You asked
Please provide the "Student and graduate employment, Annual Population Survey" for each year going back to 1980.
We said
Thank you for your enquiry into student and graduate employment statistics from the Annual Population Survey (APS) from 1980.
Estimates of graduate employment from the Labour Force Survey have been produced as part of the Graduates in the Labour Market release;
However, no such estimates have been produced from the APS. Also, no estimates have been produced for the number of students in employment.
It would be possible to request specific analysis from our social surveys team. Please note that there may be a charge for this service depending on the amount of time taken to develop the analysis and undertake quality and disclosure control processes;
https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/whatwedo/statistics/requestingstatistics/makingarequest
If you choose to request a detailed analysis produced, it should be remembered that the level of detail requested will affect the quality of any statistics produced.
It should be noted that the APS was only launched in 2004. Whilst some information may be available from its predecessors: the Local Area Labour Force Survey and Annual Labour Force Survey, this is less detailed than information available from the APS.
As this information is already available to you via this route we considers that s.21(1) applies to this request and the information does not have to be supplied under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act. S.21(1) is an absolute exemption and no consideration of the public interest test needs to be applied.