Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students have taken A Level Music by ethnic group in each year since 2010.
The total entries in each year are provided in the below table: [1], [2], [3], [4]
Ethnicity[5] | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017[5] |
White | 3,701 | 3,501 | 3,215 | 3,034 | 2,930 | 2,466 | 2,604 |
Mixed | 112 | 114 | 119 | 146 | 128 | 138 | 128 |
Asian | 47 | 42 | 39 | 53 | 32 | 53 | 44 |
Black | 75 | 70 | 65 | 54 | 64 | 56 | 54 |
Chinese | 30 | 32 | 29 | 50 | 41 | 28 | 28 |
Any other ethnic group | 20 | 27 | 29 | 22 | 31 | 18 | 23 |
Unknown ethnicity[6] | 1,251 | 1,246 | 1,153 | 1,184 | 1,122 | 1,025 | 1,052 |
Total | 5,236 | 5,032 | 4,649 | 4,543 | 4,348 | 3,784 | 3,933 |
Information is not available for 2010
[1] For 2010/11 – 2015/16 - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/a-level-attainment-by-pupil-characteristics. For 2016/17 - https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-16-to-18-results-2016-to-2017-revised (open the ‘A level exam results and A level and vocational participation csv’ and then the ‘A level subjects by characteristics’ file).
[2] Figures are based on final data.
[3] Students, at the end of their 16-18 study, who entered A level music.
[4] Includes entries into A level music qualifications which are eligible for inclusion in performance tables. Where qualifications taken by a student are in the same subject area and similar in content, ‘discounting’ rules have been applied to avoid double counting qualifications.
[5] The methodology through which students ethnicity is identified was changed in 2016/17. Up to 2015/16 a student’s ethnicity was taken from their census record three years prior to the academic year the figures are reported for. In 2016/17 a student’s ethnicity is taken from the census record of their final year of key stage 4 study (normally, three years prior). Due to this change, 2016/17 figures can not be compared to earlier years.
[6] A student’s ethnicity may be unknown for several reasons, including if they attended an independent secondary school (which do not complete the school census).