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This release presents statistics on apprenticeship starts and achievements by their employer enterprise characteristics.

Data from the individualised learner record (ILR), Apprenticeship Service, and Office for National Statistics Inter-departmental Business Register (IDBR) have been matched.

This allows information about apprentices to be linked to information about their employers, covering:

• learner characteristics, including age, gender, learners with learning difficulties or disabilities, ethnicity and whether they live in a relatively deprived area (based on theIndex of Multiple Deprivation)
• apprenticeship information, including level, standard or framework, subject studied, geography of workplace and whether they were supported by levy funds from an apprenticeship service account (ASA)
• employer enterprise characteristics, including industry sector, size band and legal status