This dataset provides 2001 Census estimates that classify professional qualifications held by people aged 16 to 74 in England and Wales by employment activity and sex and professional qualifications by occupation. The estimates are as at census day, 29 April 2001.

This table shows the number of people with each type of qualification. Therefore people can appear in the table multiple times.

'Occupation not coded' includes people aged 65 to 74 not working in the week before the Census and people aged 16 to 64 who last worked before 1996.

The occupations are defined using the Standard Occupational Classification 2000 as follows: Teaching professionals: SOC231; Nurse, midwife, health visitor: SOC3211, 3212; Other health associate professionals and therapists: SOC3213-3218, SOC3221-3229; Medical practitioners: SOC2211; Dental practitioners: SOC2215.

Figures have been randomly adjusted to avoid the release of confidential data