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Data Provider: Welsh Government Provider learners by age, gender and disability status
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Academic yearAcademic years run from 1 August of the initial year to 31 July of the following year.[Filtered]
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[Collapse]ProviderThis dimension gives the provider with whom the learner is studying. Data for further education (FE) institutions includes work-based learning provision on a consortium member basis and local authority community learning (LACL) where there is a formal enrolment with the FE institution. The remainder of the providers are split between LACL and WBL providers, with the latter being grouped together as other training providers.[Filtered]
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[Collapse]LDD statusThis dimension indicates whether the learner has a learning difficulty or disability (LDD), and is based on the learner\'s own assessment of their health. Only learners who have an LDD which impacts on their ability to learn and/or use facilities of a kind generally supplied by the learning provider are classed as having an LDD. Any learners identifying as having an LDD without specifying the type are counted as having an LDD in this report.[Filter]
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[Collapse]Age groupThis dimension gives the age of the learner at 31 August of the academic year. [Filter]
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Gender 1
[Collapse]All learnersIncludes instances where the learning difficulty or disability status is unknown.Click here to sortAll learnersIncludes instances where the learning difficulty or disability status is unknown.
Click here to sortNo learning difficulty or disabilityClick here to sortWith learning difficulty or disabilityFor 2013/14 onwards, includes instances where the learner considers themselves to have a learning difficulty and/or disability but the type is not known or not declared.Click here to sortNot known
[Collapse]All agesIncludes instances where the age is unspecified.152,16523,395.The data item is not applicable175,560
All agesIncludes instances where the age is unspecified.Under 16[Collapse]All learnersThe all persons total includes a small number of learners not identifying as male or female.11010.The data item is not applicable120
All learnersThe all persons total includes a small number of learners not identifying as male or female.Male655.The data item is not applicable70
Female455.The data item is not applicable50
16[Collapse]All learnersThe all persons total includes a small number of learners not identifying as male or female.16,8153,425.The data item is not applicable20,240
All learnersThe all persons total includes a small number of learners not identifying as male or female.Male8,6551,840.The data item is not applicable10,495
Female8,0251,475.The data item is not applicable9,500
17[Collapse]All learnersThe all persons total includes a small number of learners not identifying as male or female.14,9053,120.The data item is not applicable18,025
All learnersThe all persons total includes a small number of learners not identifying as male or female.Male7,7351,720.The data item is not applicable9,455
Female7,0051,300.The data item is not applicable8,305
18[Collapse]All learnersThe all persons total includes a small number of learners not identifying as male or female.8,3052,095.The data item is not applicable10,400
All learnersThe all persons total includes a small number of learners not identifying as male or female.Male4,7151,155.The data item is not applicable5,870
Female3,520880.The data item is not applicable4,400
19[Collapse]All learnersThe all persons total includes a small number of learners not identifying as male or female.5,1951,400.The data item is not applicable6,595
All learnersThe all persons total includes a small number of learners not identifying as male or female.Male3,035795.The data item is not applicable3,830
Female2,125565.The data item is not applicable2,685
20 - 24[Collapse]All learnersThe all persons total includes a small number of learners not identifying as male or female.16,7703,475.The data item is not applicable20,245
All learnersThe all persons total includes a small number of learners not identifying as male or female.Male8,6501,795.The data item is not applicable10,445
Female8,0551,630.The data item is not applicable9,685
25 - 49[Collapse]All learnersThe all persons total includes a small number of learners not identifying as male or female.68,5657,405.The data item is not applicable75,965
All learnersThe all persons total includes a small number of learners not identifying as male or female.Male27,6502,935.The data item is not applicable30,590
Female40,7454,405.The data item is not applicable45,150
50 - 64[Collapse]All learnersThe all persons total includes a small number of learners not identifying as male or female.16,9301,880.The data item is not applicable18,805
All learnersThe all persons total includes a small number of learners not identifying as male or female.Male6,375665.The data item is not applicable7,040
Female10,5151,210.The data item is not applicable11,725
65 and over[Collapse]All learnersThe all persons total includes a small number of learners not identifying as male or female.4,550590.The data item is not applicable5,135
All learnersThe all persons total includes a small number of learners not identifying as male or female.Male1,390195.The data item is not applicable1,585
Female3,140395.The data item is not applicable3,535
Unspecified[Collapse]All learnersThe all persons total includes a small number of learners not identifying as male or female.25*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication.The data item is not applicable25
All learnersThe all persons total includes a small number of learners not identifying as male or female.Male*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication*The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication.The data item is not applicable5
Female20.The data item is not applicable.The data item is not applicable20

