§ Lynne JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of people aged under 25 years from each socio-economic group participated in higher education in each of the last 12 years. [65793]
§ Margaret HodgeInformation is not available exactly as requested. The available information relates to the social class breakdown of the Age Participation Index (API) from 1990 to 2000, and is shown in the table. The API is defined as the number of UK domiciled under
Participation in higher education by social class Percentage Academic year beginning: Social class 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 I Professional —1 55 71 73 78 80 82 79 72 73 76 II Intermediate —1 36 39 42 45 46 47 48 45 45 48 IIIN Skilled non manual —1 22 27 29 31 31 32 31 29 30 33 IIIM Skilled manual —1 11 15 17 18 18 18 19 18 18 19 IV Partly skilled —1 10 14 16 17 17 17 18 17 17 19 V Unskilled —1 6 9 11 11 12 13 14 13 13 14 I to IIIN 37 35 40 43 46 47 48 48 45 45 48 IIIM to V 10 11 14 16 17 17 18 18 17 17 18 All classes 19 23 28 30 32 32 33 33 31 32 33 1Not available.