Careers Wales | Pupil Destinations from schools in Wales 2012

Year 12 - Ethnicity

Ethnic minority groups made up 5% of the total Year 12 cohort.
However, ethnic data and analysis may be slightly skewed by the fact that 3% of the Year 12 cohort did not supply information on ethnicity. In addition the non-response/left area proportion is higher for leavers from minority ethnic groups.
Of those returning information on ethnicity:

The most popular choice of route across all groups was continuing in full time education.
A slightly higher percentage (1 percentage point more) of young people from white ethnic backgrounds chose to remain in full-time education.
The least popular route for all ethnicity groups was work based training with employed status and continued in education (less than 16 hours a week).
A higher percentage (1 percentage point difference) of those with white backgrounds fall into the employed category.
The NEET figure for those with white backgrounds and those from an ethinic minority background are very similar (2.6% and 2.7% respectively). However these figures may be slightly skewed by the fact that 3.6% of those whose ethnicity is unknown are NEET.

	White	%	Minority Ethnic Groups	%	No Information on Ethnicity	%	Total Entering this Route	%
Continuing in Full Time Education	13646	89.2	709	87.9	446	90.1	14801	89.2
Continuing in Part Time Education (less than 16 hours a week)	31	0.2	2	0.2	1	0.2	34	0.2
Work Based Training - Non employed status	431	2.8	19	2.4	2	0.4	452	2.7
Work Based Training - Employment status	134	0.9	2	0.2	2	0.4	138	0.8
Employed - Other	372	2.4	11	1.4	6	1.2	389	2.3
Known not be in Education, Training or Employment	401	2.6	22	2.7	18	3.6	441	2.7
No response to survey / Left the area	277	1.8	42	5.2	20	4.0	339	2.0
Total number in cohort	15292	100.0	807	100.0	495	100.0	16594	100
% of total cohort		92.1		4.9		3.0		100