Employment and unemployment by educational degree

You asked

Would like to make a freedom of information request to your team. I am ideally looking for data on the three variables below below going back the last 10 years:

1. Employment by occupation by educational degree (educational degree meaning for example, BA in English, Bsc in computer science)

2. Unemployment by educational degree

3. Unemployment by educational degree by occupation

When it comes to occupation and the different educational degrees, as granular information as possible be useful. I am aware that these variables are more detailed than what is publicly available, but any additional information you have on this would be very much appreciated.

We said

The information you have requested can be obtained from the customer services team of ONS Social Survey division. Special extracts and tabulations of Labour Force Survey (LFS) and Annual Population Survey (APS) data are available to order (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, where appropriate). As this information is already available to you via this route ONS considers that S21(1) applies to this request and the information does not have to be supplied under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act. S21(1) is an absolute exemption and no consideration of the public interest test needs to be applied.

I have found some links to ad hoc requests that relate to your query, but may not contain the exact information you are looking for. If you require more detail than that contained in the links below, there are two options that you can pursue.

1. If you are able to carry out your own analysis of the LFS/APS data then please see information below regarding the UK Data Service

2. A bespoke commissioned table could be produced for you from the LFS/APS data for which there could be a charge (see 'Bespoke Commissioned Tables Service' section attached)

Employment by occupations, regions and higher education Jan-Dec 2013

In Employment with Higher Education or Post Graduate qualification 2003, 2008 and 2013

Highest educational attainment of unemployed people aged 16-64, by duration of unemployment 2008-2013

Time series analysis for employment/unemployment count/rate cross referenced with highest qualification, sex, ethnicity, family type and NS-SEC major group by duration of unemployed. July 07/June08 to July 13/July14

UK Data Service

If you are able to do your own cross-tabulations you could purchase an anonymised Labour Force Survey (LFS) and Annual Population Survey (APS) datasets from the UK Data Service. Details on costs and how to download the data can be found on their website:
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Bespoke Commissioned Tables Service

If you would like to enquire about our service then please contact socialsurveys@ons.gov.uk
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