Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO): Graduate Industry, Tax year 2020-21

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Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO): Graduate Industry, Tax year 2020-21

Welcome

For the first time, SIC (UK Standard Industrial Classification of economic activities) codes have been joined to LEO data using the IDBR (Inter-Departmental Business Register data) at one, three, five and ten years after graduation. This means we can now see what industry graduates were working in at these points in time. For more detail see our official statistics publication on LEO Graduate and Postgraduate Outcomes.

This dashboard has been produced by the Department for Education to support the aims of the Unit for Future Skills.


Contents

This tab takes a longitudinal view of the five year after graduation cohort (2014/15 academic year of graduation cohort), as it shows the industry sections they worked in and flowed between at one, three and five years after graduation. You can filter this analysis to look at graduates of a specific subject area, or filter by graduate sex.

This tab compares where graduates studied to where they lived at one, three, five and ten years after graduation, for each industry, and uses the 2020/21 tax year data (so does not follow the same cohort as the industry flow analysis). It can be filtered to look at graduates of a specific subject area, and provides context on the number of providers and median earnings for the selected options for each region.

These tables look at the one, three, five and ten year after graduation cohorts from the 2020/21 tax year. The tables show which industries graduates of the selected subject area go on to work in. You can expand the industry sections in these tables to view a more detailed breakdown of the 3 digit SIC groups within that industry. The following breakdowns are currently available:
  • Sex
  • Ethnicity
  • Free School Meal (FSM) status
  • Current region
  • Prior attainment
  • Subject
  • Qualification level
These tables look at the one, three, five and ten year after graduation cohorts from the 2020/21 tax year. The tables show which subjects graduates working in a selected industry area previously studied. You can view this at the 3 digit SIC group level and may select multiple SIC groups within an industry area at one time. The following breakdowns are currently available:
  • Sex
  • Ethnicity
  • Free School Meal (FSM) status
  • Current region
  • Prior attainment
  • Industry section
  • Qualification level

IDBR and SIC background

IDBR (Inter-Departmental Business Register)

IDBR data is a comprehensive list of UK businesses used by government for statistical purposes.

UK SIC (Standard Industrial Classification) code

The UK Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) of economic activities is used to classify businesses by the type of activity they do.

Useful links

Standard industrial classification of economic activities (SIC) - GOV.UK.(www.gov.uk)
Office for National Statistics interactive SIC hierarchy

SIC Groups and sections

Using the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) of economic activities, there are over 700 detailed industry codes at the 5 digit level, which are then grouped hierarchically at the 4, 3 and 2 digit level before being grouped into 21 broad industry sections (see the above link to the ONS interactive hierarchy). In this dashboard, the industry flow and regional analysis are both available only at the broadest level of the 21 industry sections. The tables go into more detail, with almost 250 SIC groups available to view at the 3 digit level by expanding the broad sections which consist of the following:

  1. Accommodation and food service activities
  2. Activities of extraterritorial organisations and bodies
  3. Activities of households as employers - undifferentiated goods-and services-producing activities of households for own use
  4. Administrative and support service activities
  5. Agriculture, forestry and fishing
  6. Arts, entertainment and recreation
  7. Construction
  8. Education
  9. Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply
  10. Financial and insurance activities
  11. Human health and social work activities
  12. Information and communication
  13. Manufacturing
  14. Mining and quarrying
  15. Other service activities
  16. Professional, scientific and technical activities
  17. Public administration and defence - compulsory social security
  18. Real estate activities
  19. Transportation and storage
  20. Water supply - sewerage, waste management and remediation activities
  21. Wholesale and retail trade - repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles




How to read this sankey
The coloured bars represent graduates in that industry at each year after graduation, and the grey flow lines show the movement of these graduates from one year after graduation on the left, to three years of graduation in the middle, to five years after graduation on the right side. Hover your mouse over a bar or flow line to see the number of graduates it represents. Please note that this chart only displays the top 9 industries and the rest are being grouped automatically into 'Other'. To see the full breakdown of industries please view the Industry proportions table.
1 year after graduation
3 years after graduation
5 years after graduation

Footnotes
1. All populations are rounded to the nearest 5 full-person equivalent (FPE) individuals.

Footnotes
1. Outcome percentages are rounded to the nearest 0.1%.
2. All populations are rounded to the nearest 5 full-person equivalent (FPE) individuals.
3. c = data has been supressed due to small numbers. x = there is no result available (N/A)
Caveats
• Data for Level 7 (research) and Level 8 graduates are available in the underlying data files.
• Data only includes graduates who were in sustained employment in the associated tax year, and a graduate's industry is recorded as the industry in which they earnt the most in the associated tax year.
• SIC codes tell us the industry of the company that the graduate works for, and does NOT tell us about the graduates occupation within that company.
• For a graduate to be included in this section they must have been in sustained employment at either one and three years after graduation, or three and five years after graduation. These figures will therefore not be comparable to the five year after graduation cohort in the 'Subject by industry' or 'Industry by subject' sections in this dashboard.

Regional summary



Footnotes
1. Outcome percentages are rounded to the nearest 0.1%.
2. Earnings figures are rounded to the nearest £100
3. All populations are rounded to the nearest 5 full-person equivalent (FPE) individuals.
4. c = data has been supressed due to small numbers. x = there is no result available (N/A)

How to read this sankey
The coloured bars represent graduates in that region, and the grey flow lines show the movement of these graduates from region of study on the left, to current region of residence on the right. Hover your mouse over a bar or flow line to see the number of graduates it represents.
Region of study
Current region


Regional table

Click a column header to sort the table

Please note that the table only shows results for the selected industry, subject and year after graduation.

Footnotes
1. Outcome percentages are rounded to the nearest 0.1%.
2. Earnings figures are rounded to the nearest £100
3. All populations are rounded to the nearest 5 full-person equivalent (FPE) individuals.
4. c = data has been supressed due to small numbers. x = there is no result available (N/A)
Caveats
• Data for Level 7 (research) and Level 8 graduates are available in the underlying data files.
• Data only includes graduates who were in sustained employment in the associated tax year, and a graduate's industry is recorded as the industry in which they earnt the most in the associated tax year.
• SIC codes tell us the industry of the company that the graduate works for, and does NOT tell us about the graduates occupation within that company.
Please note that summed figures in the following text may differ slightly from figures in the table due to rounding.

Footnotes
1. Outcome percentages are rounded to the nearest 0.1%.
2. Earnings figures are rounded to the nearest £100
3. All populations are rounded to the nearest 5 full-person equivalent (FPE) individuals.
4. c = data has been supressed due to small numbers. x = there is no result available (N/A)
Caveats
• Data only includes graduates who were in sustained employment in the associated tax year, and a graduate's industry is recorded as the industry in which they earnt the most in the associated tax year.
• SIC codes tell us the industry of the company that the graduate works for, and does NOT tell us about the graduates occupation within that company.
• Please note there are a small number of cases where there are conflicting section names and group names – see the data quality section of the methodology for further details

Footnotes
1. Outcome percentages are rounded to the nearest 0.1%.
2. Earnings figures are rounded to the nearest £100
3. All populations are rounded to the nearest 5 full-person equivalent (FPE) individuals.
4. c = data has been supressed due to small numbers. x = there is no result available (N/A)
Caveats
• Data only includes graduates who were in sustained employment in the associated tax year, and a graduate's industry is recorded as the industry in which they earnt the most in the associated tax year.
• SIC codes tell us the industry of the company that the graduate works for, and does NOT tell us about the graduates occupation within that company.
• Please note there are a small number of cases where there are conflicting section names and group names – see the data quality section of the methodology for further details

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