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SET Occupations 2009

Workforce in the Oil and Gas Industries in the UK by gender, 2008

The table shows the number and proportions of workforce in the oil and gas industries in the UK by gender for 2008.  Published by UKRC in September 2009.  
 
 

Pharmacy workforce by gender in the UK, 2008

The table shows the number and proportions of women and men who were employed in pharmacy-related occupations in the UK for 2008. 
Published by UKRC in September 2009.  

 

Hourly median pay (£) of SET professionals by gender in the UK, 2002 to 2008

The table shows median hourly pay (excluding overtime) of SET professionals in the UK by gender from 2002 to 2008.  Published by UKRC in October 2009.

 


Claimants for Job Seekers Allowance by gender and SET occupation in the UK, Dec 08 to May 09

The tables show the number of women and men who used to work in SET occupations but were claiming for Job Seeker's Allowance during the period from December 2008 to May 2009.  Bar charts are also attached in the files.  Published from UKRC in July 2009.


SET occupation by gender and employment status in the UK, 2008

The table shows the number and proportions of the working age population by gender, SET occupation and employment status in the UK in 2008. Published by UKRC in March 2009.

 


SET occupation by gender, age group and employment status in the UK, 2008

The tables show the number and proportions of women and men in SET occupations by age group and employment status in the UK in 2008.  Published by UKRC in March 2009.
 
 

SET occupation by gender, disability status and employment status in the UK, 2008

The table shows the number and proportions of the working age population by gender, SET occupation, employment status, and disability status in the UK in 2008. Published by UKRC in March 2009.
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SET Trades by gender and employment status in the UK, 2008

The table shows the number and proportions of women and men in SET trades (Electrical, Construction, and Building Trades)  by gender and employment status in the UK in 2008. Published by UKRC in March 2009.
 

Self-employed SET workers by gender in the UK 2008

The table shows the number and proportions of female and male self-employed workers in SET occupations in 2008.  Published by UKRC in May 2009.
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Self-employed SET workers by gender in the UK 2002 and 2007

The table shows the number and proportions of female and male self-employed workers in SET occupations in 2002 and 2007.  Published by UKRC in February 2009.
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SET occupations by gender and employment status 2002 to 2007

The table shows the number and proportions of the working age population by gender, SET occupation and employment status in the UK from 2002 to 2007. Published by UKRC in February 2009.
 
 

SET occupations by gender and managerial position in the UK, 2005 and 2007

The tables show the number and proportions of women and men who reported their current occupations as SET occupations classified by their managerial responsibilities (i.e. Manager, Foreman or supervisor, or Not manager or supervisor).  Published by UKRC in January 2009.
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SET occupations by gender, age group and employment status in the UK, 2007

The table shows the number and proportions of the working age population by gender, SET occupation, employment status, and age in the UK in 2007. Published by UKRC in March 2009.
 
 

SET occupations by gender, ethnicity and employment status in the UK, 2007

The table shows the number and proportions of women and men by ethnicity, SET occupation and employment status in the UK in 2008.  Published by UKRC in January 2009.
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SET occupations by gender, disability status and employment status in the UK, 2007

The table shows the number and proportions of women and men by disability status, SET occupation and employment status in the UK in 2008.  Published by UKRC in January 2009.
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Health professionals in the UK by gender 2002 and 2007

The table shows the number and proportions of female and male health professionals in the UK in 2002 and 2007.  Published by UKRC in February 2009.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
Stats of the month

ARCHIVE


Girls do well in SET A Levels

(A full report is available here)
 
Girls are consistently performing well in those A level SET subjects that they attempt. The trend in the UK for girls  being slightly more likely than boys (who are also performing well) to obtain a grade A-E in SET A level subjects continues in 2009.  The differences in performance between girls and boys are greatest in information and communication technologies and in computing where the success rate (obtaining a grade A-E) of girls was 2.6 percentage points higher than that of boys; and in physics when it was 2.0 percentage points higher.

Girls are also achieving a higher percentage than boys of A grades in SET A levels, but not consistently across all subjects.  The subjects that show the largest differences in performance are:
  • technology subjects where 21.3% of girls scored an A grade compared to 15.4% of boys : a difference of 5.9 percentage points
  • physics: where 36.4% of girls scored an A grade compared to 30.7 % of boys: a difference of 5.7 percentage points
  • Information and communication technologies (ICT): where13.3% of girls scored an A grade compared to 8.2 % of boys: a difference of 5.1 percentage points.
Only in further maths and computing did boys achieve better than girls with 58.6% of boys achieving an A grade compared to 57.2% of girls in further maths: a difference of 1.4 percentage points. In computing 15.8% ob boys who attempted the subject achieved an A grade compared to 15.0% of girls.

Figure 1 below shows the actual numbers of girls attempting all SET A level subjects, and also charts this number as a percentage of the total entrants. This shows that girls are over 50% of entrants only in biology, although they have nearly reached this proportion in chemistry where they are 48.4%. In maths, technology and ICT girls ‘hover’ around the 40% mark. In further mathematics, and combined sciences they make up nearly one third of entrants. In physics they are just over 20% of entrants, and in computing they are not quite 10% of entrants.
 
 
 
 



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