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 "id": "level-3-by-19-england",
 "title": "Young people qualified to level 3 by age 19, England",
 "category": "education",
 "summary": "The share of young people in England qualified to level 3, to level 2 and to level 2 in English and maths by age 19, for each cohort since 2007/08, from the Department for Education.",
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  "The share of the young people who were 19 in each school year (the cohort aged 15 at its start four years before) who held a full level 3 qualification (two A levels or the equivalent) or a full level 2 qualification (five GCSEs at grades 9 to 4 or the equivalent) by then, wherever they studied, as the DfE counts them. Level 2 in English and maths, a GCSE at 9 to 4 or an equivalent in both, is the DfE's figure for the state-funded sector only, so its line counts a narrower cohort. The DfE's guidance says grades awarded by centre and teacher assessment in 2020 and 2021, and the adapted exams of 2022, bear on the cohorts who took them. The numbers qualified are in the record's JSON."
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T14:49:42Z",
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  "latest_period": "2024/25",
  "period_end": "2025-07-31",
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    "2010/11": 374074.0,
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    "2021/22": 376178.0,
    "2022/23": 382320.0,
    "2023/24": 383600.0,
    "2024/25": 390728.0
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   "Level 2 by age 19": {
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    "2008/09": 516515.0,
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    "2010/11": 551510.0,
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    "2022/23": 530716.0,
    "2023/24": 538104.0,
    "2024/25": 539071.0
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    "2011/12": 367532.0,
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    "2014/15": 394886.0,
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    "2017/18": 394445.0,
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    "2020/21": 383018.0,
    "2021/22": 407260.0,
    "2022/23": 437591.0,
    "2023/24": 437550.0,
    "2024/25": 430075.0
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  "accreditation": "Accredited official statistics: the DfE gives the release as accredited official statistics, as its release page's type says",
  "release": "Academic year 2024/25",
  "published": "2026-04-23"
 },
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  "label": "Qualified to level 3 by age 19",
  "value": 60.712,
  "period": "2024/25",
  "note": "level 2 83.8%; level 2 in English and maths 73.2% (state-funded sector)"
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