{"value":{"id":765809,"askingMemberId":1511,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2017-10-06T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2017-10-10T00:00:00","uin":"105745","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of 16 to 19-year olds participate in (a) A-levels and (b) a technical or vocational pathway in each region of England.","answeringBodyId":60,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Education","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":1523,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2017-10-16T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The proportion of students at the end of their 16-18 study, entering A levels, tech levels and applied general qualifications is published as part of the A level and other 16-18 results Statistical First Release (SFR)<sup>1</sup>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The published figures are based on only those students at the end of their 16-18 study, not on all 16-19 year-olds. The proportion of the whole population of 16-19 year olds can be estimated using the numerators used in the above table from the SFR<sup>1 </sup>and taking the denominator from either the ONS population estimates for the relevant age group<sup>2</sup> or the number of students at the end of key stage 4 in 2013/14 as the total potential 16-18 cohort for the academic year 2015/16<sup>3</sup>.</p><p>1. <a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-16-to-18-results-2015-to-2016-revised\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-16-to-18-results-2015-to-2016-revised</a> (Local authority tables: SFR05/2017 – table 9a).</p><p>2. <a href=\"https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/populationestimatesforukenglandandwalesscotlandandnorthernireland\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/populationestimatesforukenglandandwalesscotlandandnorthernireland</a>. Select the mid 2016 dataset and sum the figures for all 16-19 year olds.</p><p>3. <a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-gcses-key-stage-4\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-gcses-key-stage-4</a>. Table 1a in the ‘national tables’ provides the number of pupils at the end of key stage 4 for that year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Further Education","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/765809","method":"GET"}]}