About this dataset

This dataset provides Census 2021 estimates that classify all usual residents aged 5 years and over in England and Wales by whether they are full-time students by age. The estimates are as at Census Day, 21 March 2021. Census Day, 21 March 2021, was partway through the academic year. This means that when analysing younger age groups, particularly people aged 16 to 21 years, there will be split age cohorts across different stages of education. Take care when interpreting census estimates of students across these boundaries.

Protecting personal data

Sometimes we need to make changes to data if it is possible to identify individuals. This is known as statistical disclosure control. In Census 2021, we:

• Swapped records (targeted record swapping), for example, if a household was likely to be identified in datasets because it has unusual characteristics, we swapped the record with a similar one from a nearby small area. Very unusual households could be swapped with one in a nearby local authority.
• Added small changes to some counts (cell key perturbation), for example, we might change a count of four to a three or a five. This might make small differences between tables depending on how the data are broken down when we applied perturbation.

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