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ILR-WPLS Matched Database
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Individualised Learner Record (ILR)
• Details of learners in the FE sector and their
learning aims
• Available from 2001/02
• Can be considered a census of publicly-funded
FE provision
• Contains details of some privately funded
provision
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Issues with ILR
• No person identifier
• No concept of a learning start date and end
date- has to be inferred from learning aim start
and end dates
• Missing reference data for some learning aims
although this has improved over time
• Missing end dates for around 2% of learning
aims
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Work and Pensions Longitudinal
Study (WPLS)
• Matched data resource created by DWP
• Mostly consists of dates on which events occurred
• Benefit histories (from 1999/2000)
• PAYE Employment (P45) data (from 1999/2000)
• Earnings from employment data (from 2004/05)
• In principle, we can observe whether an individual
on any given day
– Was in employment
– Was in receipt of out-of-work benefits
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Number of benefits started by tax year
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Issues with WPLS
• Missing data– Missing (or default) start and end dates in
employment data
– ‘Earnings’ (dividends) unobserved for the self-employed
– Earnings do not have to be reported for those earning below the lower tax threshold
– End dates for benefits not measured precisely
• Error arising from matching of HMRC to DWP data
• All may be improved in future by RTI
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ILR-WPLS
• ILR records to WPLS identifiers
• Matching undertaken by DWP
• Relatively high rate of ILR records not matched
to WPLS
– Around 20% to 25% for FE funding stream
– Around 8% to 12% for WBL funding stream
– Match rates much lower for under 19s
• Linkage error will affect results
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Default employment dates
• Many spells have uncertain start and/ or end
dates
– 6th April start
– 5th April end
– Spells lasting 0 or 1 day
– Start date is missing
– End date is missing
• 34% of cases affected
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Examples
Person Start Date End Date
A 6th April 2005 28th October 2007
B 11th November 2009 5th April 2010
C 19th June 2012 20th June 2012
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Solution
• For employment spells with uncertain end
dates
– Calculate earliest possible end date
– Calculate latest possible end date
• Truncate the above based on known spells of
– Employment
– Out-of-work benefit receipt
• Impute an end date within the truncated range
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Imputation
employment benefit adjusted employment
potential gap random duration imputed employment
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Spans
• Overlapping or contiguous
– Learning aims
– Employment spells
– Benefit spells
• Enables calculation of
– In learning, employment or on benefits on any given
date
– Duration of continuous periods of learning,
employment and benefits receipt
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ILR-WPLS Analysis
• Prior and post-learning labour market data
• Some limited contextual data about learners
– Age
– Gender
– Ethnicity
– Postcode
• Returns to different types of FE provision
• BIS Research Paper 195
• Still largely unexplored
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Example
• Is there any additional benefit in achieving a
NVQ2 hairdressing as part of an
apprenticeship?
• 18 thousand 16-18 year olds achieved
apprenticeship 2009 to 2011
• Similar number achieved NVQ2 hairdressing in
traditional Further Education over the same
period
• How many in sustained employment?
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% in sustained employment post-
learning
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
0 1 2
Years since learning
Apprenticeships FE Provision
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% in sustained employment pre-
learning
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
2 1 0
Years prior to learning
Apprenticeships FE Provision
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How it could be improved
• Use of RTI will improve employment and
earnings data in future
• Matching NPD to WPLS
• Re-matching historic unmatched learners
• Methods for testing sensitivity of outputs to
– Linkage error
– Uncertainty arising from imputation