Theme: Destination of pupils and students
• Publication: Further education outcomes
• Release: Academic year 2021/22
• Number of rows: 1,630,391
• Geographic levels: Local authority district, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Advanced apprenticeship (Level 3 or above)
  • Any learning rate
  • Below Level 2 (excluding Essential skills)
  • Community learning
  • Destination not sustained
  • Destination not sustained and in receipt of benefits
  • Destination not sustained and not on benefits
  • English, Maths & ESOL
  • Essential Skills
  • Full Level 2
  • Full Level 3
  • In receipt of benefits only
  • Intermediate apprenticeship (Level 2)
  • Learners
  • Level 2
  • Level 3
  • Level 4/5
  • Level not assigned
  • Lower quartile annualised earnings
  • Median annualised earnings
  • No activity captured in data
  • Number of learners matched to LEO data
  • Number of learners with earnings
  • Self-employed rate
  • Sustained further education rate
  • Sustained apprenticeship rate
  • Sustained employment and learning
  • Sustained employment only rate
  • Sustained employment rate
  • Sustained higher education rate (Level 6+)
  • Sustained learning only rate
  • Sustained learning rate
  • Sustained positive destination rate
  • Sustained progression from achieved aim
  • T Level
  • T Level foundation year
  • Upper quartile annualised earnings
• Filters:
  • Level of learning
  • Provision
  • Sector subject area tier 2
  • T Level aim
• Time period: 2017/18 to 2021/22

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Data set preview

Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	region_code	region_name	lad_code	lad_name	provision	level_of_learning_group	level_of_learning	ssa_tier_1	ssa_tier_2	t_level_aim	number_of_learners	number_of_matched_learners	spd_percent	emp_percent	self_emp_percent	emp_only_percent	emp_and_learn_percent	learn_percent	learn_only_percent	fe_percent	below_l2_ex_essential_percent	essential_skills_percent	eng_math_esol_percent	level_2_percent	full_level_2_percent	level_3_percent	full_level_3_percent	level_4_plus_percent	t_level_percent	t_level_foundation_year_percent	not_assigned_percent	he_percent	app_percent	app_intermediate_percent	app_advanced_plus_percent	any_learn_percent	community_learning_percent	progression_sustained_prior_percent	not_sustained_percent	not_sustained_nb_percent	not_sustained_benefit_percent	benefit_percent	no_dest_percent	learners_with_earnings	25th_percentile	median	75th_percentile
202122	Academic year	National	E92000001	England					Total	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total	1324060	1306800	80	59	4	39	20	41	21	30	1	6	6	8	5	15	9	1	0	0	4	10	3	1	3	55	4	63	11	6	6	4	5	z	z	z	z
202122	Academic year	National	E92000001	England					Total	Total	Total	Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Care	Total	Total	29230	29050	83	60	6	39	21	44	23	38	1	1	1	7	4	27	23	2	0	0	1	5	3	1	2	54	2	54	10	7	3	2	5	z	z	z	z
202122	Academic year	National	E92000001	England					Total	Total	Total	Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Care	Agriculture	Total	3880	3830	84	60	6	37	23	47	24	41	0	1	1	8	6	29	25	2	c	c	1	5	3	1	2	56	0	65	10	8	2	1	5	z	z	z	z
202122	Academic year	National	E92000001	England					Total	Total	Total	Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Care	Animal Care and Veterinary Science	Total	18060	17970	84	57	3	33	24	52	27	44	0	1	1	6	4	34	29	2	0	0	1	7	3	1	2	60	1	50	10	6	3	2	4	z	z	z	z
202122	Academic year	National	E92000001	England					Total	Total	Total	Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Care	Environmental Conservation	Total	770	760	74	67	5	57	10	16	7	10	0	1	1	3	1	5	4	1	0	0	0	6	2	1	1	37	1	87	13	4	10	7	6	z	z	z	z

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Variables in this data set

Table showing all 41 variables

Variable name	Variable description
25th_percentile	Lower quartile annualised earnings
75th_percentile	Upper quartile annualised earnings
any_learn_percent	Any learning rate
app_advanced_plus_percent	Advanced apprenticeship (Level 3 or above)
app_intermediate_percent	Intermediate apprenticeship (Level 2)
app_percent	Sustained apprenticeship rate
below_l2_ex_essential_percent	Below Level 2 (excluding Essential skills)
benefit_percent	In receipt of benefits only
community_learning_percent	Community learning
emp_and_learn_percent	Sustained employment and learning
emp_only_percent	Sustained employment only rate
emp_percent	Sustained employment rate
eng_math_esol_percent	English, Maths & ESOL
essential_skills_percent	Essential Skills
fe_percent	Sustained further education rate
full_level_2_percent	Full Level 2
full_level_3_percent	Full Level 3
he_percent	Sustained higher education rate (Level 6+)
learn_only_percent	Sustained learning only rate
learn_percent	Sustained learning rate
learners_with_earnings	Number of learners with earnings
level_2_percent	Level 2
level_3_percent	Level 3
level_4_plus_percent	Level 4/5
level_of_learning	Level of learning - Filter by level of learning
median	Median annualised earnings
no_dest_percent	No activity captured in data
not_assigned_percent	Level not assigned
not_sustained_benefit_percent	Destination not sustained and in receipt of benefits
not_sustained_nb_percent	Destination not sustained and not on benefits
not_sustained_percent	Destination not sustained
number_of_learners	Learners
number_of_matched_learners	Number of learners matched to LEO data
progression_sustained_prior_percent	Sustained progression from achieved aim
provision	Provision - Filter by provision type (Education & Training, Apprenticeships or Traineeships)
self_emp_percent	Self-employed rate
spd_percent	Sustained positive destination rate
ssa_tier_2	Sector subject area tier 2 - Filter by sector subject area
t_level_aim	T Level aim - Filter by whether aim is a T Level or T Level Foundation Year qualification
t_level_foundation_year_percent	T Level foundation year
t_level_percent	T Level

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Footnotes

1. Region is based on learner postcode
2. Local Authority District is based on learner postcode

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