This site uses cookies

Some of these cookies are essential, while others help us to improve your experience by providing insights into how the site is being used.

For more detailed information please check our Cookie notice.

Necessary cookies

Necessary cookies enable core functionality. This website cannot function properly without these cookies.

Cookies that measure website use

If you provide permission, we will use Google Analytics to measure how you use the website so we can improve it based on our understanding of user needs. Google Analytics sets cookies that store anonymised information about how you got to the site, the pages you visit, how long you spend on each page and what you click on while you're visiting the site.

 

Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Quarterly Labour Force Survey, October - December, 2012

Variable Details

VariableQULHI11
LabelHighest qualification currently studying for
Question text What qualifications are you studying for?
Responses
1 DEGREE LEVEL INC PGCE, GRAD MSHIP 2948
2 DIPLOMA IN HE 179
3 HNC/HND 138
4 ONC/OND 13
5 BTEC/BECTEC 467
6 SCOTVEC/SCOTEC/SCOTBEC 1
7 TEACHING QUAL (EXC PGCE) 48
8 NURSING OR OTHER MEDICAL QUAL 90
9 OTHER HE QUALS BELOW DEGREE LEVEL 75
10 A-LEVEL/VOC A-LEVEL 1071
11 NEW DIPLOMA 67
12 WELSH BAC 0
13 INTERNATIONAL BAC 13
14 NVQ/SVQ 1066
15 GNVQ/GSVQ 19
16 AS-LEVEL/VOC AS-LEVEL 208
17 CSYS 1
18 ACCESS TO HE 34
20 STANDARD/O GRADE/LOWER 10
21 GCSE/VOC GCSE 423
23 ADV HIGHER/HIGHER/INTER/ACCESS 106
24 RSA/OCR 7
25 CITY AND GUILDS 146
27 KEY SKILLS/CORE SKILLS 6
28 BASIC SKILLS 132
29 ENTRY LEVEL QUALS 33
30 AWARD/CERTIFICATE/DIPLOMA (ENTRYL1-8) 69
31 OTHER PROF/WORK QUALIFICATION 1480
-9 Does not apply 89509
-8 No answer 106
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationQuarterly Labour Force Survey, October - December, 2012
Interviewer InstructionsPROMPT AS NECESSARY CODE HIGHEST
UniverseAll persons normally resident in private households in Great Britain and (from 1994) Northern Ireland.;Households;National
SamplingSimple random sample;Four sampling frames are used. See documentation for details.
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study; Data are collected quarterly
UKRI logo

Funded by UKRI through the ESRC with contributions from our partners.

© 2025 UK Data Service
We are supported by the University of Essex, University of Manchester, Jisc, UCL and University of Edinburgh. We are funded by UKRI through the Economic and Social Research Council.