Notes: Spring quarter each year.
Percentage with level 2 qualifications, for example 5 GCSEs at grade C or above.
Percentage with level 2 qualifications, for example 5 GCSEs at grade C or above.
| Change since | |
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1970 |
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1990 |
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1999 |
Coverage: United Kingdom
Source: DfES
- The percentage of 19 year-olds with level 2 qualifications (e.g. five GCSEs at grades C or above, NVQ level 2 or equivalent) was 76.1 per cent in 2003 compared with 52.0 per cent in 1990
- At present, just under a quarter of young people do not achieve qualifications equivalent to level 2 by the age of 19, and a small minority, 7.4 per cent, achieve no qualifications at all by this age.