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Grading and Admissions Data England UCAS

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Summary

Deidentified data linking Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation, Department for Education, and Universities and Colleges Admissions Service data.

Description

Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) data is based on the information gathered to operate the university admissions process. This includes data submitted by applicants to the UCAS undergraduate scheme and by the Higher Education (HE) institution receiving prospective students applications. UCAS data features three main data tables. The applicant dataset contains information on applicants to the UCAS undergraduate scheme. For each applicant, this dataset includes data on demographic characteristics (eg gender, age, geographical region) and socio economic characteristics (eg ethnicity, socio-economic background, deprivation index). The apply qualifications dataset is at qualification level and contains information on qualifications declared by the applicant during their application. Crucially, this includes the A level grades predicted by teachers. The applications dataset contains the data included in the application made by each applicant, the offer made by each HE provider and the response from the applicant. This allows researchers to have access to a wealth of data, including: the applications that did not receive an offer, if an offer was received which kind of offer (eg unconditional, conditional) was made, whether each offer was accepted as a firm or insurance offer.

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About this data

Data creator
Universities and Colleges Admissions Service
Temporal coverage
01 January 2017 to 31 December 2022
Frequency
Annual
Dataset theme
Education
Restrictions for access
Access for all accredited researchers
Project approval
Projects must be accredited
Search keywords
Demography Education Higher education ADR Children and Young People

Metadata

Metadata

Dataset themeMain category for the topic of the resource
Education
Dataset resource typeThe type of the dataset resource
Administrative
Geographic coverageThe geographic area covered by the dataset
England
Temporal coverageThe timeframes covered by these data
01 January 2017 to 31 December 2022
FrequencyThe frequency at which the dataset resource is published or updated
Annual
Geographic levelThe lowest level of geography covered by the dataset
County
Data creatorThe name of the organisation that produced or published this resource
Universities and Colleges Admissions Service
Data contributorsThe name(s) of any organisation(s), other than the data supplier or provider, that have data which are included in this dataset resource
Licensing statusThe license used for making this resource available and defining how it can be used
Restricted
Disclosure controlThe standard or bespoke disclosure control rules that apply to this dataset
Standard disclosure rules apply
Restrictions for accessRestrictions for users and researchers accessing data in Google Cloud Platform
Access for all accredited researchers
Research outputsThe approval route researchers must take for their outputs to be published
Research outputs must be sent to the data owner
Project approvalThe project approvals needed for this resource
Projects must be accredited
Research disclaimerThe disclaimer required to be published with the outputs for this dataset
No requirements
AcronymAny other names or acronyms used to refer to the data
GRADE
IDS Business Catalogue identifierThe identifier for this dataset resource
0.0295
ProvenanceDetails of how this dataset resource came to be generated
Universities and Colleges Admissions Service Grading and Admissions Data