Graduate Outcomes SOC 2020 update: UK, 2017/18

This bulletin has been produced by HESA and has been released according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.

The data presented in this bulletin is based on the 2017/18 Graduate Outcomes survey. The statistics in this bulletin are derived by HESA from data collected from all publicly funded HE providers in the UK (including The Open University), alternative providers that submit student data to HESA and further education colleges in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

For the 2017/18 release of Graduate Outcomes, the dataset was initially coded using SOC 2010, which was the current framework during census week for all four cohorts of the first year of data collection. SOC 2020, which updated the SOC framework to reflect a changing labour market, was released on 14 February 2020, after the SOC coding of 2017/18 data to SOC 2010 was largely complete. HESA rapidly analysed the new framework and determined that it was suitable for use with the Graduate Outcomes survey. Given the scale of work involved it was not possible to introduce SOC 2020 in time for the initial dissemination of the 2017/18 results.

In order to ensure that graduates are coded according to the most up-to-date framework, HESA committed to adopt SOC 2020 from the 2018/19 Graduate Outcomes dataset. At the same time, we undertook to recode the 2017/18 dataset to SOC 2020 to ensure a consistent time-series. We have now completed the work of re-basing our coding approach to follow the SOC 2020 framework, and have re-coded the data and quality-assured our results.

本公告由高等教育统计局（HESA）编制，并依照英国统计局（UK Statistics Authority）批准的安排发布。本公告所展示的数据源自于2017/18届毕业生就业情况调查。本公告中的统计数据由HESA从英国所有公立高等教育机构（包括开放大学）、向HESA提交学生数据的非传统教育提供者以及英格兰、威尔士和北爱尔兰的进一步教育学院收集而来。针对2017/18届毕业生就业情况的发布，数据集最初使用SOC 2010进行编码，这是数据收集首年四个年级在普查周期间所采用的现行框架。SOC 2020在2020年2月14日发布，它更新了SOC框架以反映不断变化的劳动力市场，在2017/18数据对SOC 2010的编码工作基本完成后。HESA迅速分析了新的框架，并确定其适用于毕业生就业情况调查。鉴于所涉及工作的规模，无法及时引入SOC 2020以用于2017/18结果的初次发布。为确保毕业生根据最新的框架进行编码，HESA承诺从2018/19届毕业生就业情况数据集开始采用SOC 2020。同时，我们承担了将2017/18数据集重新编码至SOC 2020的任务，以确保时间序列的一致性。我们现在已完成将编码方法重新基于SOC 2020框架的工作，并对数据进行重新编码，并对结果进行了质量保证。