Socio-Economic Indicator: Field
Definition
To identify the socio-economic classification of learners participating in HE.
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.
Schema Definitions
- XML Entity Name
- SEC
- Field Length
- 1
- Data type
- xs:int
- Minimum occurrences
- 0
- Maximum occurrences
- 1
- Part of
- LearningDeliveryHE
Collection Requirements
- Learners entering through UCAS
Attribute Codes
| Code | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | Higher managerial and professional occupations |
| 2 | Lower managerial and professional occupations |
| 3 | Intermediate occupations |
| 4 | Small employers and own-account workers |
| 5 | Lower supervisory and technical occupations |
| 6 | Semi-routine occupations |
| 7 | Routine occupations |
| 8 | Never worked and long term unemployed |
| 9 | Not classified |
Notes
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For full guidance about this field, please refer to the HESA specification.
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Code 9 'Not classified' includes the 3 categories:
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students
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occupations not stated or inadequately described
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not classifiable for other reasons.
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For students entering through UCAS this information will be available from UCAS via the *J transaction.
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Institutions are encouraged to provide this information for other full-time undergraduates in order to provide more complete statistical information for the sector.
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A full coding frame for SEC can been obtained from the Office for National Statistics.
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This field is not required for students who are still at the institution and have not completed their programme of study since the previous collection or is not a UCAS entrant.