LSC South East - lsc.gov.uk - Learning and Skills Council

We can perform the same analysis for 17 year olds, capturing the relevant features
of the data in similar box plots:
Figure 9: Box plots of 17 year old total participation rate, 1998-2005
50 60 70 80 90 100
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We observe a similar pattern, though the average participation rate is lower: 75.8%
in 1998 and 76.2% in 2005. It is interesting that, for both ages, the distributions are
fairly symmetric (the horizontal bar representing the median is roughly in the middle
of the box). One might have expected many authorities clustered at a high level,
then a longer tail of lower achieving authorities, but this does not appear to be the
case.
We can look in the same way at the individual components of the overall figure.
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