Business, Innovation and Skills written question – answered at on 19 June 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
(1) how many people (a) started and (b) completed apprenticeships in the areas currently covered by (i) City of York Council and (ii) York Central constituency in (A) the most recent year for which figures are available, (B) 2010, (C) 1997 and (d) 1992;
(2) what proportion of the working age population of the areas currently covered by (a) York travel to work area, (b) City of York Council, (c) York Central constituency and (d) Yorkshire and the Humber hold qualifications equivalent to NVQ level 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Table 1 gives the number of apprenticeship framework starts and achievements during the 2009/10 and 2010/11 academic years. Figures relating to 1992 and 1997 are not available.
Table 1: Apprenticeship framework starts and achievements by Geography, 2009/10 and 2010/11 | ||||
Starts | Achievements | |||
2009/10 | 2010/11 | 2009/10 | 2010/11 | |
York central constituency | 530 | 850 | 310 | 390 |
York local education authority | 950 | 1,490 | 580 | 690 |
Notes: 1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10. 2. Geography is based upon the home postcode of the learner. 3. These figures are based on the geographic boundaries of regions as of May 2010. 4. Learners starting and achieving more than one framework will appear more than once. Source: Individualised Learner Record (ILR) |
Information on the number of apprenticeship starts is published in a quarterly Statistical First Release (SFR). The latest SFR was published on
http://www.thedataservice.org.uk/statistics/statisticalfirstrelease/sfr_current.
Further breakdowns are available in SFR supplementary tables:
http://www.thedataservice.org.uk/statistics/statisticalfirstrelease/sfr_supplementary_tables/.
Table 2 gives the proportion of the working age (19-59/64) population broken down by qualification level in 2010, for York local education authority and York travel-to-work area.
Table 2: Qualification levels of working age population by Geography, 2010 | |||||
Percentages | |||||
Highest qualification level | |||||
No qualification | Below level 2 | Level 2 or above | Level 3 or above | Level 4 or above | |
York local education authority | 5.9 | 12.1 | 82.0 | 67.5 | 42.7 |
York travel to work area | 6.5 | 13.7 | 79.8 | 62.9 | 41.1 |
95% Confidence intervals | |||||
Highest qualification level | |||||
No qualification | Below Level 2 | Level 2 or above | Level 3 or above | Level 4 or above | |
York local education authority | +/- 1.5pp | +/- 2.1pp | +/- 2.5pp | +/- 3.0pp | +/- 3.2pp |
York travel to work area | +/- 1.4pp | +/- 2.0pp | +/- 2.3pp | +/- 2.8pp | +/- 2.9pp |
Source: Annual Population Survey (APS) |
The estimates in table 2 are sourced using the Annual Population survey (APS), which contains more data at lower-level geographies. While local authority level estimates and travel to work areas can be calculated from the APS, the sample is not large enough to provide estimates for smaller geographies such as all parliamentary constituencies. Furthermore, estimates for local authorities are subject to large sampling variability and should therefore be treated with caution and viewed in conjunction with their confidence intervals (CIs), which indicate how accurate an estimate is. For example, a CI of +A3.2 percentage points (pp) means that the true value is between 3.2pp above the estimate and 3.2pp below the estimate.
It should be noted that the estimates in table 2 using the APS are not able to be adjusted for known issues of misreporting that the published national estimate can be using the Labour Force survey (LFS). At the national level these estimates could typically see small increases.
Further sub-regional and regional estimates of educational attainment derived from the Annual Population survey (APS) are available in SFR supplementary tables:
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