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HESA Student Record 2013/14 - Socio-economic classification

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HESA Student Record 2013/14

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Socio-economic classification


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Typefield
Short nameSEC
Description

This field collects the socio-economic classification of students participating in HE if 21 or over at the start of their course or parental classification if under 21

Applicable toEngland Northern Ireland Scotland Wales
Coverage

All entrants where EntryProfile.UCASAPPID exists where Course.COURSEAIM begins with H, I, J or C or is M22, M26, M28 and EntryProfile.DOMICILE = XF, XG, XH, XI, XK, XL, GG, JE or IM

Valid entries and labels
CodeLabel
1Higher managerial & professional occupations
2Lower managerial & professional occupations
3Intermediate occupations
4Small employers & own account workers
5Lower supervisory & technical occupations
6Semi-routine occupations
7Routine occupations
8Never worked & long-term unemployed
9Not classified
Notes

This collects the socio-economic background of students aged 21 and over at the start of their course, or for students under 21 the socio-economic background of their parent, step-parent or guardian who earns the most. It is based on occupation, and if the parent or guardian is retired or unemployed, this is based on their most recent occupation.

Code 9 'Not classified' includes the 3 categories:

  • students
  • occupations not stated or inadequately described
  • not classifiable for other reasons.

For students entering through UCAS this information will be available from UCAS via the *J transaction.

Institutions are encouraged to provide this information for other full-time undergraduates in order to provide more complete statistical information for the sector.

A full coding frame for SEC can been obtained from the Office for National Statistics.

Quality rules
Quality rules relating to this field are displayed here.
Reason required

To classify the social background of students in a standard way. Used to monitor the impact of widening participation policies, and analyses relating to widening access and data quality.

Part of
Field length1
Minimum occurrences0
Maximum occurrences1
Schema components
Element: SEC
Data type: SECCodeContentType
Related fields
OwnerOffice for National Statistics
Version1.2
Date modified2014-04-29
Change management notesBusiness rule 1 updated for new Course.COURSEAIM code M28 being added to the coverage of the field.

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