Rate
:
Percentage of persons with university degrees or equivalent
Rates are used to define comparative statistics that can be
mapped and graphed.
For example, our occupational information includes counts
of the number of workers in employment and out of employment,
as well as the total number of workers.
We then define a measure called the 'Unemployment Rate',
which uses the number out of work rather than the number
in work, and expresses it as a percentage of the total,
rather than a rate per thousand.
The descriptive text in the system is defined mainly
for rates.
- Identifier:
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R_EDUC_GRAD
- Name:
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Percentage of persons with university degrees or equivalent
- Type:
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Rate (R)
- Definition:
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EDUC_LEVEL_GRAD_GEN:grad
*
100.0
/
EDUC_LEVEL_TOT:total
- Display as:
- Separate data values
- Text:
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It maybe tells us something about priorities that the census lets us count the
unqualified for only four censuses but graduates for six.
However, definitions vary a good deal over time:
For 1951, our figures are for people who remained in education past age 20.
For 1971, the figures are for people with degrees or Higher National Certificates.
For 1981, the definition is particularly broad, covering all with "degrees,
professional or vocational qualifications", while in 1991 it is simply degrees.
Unsurprisingly. the overall rate for England and Wales dropped from 9.7% to
7.2% between these two years.
The 2011 data cover all with degrees, "NVQ levels 4 and 5; HNC; HND;", or
formal medical or teaching qualifications.
Despite these complications, the geographical pattern changes very little over time,
districts with high proportions of graduates being strongly concentrated
into the south east.
Rate
"
Percentage of persons with university degrees or equivalent
" is contained within:
Themes, which organise the database into broad topics:
Entity ID |
Entity Name |
T_LEARN
|
Learning & Language |
Rate
"
Percentage of persons with university degrees or equivalent
" contains no lower-level entities.