Rural England
Access to training
Key points
- In both rural and urban districts, employees without educational qualifications are much less likely to receive any job-related training than those with qualifications.
- The situation is similar in all types of district.
- See the UK indicator on training.
Graph 1: Compared to urban
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Rural/urban ratios (urban = 10)
On most poverty and social exclusion indicators, rural areas have 'better scores' than urban areas. The purpose of the table below is to differentiate between those subjects where rural areas are 'a bit better' and those where rural areas are 'a lot better'. It does so by presenting the rural statistics for the indicator as a proportion of the urban statistics. So, for example, a rural 'score' of 6 in the table below means that the rural statistic is around 60% of its urban equivalent.
| Type of district | No qualifications | With qualifications |
|---|---|---|
| 'Very rural' districts | 9 | 10 |
| 'Mostly rural' districts | 10 | 10 |
| 'Part rural' districts | 10 | 10 |
Definitions and data sources
The indicator
For each type of local authority district, the graph shows the proportion of working-age employees who have received some work-related training in the last three months, with the data shown separately for those with some previous qualifications and those without. The qualifications include both academic and vocational qualifications and both current qualifications (e.g. GCSEs) and qualifications which have been awarded in the past (e.g. O levels).
Level of the data
Lower tier local authorities (districts), as classified by the DEFRA 2005 classification system. Both the DEFRA classification rules and their results by local authority can be found on the page on rural/urban classification systems.
Source
The Annual Population Survey, which is effectively the Labour Force Survey with selected booster samples to compensate for small sample sizes in some authorities. The data is the average for 2004 to 2006.
The numbers
| Type of district | No qualifications | With qualifications |
|---|---|---|
| 'Very rural' districts | 10% | 31% |
| 'Mostly rural' districts | 11% | 31% |
| 'Part rural' districts | 11% | 31% |
| Urban districts | 12% | 32% |