Third Party Data
HESA data supplies and publications often include derived data that makes use of third party data.
The purpose of this webpage is to identify the license/attributions for usage of third party data in derivations used by HESA or onwardly from our outputs.
For the purpose of this webpage third party data includes any data:
i) which is made available to, or licensed to, HESA or HESA Services Limited by a third party (for example, geographic information may include data from postcode lookup tables owned by the Office for National Statistics);
AND
ii) which is included in any HESA data supply or publication, including, but not limited to:
- HESA statistical publications about students in higher education, including National Statistics publications, statistical bulletins and open data releases (see Official statistics) and online business intelligence and research services;
- HESA data deliveries to statutory customers (see Statutory customers) and HESA subscribers (see Subscription model information);
- HESA data deliveries to higher education funding and regulatory bodies, public authorities and other organisations performing tasks carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller, or for statistical and research purposes;
- HESA data made available in Heidi Plus (Heidi Plus is operated by Jisc Services Limited on behalf of HESA Services Limited - see Jisc - Heidi Plus);
- HESA data delivered as a tailored dataset via Jisc Services Limited (see Jisc - Tailored Datasets and Data Sharing Register); and
- HESA data made available via the Office for National Statistics Secure Research Service.
The tables below lists third party data which falls into the above definition, and the attribution (and any other applicable terms) that should be given and complied with in onward use of that data.
For the avoidance of doubt, these tables do not include any third party data which is used by HESA (for example, to validate HESA data) but is not incorporated into any HESA data supply or publication.
For more information about how data compiled by HESA is used, please see the HESA Collection notices.
For specific information regarding which derived fields are contained within each HESA data collection, please see the relevant coding manual for each data collection available via the Data collection page.
Third party data uses contents
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Description |
Fields applicable |
License |
Attribution |
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Standard Industrial Classification |
XBUS2007SIC XBUS2007SIC1 XBUS2007SIC2 XEMP2007SIC XEMP2007SIC1 XEMP2007SIC2 XM2007SIC XM2007SIC1 XM2007SIC2 XWRK2007SIC XWRK2007SIC1 XWRK2007SIC2 |
Source: Office for National Statistics |
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Standard Occupational Classification |
XBUS2020SOC XBUS2020SOC1 XBUS2020SOC3 XEMP2020SOC XEMP2020SOC1 XEMP2020SOC3 XM2020SOC XM2020SOC1 XM2020SOC3 XWRK2020SOC XWRK2020SOC1 XWRK2020SOC3 XACTSOC01 XWRKHSKILL |
Source: Office for National Statistics |
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Joint Negotiating Committee for Higher Education Staff (JNCHES) Framework Pay Spine (F Points) |
XSALPNT01 |
Source : © Copyright UCU 2020 |
| Description | Fields applicable | License | Attribution |
| The tariff point scoring system is maintained by UCAS | XTPOINTS XTPOINTSGP01 XTARIFF XTARIFFGP01 ZALEV_HIGH_POINTS ZWB_POINTS ZPITARIFF Z_POINTS Z_TARIFFMRK Z_TARIFFBTECMRK Z_TARIFFIBMRK Z_TARIFF Z_TARIFFBTEC Z_TARIFFIB Z_TARIFFGRP[1 & 2] Z_ENTQUALHGRP1 Z_ENTQUALAGRP1 Z_ENTQUALAGRP2 |
CC BY 4.0 | Source: UCAS. Licensed subject to the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. |
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Description |
Fields applicable |
License |
Attribution |
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Postcodes mapped to UK counties and regions, unitary authorities and local government districts using Office for National Statistics (ONS) data |
XINSTC01 XINSTG01 XBUSLOCGR XBUSLOCN XBUSLOCUC XEMPLOCGR XEMPLOCN XEMPLOCUC ZBUSAREA ZBUSPCODE ZEMPAREA ZEMPPCODE XDOMGR01 XDOMGR401 XDOMHM01 XDOMREG01 XDOMUC01 XHOOS01 INSTCOU01 XINSTID01 Z_PROVIDERGRP[1-4] Z_PERMADDGRP[1-5] Z_PERMADDUC Z_PERMADDREGION Z_PERMADDLAUA Z_PERMADDCOUNTRY Z_NATIONGRP1 |
Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2020. |
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Geographical mappings for Northern Ireland |
