Data set from School workforce in England

Teacher retirements

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Published 9 June 2022

Last updated 9 June 2022

Teacher retirements from state funded schools: type of award by category including type of school, gender and year.

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Data set details

• Theme: Teachers and school workforce
• Publication: School workforce in England
• Release: Reporting year 2021
• Number of rows: 9,907
• Geographic levels: National
• Indicators:
  • Age ARB
  • Age retirement
  • All retirements
  • Ill health
  • Premature
• Filters:
  • Age group
  • Gender
  • Grade of last post
  • Type of school
• Time period: 2011-12 to 2021-22

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	school_type	grade	gender	age_group	age	premature	arb	ill_health	all_retirements
202122	Financial year	National	E92000001	England	Total Schools in Teachers Pension Scheme	Total	Total	Total	9279	26	4430	449	14184
202122	Financial year	National	E92000001	England	Total Schools in Teachers Pension Scheme	Headteacher	Total	Total	520	2	492	45	1059
202122	Financial year	National	E92000001	England	Total Schools in Teachers Pension Scheme	Other leadership teachers	Total	Total	648	2	517	68	1235
202122	Financial year	National	E92000001	England	Total Schools in Teachers Pension Scheme	Deputy head	Total	Total	247	0	216	25	488
202122	Financial year	National	E92000001	England	Total Schools in Teachers Pension Scheme	Assistant head	Total	Total	401	2	301	43	747

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Variables in this data set

Table showing all 9 variables

Variable name	Variable description
age	Age retirement
age_group	Age group
all_retirements	All retirements
arb	Age ARB
gender	Gender
grade	Grade of last post
ill_health	Ill health
premature	Premature
school_type	Type of school

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