Theme : Learning & Language

Themes are used in the Vision of Britain system to organise all our statistical data into a small number of broad categories, often identified by icons on the web site.

Identifier:

T_LEARN

Name:

Learning & Language

Type:

Theme (T)

Text:

Since 1951, the census has gathered information on what point in the education system individuals reached: did they leave school as soon as was legal, without qualifications? did they get GCSEs? and did they go to university and get a degree? In general, this information covers everyone of working age, so it has to be seen as an 'average' of decisions to stay on at school or leave taken during the forty or fifty years prior to the census.

Unfortunately, the variation in what was reported by different censuses means none of our measures can be presented for every census, and also that the precise definitions of measures vary from census to census, so precise rates cannot generally be compared over time, only relative positions.

Theme "Learning & Language" is contained within:

The Database, which everything else is contained within:

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Theme "Learning & Language" contains:

Rates, for mapping and for comparing areas :

Datasets or nCubes, containing the actual data :

Variables, defining what data was gathered for :