Essential Skills Enrolment and Performance Statistics, 2002-2015

OpenDataNI provides data on enrolments and performance for the Essential Skills programme in Northern Ireland. The dataset covers the period from the strategy's start in 2002 through the 2014/15 academic year. It includes enrolment numbers by subject and characteristics of those enrolling.

Use Cases

• Analyzing enrolment trends over time based on the 2002-2015 coverage
• Studying demographic characteristics of programme participants based on enrollee details
• Evaluating programme performance and outcomes based on performance statistics

Strengths

• Covers over 12 years of programme data from 2002 to 2014/15
• Includes multiple data facets: enrolment counts, participant characteristics, and performance statistics

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

OpenDataNI

Collection Method

Administrative records from the Essential Skills programme

Time Range

2002 - 2014/15

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:28.564033; freshness should be verified

Geography

Likely Northern Ireland, based on the source organization OpenDataNI