Metadata

Title

Provider learners in further education and work-based learning in Wales

Last update

27 February 2025 27 February 2025

Next update

February 2026

Publishing organisation

Medr

Source 1

Lifelong Learning Wales Record, Welsh Government

Contact email

Statistics@medr.cymru

Designation

National Statistics

Lowest level of geographical disaggregation

Local authorities

Geographical coverage

Wales

Languages covered

English only

Data licensing

You may use and re-use this data free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government License - see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence

General description

This table provides the number of post-16 learners (excluding those enrolled at higher education institutions and school sixth forms) attending institutions in Wales.

Learner counts are based on providers' own learner identifiers and therefore the total learners across all providers will include some multiple-counting between providers.

All figures are rounded to the nearest multiple of 5. Any values greater than 0 and less than 5 have been suppressed and replaced with an asterisk (*)

Data collection and calculation

From 2016/17 onwards all data in the table is calculated using the month 5 freeze of the Lifelong Learning Wales Record (LLWR). This freeze is produced close to the end of the December after the academic year in question finishes. For example, the freeze containing the 2023/24 data was taken close to the end of December 2024.
Prior to 2016/17 data in the table was calculated using the month 7 freeze of the Lifelong Learning Wales Record (LLWR). This freeze was produced close to the end of the February after the academic year in question finishes. For example, the freeze containing the 2015/16 data was taken close to the end of February 2017.

Frequency of publication

Annual

Data reference periods

Data in the table is presented on an academic year basis, which runs from 1st August - 31st July.

Users, uses and context

The data in this table are used both within and outside Medr to monitor educational trends and as a baseline for further analysis of the underlying data. Some of the key users are:

Ministers and the Members Research Service in the National Assembly for Wales
Officials in the Welsh Government
Other government departments
Further Education Institutions, Work-Based Learning providers and local authorities
Estyn, His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Education and Training in Wales
Students, researchers, and academics
Individual citizens, private companies, and the media

These statistics are used in a variety of ways. Some examples of these are:

General background and research
Inclusion in reports and briefings
Advice to Ministers
Informing and evaluating the education policy-making process in Wales

LLWR data are used to underpin funding and performance reports for learning providers, to calculate NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training) figures and in student finance modelling.

Rounding applied

All figures in the table have been rounded to the closest multiple of 5. All non-zero values less than 5 have been suppressed and are denoted by an asterisk (*).

Keywords

Learning Network Analysis Lifelong Learning Wales Record LLWR Further Education FE Community Learning ACL LACL Work Based Learning WBL Post 16 P16

Statistical quality

Adult learning statistics were revised for 2023/24 due to data quality issues. One local authority had been submitting learning to the Lifelong Learning Wales Record (LLWR) which should not have been included. The correct data for the 2023/24 academic year has been manually identified by the local authority. The investigation revealed that these data quality issues also existed in previous years, these have not been corrected.

Local Authority Community Learning statistics for all years before 2023/24 are likely to be overcounted. As a result, figures from 2023/24 that include Local Authority Community Learning data are not comparable to previous years.

Please see the quality and information section of the report Sta/Medr/06/2025: Further education, work-based learning and community learning, August 2023 to July 2024 - Medr for more information.
https://www.medr.cymru/en/News/sta-medr-06-2025-further-education-work-based-learning-and-community-learning-august-2023-to-july-2024/

Statisticians within Medr review the data and query any anomalies with the LLWR data collection team and, where relevant, with learning providers before tables are published. The LLWR data underlying this table are intended to be final, for non-funding purposes.