Downley Ward : Age at Termination of Education

Age at Termination of Education

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Qualifications Held 2001 2011 2021
No academic qualifications 2,276 Show data context 2,364 Show data context
1-4 GCSE/O-Levels, etc 1,366 Show data context 1,124 Show data context 865 Show data context
5+ GCSE/O-Levels, etc 1,672 Show data context 1,422 Show data context 1,264 Show data context
2+ A-Levels, etc 740 Show data context 1,285 Show data context 1,727 Show data context
Degree 1,659 Show data context 2,585 Show data context 3,524 Show data context
Date Source
2001 Office for National Statistics, NOMIS - Official Census and Labour Market Statistics (Table UV024, Qualifications (6 way))
2011 Office for National Statistics, NOMIS - Official Census and Labour Market Statistics (Table QS501UK - Highest level of qualification)
2021 Office for National Statistics, ONS "Create a Custom Dataset" (Highest level of qualification (8 way))

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This classification is designed to permit data from the 1801 Crop Returns to be included with data from the annual Agricultural Census from 1866 onwards. The 1801 Returns were highly simplified, and varied in what they reported from one parish to another, so in practice we can consistently identify only three individual crops (wheat, rye and potatoes) and two pairings ("Barley and Oats", and "Peas and Beans"). Everything else has to be included in "Other". The 1801 returns also provided limited geographical cov...


erage: a great many parishes were missing from the data, and some additional parish names could not be identified, matched more than one parish within the named county, or lacked information on the county they were in. Nottinghamshire is completely missing. County totals include data for parishes that could not be identified. The national total for England includes parishes with missing county information. The national total for England is also used as the total for England and Wales, to permit the web site to present comparisons with national totals, even though the 1801 returns contain no data on Wales.


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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Downley Ward through time | Historical Statistics on Learning & Language | Age at Termination of Education, A Vision of Britain through Time.

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Date accessed: 01st August 2026