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Education and Skills in Your Area - Government Office Region: East of England

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Adult Education

Percentage of People of Working Age Qualified to at least Level 2 Metadata

2000/012006/07% points difference
Babergh District64.272.68.4
Basildon District50.356.56.2
Bedford District63.665.72.1
Braintree District57.365.78.4
Breckland District59.157.8-1.3
Brentwood District70.773.22.5
Broadland District6566.21.2
Broxbourne District64.973.68.7
Cambridge District72.572-0.5
Castle Point District62.359.9-2.4
Chelmsford District67.773.25.5
Colchester District66.168.32.2
Dacorum District67.973.45.5
East Cambridgeshire District61.37311.7
East Hertfordshire District69.8755.2
Epping Forest District62.859.9-2.9
Fenland District50.3609.7
Forest Heath District51.964.112.2
Great Yarmouth District52.663.110.5
Harlow District48.5578.5
Hertsmere District63.5717.5
Huntingdonshire District64.573.59.0
Ipswich District53.262.99.7
King's Lynn and West Norfolk District53.8639.2
Luton District58.855.8-3.0
Maldon District67.458.1-9.3
Mid Bedfordshire District69.369-0.3
Mid Suffolk District75.572.7-2.8
North Hertfordshire District70.376.56.2
North Norfolk District58.459.81.4
Norwich District64.769.14.4
Peterborough District60.761.30.6
Rochford District67.367.30.0
South Bedfordshire District68.367.7-0.6
South Cambridgeshire District63.373.510.2
South Norfolk District62.668.66.0
Southend-on-Sea District61.8631.2
St Albans District7884.26.2
St. Edmundsbury District59.366.37.0
Stevenage District61.566.95.4
Suffolk Coastal District65.964.3-1.6
Tendring District50.749.6-1.1
Three Rivers District75.372.3-3.0
Thurrock District54.154.80.7
Uttlesford District67.871.43.6
Watford District69.573.74.2
Waveney District63.358.5-4.8
Welwyn Hatfield District66.269.43.2
East of England Region6366.43.4
England63.368.24.9

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Percentage of People of Working Age Qualified to Level 4 and above Metadata

2000/012006/07% points difference
Babergh District23.727.53.8
Basildon District11.317.36.0
Bedford District23.225.62.4
Braintree District19.222.73.5
Breckland District13163.0
Brentwood District25.628.63.0
Broadland District20.423.43.0
Broxbourne District19.329.910.6
Cambridge District44.743.6-1.1
Castle Point District12.416.84.4
Chelmsford District23.232.69.4
Colchester District25.3304.7
Dacorum District27.136.89.7
East Cambridgeshire District22.239.317.1
East Hertfordshire District33.834.50.7
Epping Forest District21.919.6-2.3
Fenland District916.17.1
Forest Heath District11.615.33.7
Great Yarmouth District12.615.83.2
Harlow District11.621.49.8
Hertsmere District24.730.35.6
Huntingdonshire District22.730.88.1
Ipswich District16.821.85.0
King's Lynn and West Norfolk District1415.81.8
Luton District1920.51.5
Maldon District22.218.8-3.4
Mid Bedfordshire District32.726.6-6.1
Mid Suffolk District27.4291.6
North Hertfordshire District28.540.612.1
North Norfolk District16226.0
Norwich District21.431.710.3
Peterborough District17.320.63.3
Rochford District16.925.38.4
South Bedfordshire District26.221.5-4.7
South Cambridgeshire District264115.0
South Norfolk District22.7296.3
Southend-on-Sea District17.118.91.8
St Albans District44.147.13.0
St. Edmundsbury District23.624.71.1
Stevenage District18.520.41.9
Suffolk Coastal District27.323-4.3
Tendring District11.312.51.2
Three Rivers District32.331-1.3
Thurrock District12.214.22.0
Uttlesford District18.833.614.8
Watford District26.131.35.2
Waveney District14.617.63.0
Welwyn Hatfield District36.628.7-7.9
East of England Region22264.0
England23.528.34.8

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National Summary

The percentage of people of working age who were qualified to at least Level 2 in 2006/07 was 68.2 per cent this is up from 63.3 per cent in 2000/01.

The percentage of people of working age who were qualified to Level 4 and above in 2006/07 was 28.3 per cent this is up from 23.5 per cent in 2000/01.


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