Highest qualification levels of working age adults by NUTS2 area, qualification and year
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Title
Levels of highest qualifications held by working age adults by UA and genderLast update
April 2016Next update
April 2017 (provisional)Publishing organisation
Welsh GovernmentSource 1
Annual Population Survey, Office for National StatisticsContact email
post16ed.stats@wales.gsi.gov.ukDesignation
National StatisticsLowest level of geographical disaggregation
Local authoritiesGeographical coverage
WalesLanguages covered
English onlyGeneral description
Data are presented for working age adults i.e. including males aged 18-64 and females aged 18-59, according to their age at the start of the academic year.Data collection and calculation
Source: Annual Population Survey/Annual Local Labour Force Survey, Office for National StatisticsThe data are based on the results of the Annual Population Survey for 2004 onwards, and from the annual Local Labour Force Survey for Wales for 2001-2003, both of which are household surveys carried out by the Office for National Statistics.
From 2001, annual Local Labour Force Survey (LLFS) data collected in Wales were based on a significantly enhanced sample.
The survey asks respondents for qualifications that they hold, and from this information the highest qualification held by the respondent is calculated. The highest qualifications are grouped into National Qualification Framework (NQF) levels. Figures are provided for those obtaining qualifications at least at a certain level, and qualifications up to and including a certain level.
Data have previously been presented as NVQ equivalencies. From September 2004, the National Qualification Framework (NQF) was expanded and the former levels 4 and 5 were divided into more precise levels (4-8). Data are now presented according to this classification.
Frequency of publication
AnnualData reference periods
For years labelled 2001 to 2003 in this dataset, the actual periods covered are the 12 months running from March in the year given to February in the following year (e.g. 2001 = 1 March 2001 to 28 February 2002).Since 2004, the annual data have been produced on a rolling annual basis, updated every three months. The rolling annual averages are on a calendar basis with the first rolling annual average presented here covering the period 1 January 2004 to 31 December 2004.
Note therefore that there is a two-month overlap between the last period presented on the former March to February basis, and the first period on the new basis.
Users, uses and context
The statistics are used within the Welsh Government to monitor trends in qualification levels and specifically are included within the Skills Performance measures and the Tackling Poverty Action Plan.Rounding applied
Percentages are rounded to one decimal place.Statistical quality
The figures for local authorities in Wales (not the figures for all of Wales) for 2001, 2002 and 2003 in these tables may not be the same as published elsewhere, as the numbers here are estimated using Welsh specific weights. These weights better reflect the population estimates for Welsh local authorities in these years.As the data come from a survey, the results are sample-based estimates and therefore subject to differing degrees of sampling variability, i.e. the true value for any measure lies in a differing range about the estimated value. This range or sampling variability increases as the detail in the data increases; for example local authority data are subject to higher variability than regional data.
