DDS Entity Definition: R_EDUC_UNQU

Name:
Percentage Unqualified
Identifier:
R_EDUC_UNQU
Type:
Rate (R)
Definition:
EDUC_LEVEL_UNQU_GEN:unqu * 100.0 / EDUC_LEVEL_TOT:total
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This can only be calculated for 1951 and 2001, and the measures are actually rather different. For 1951, the figures are for the proportion of people leaving school at or before age 15, i.e. before the ages at which public exams are usually first taken, while for 2001 they are simply for people without any qualifications. Here it is particularly important to remember that, as the figures cover the whole working population, the data do not tell us what was currently happening in schools in 1951 or 2001.

The very high national rates in 1951, 86% of the workforce of England and Wales lacking qualifications other than those acquired on the job, reflect the low priority given to the education of most of the population in the first half of the century, but this was already changing. By 2001, the proportion had fallen to 29%.

A striking north-south divide is clear in both years, and perhaps especially 2001. The south east had least unqualified people, with the usual exception of a belt along the lower Thames. The highest rates were in industrial districts like Sandwell (46%), Blaenau Gwent (45%) and Easington (44%), while the lowest rates were in Kensington and Chelsea (13%) and the City of London (10%).

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Entity IDEntity Name
T_LEARN Learning & Language


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