"Figure 6: Percentage of the undergraduate student population in employment by ethnic group for UK-domiciled and non-UK-domiciled students, England and Wales","" "Tax years ending 2015 and 2016, men and women, aged 16 and over","" "","" "Notes","1. These Research Outputs are not official statistics on student employment. 2. Data source: Pay As You Earn (PAYE) data from HM Revenue and Customs and student record data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). As the outputs are limited to these data sources, self-employed students are not classified as employed. 3. Students were only included in the analysis if they were present on SPD V2.0 2015. For further information on the methodology, see [section 5](https://www.ons.gov.uk/census/censustransformationprogramme/administrativedatacensusproject/administrativedatacensusresearchoutputs/populationcharacteristics/researchoutputsinvestigatingtheeconomicactivityofundergraduatestudentsusingadministrativedata#how-did-we-determine-whether-a-student-was-employed). 4. Only undergraduate students aged 16 and over who were not in their first or last year of study during the academic year ending 2015 were included in the analysis. For further information on the methodology, see [section 5](https://www.ons.gov.uk/census/censustransformationprogramme/administrativedatacensusproject/administrativedatacensusresearchoutputs/populationcharacteristics/researchoutputsinvestigatingtheeconomicactivityofundergraduatestudentsusingadministrativedata#how-did-we-determine-whether-a-student-was-employed). 5. Ethnic groups marked with an asterisk have small counts (less than 100 in at least one group) and should be interpreted with caution. 6. The term domicile refers to a student’s normal residence prior to commencing their Higher Education study. This may differ from their nationality. 7. Information on ethnic group was available for 76% of non-UK-domiciled students and 99% of UK-domiciled students in the HESA data." "Unit","%" "","" "Ethnicity","UK-domiciled","Non-UK-domiciled" "White","80.0","39.5" "Asian / Asian British - Indian","67.2","39.0" "Asian / Asian British - Pakistani","62.4","45.6" "Asian / Asian British - Bangladeshi*","68.6","77.0" "Asian / Asian British - Chinese","53.3","11.2" "Other Asian background","65.6","25.3" "Black / Black British - African","78.4","44.9" "Black / Black British - Caribbean*","80.4","42.3" "Other Black background","76.7","44.1" "Other ethnic group (including mixed ethnicity)","71.0","23.0" "Unknown","68.1","27.7"