Geographical mappings for Northern Ireland are based upon Crown Copyright and are reproduced with the permission of Land & Property Services under delegated authority from the Keeper of Public Records, © Crown copyright and database right 2020. NIMA MOU577.4 |
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Participation of Local Areas |
POLAR 2/3/4 |
Use of Royal Mail Postcode Address File data covered by PAF Public Sector Licence 05858
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Source: Office for Students Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2019 Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2019. Northern Ireland postcodes. |
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Country data supplied by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) |
XDOM01 XDOMGR01 XDOMGR401 XDOMHM01 XDOMREG01 XDOMUC01 XINSTCOU01 XINSTC01 XINSTG01 XNATGR01 XLOCN01 XLOCUC01 XBUSLOCGR XBUSLOCN XBUSLOCUC XEMPLOCGR XEMPLOCN XEMPLOCUC XHOMELOCGR XHOMELOCN XHOMELOCUC XWRKLOCGR XWRKLOCN XWRKLOCUC Z_PERMADDGRP[1-5] Z_PERMADDUC Z_PERMADDREGION Z_PERMADDLAUA Z_PERMADDCOUNTRY Z_NATIONGRP1 |
Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0 |
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National Statistics Country Classification (launched in 2006) |
XREGAG01 XBUSLOCUC XEMPLOCUC XHOMELOCUC XMLOCUC XSTULOCUC ZBUSCOUNTRY ZEMPCOUNTRY ZHOMECOUNTRY ZSTUCOUNTRY XSNAT01 XDOM01 XDOMGR01 XDOMGR401 XDOMHM01 XDOMREG01 XDOMUC01 XHOOS01 XNATGR01 Z_PERMADDGRP[1-5] Z_PERMADDUC Z_PERMADDREGION Z_PERMADDLAUA Z_PERMADDCOUNTRY Z_NATIONGRP1 |
Source: Office for National Statistics [This is based on ISO 3166-1 Codes for Representation of Names of Countries and their Subdivisions, and the United Nations’ Standard Country or Area Codes for Statistical Use. Where NSCC differs from ISO 3166-1, ISO 3166-1 usage is stated in brackets after the preferred UK usage.] |
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| Socioeconomic Index for Small Areas (SEISA) | SEISA_PROPORTION SEISA_DECILE_UK SEISA_DECILE_ENGLAND SEISA_DECILE_WALES SEISA_DECILE_SCOTLAND SEISA_DECILE_NORTHERN_IRELAND |
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
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Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency |
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Heidi Plus Dashboard |
Third Party |
Description |
Attribution |
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COVID-19 recovery planning |
UNESCO |
UNESCO international student flow |
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics |
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Provider Health Check |
National Student Survey |
National Student Survey Results (NSS) |
Source: Acknowledged as HEFCE, HEFCW, SFC, DfE(NI) and NCTL The data source organisations are not responsible for uses or presentations of the data made by third parties. See National Student Survey on the Office for Students website. |
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League Table Comparison, Provider Health Check |
The Guardian |
Guardian League Tables data |
Source: The Guardian University Guide data courtesy of Guardian News & Media Ltd. Reproduced with permission. All rights reserved. Guardian University Guide |
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League Table Comparison |
The Times |
The Times/ Sunday Times League Tables data |
Source: The Sunday Times Good University Guide data courtesy of Times Newspapers Limited. Reproduced with permission. All rights reserved. Good University Guide |
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Provider Heath Check |
QAA |
QAA Higher Education Review (HER) |
Source: QAA |
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Provider Heath Check |
TEF |
TEF Year Two |
Source: HEFCE 2017. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. |
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Description |
Fields applicable |
License |
Attribution |
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UK provider registration numbers made available by the UK Register of Learning Providers at https://www.ukrlp.co.uk/ |
ZSTUPROV UNISTATS_TPROV |
Source: © Crown Copyright Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. A link to the Open Government Licence v.3.0 should also be included where possible. |
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Carbon emissions from grid electricity |
E12CEGE |
Source: © Crown Copyright Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. A link to the Open Government Licence v.3.0 should also be included where possible. |