Award Statistics for 2010
FETAC is committed to providing timely and comprehensive data to satisfy national and international data needs. As part of this commitment the latest awards data for 2010 are published herein.
Awards analysis - June 2011 update
FETAC is continually engaged in efforts to upgrade and improve the annual awards dataset. The latest awards analysis was completed in June 2011, and supplements the data for 2010 set out in the tables below. It provides headline data and trend data and reveals further detail according to Award Type and Level, Fields of Learning, Region and Age.
A breakdown of the following figures is available in MS Excel format.
FETAC 2010 |
|
| Award holders | |
| Certificates (Major) | 31,764 |
| Component (Minor) | 141,046 |
| Specific Purpose (Special Purpose) | 11,337 |
| Supplemental | 1,327 |
| Total number of Award holders (see notes) | 176,570 |
Type |
Level |
Analysis of Awards |
| Major | 31,764 | |
| Major | Level 6 | 6,834 |
| Major | Level 5 | 20,504 |
| Major | Level 4 | 1,373 |
| Major | Level 3 | 2,602 |
| Major | Level 2 | 281 |
| Major | Level 1 | 170 |
| Minor | see notes | 303,577 |
| Minor | Level 6 | 21,028 |
| Minor | Level 5 | 160,626 |
| Minor | Level 4 | 59,744 |
| Minor | Level 3 | 60,827 |
| Minor | Level 2 | 962 |
| Minor | Level 1 | 390 |
| Special Purpose | 11,337 | |
| Special Purpose | Level 6 | 1,375 |
| Special Purpose | Level 5 | 9,621 |
| Special Purpose | Level 4 | 341 |
| Supplemental | 1,327 | |
| Supplemental | Level 6 | 1,327 |
| Total number of awards (component awards disaggregated) | 348,005 | |
Gender |
|
| Female | 49% |
| Male | 51% |
NDP Region |
|
| BMW | 26% |
| S&E | 74% |
Age |
|
| <15 | 0% |
| 15 - 19 | 13% |
| 20 - 24 | 15% |
| 25 - 29 | 14% |
| 30 - 34 | 12% |
| 35 - 39 | 11% |
| 40 - 44 | 10% |
| 45 - 49 | 9% |
| 50 - 54 | 7% |
| 55 - 59 | 5% |
| 60 - 64 | 3% |
| >65 | 1% |
| n/a | 1% |
Notes:
There are two ways to represent FETAC awards as indicated above.
1.Total number of Award holder
The total is not the sum of the four award types holders shown above as some people achieve awards of more than one award type, e.g. a major award and a minor award.
2.Total number of awards (component awards disaggregated)
Provides a breakdown of the component certificates (for minor awards) issued. The number of minor awards when disaggregated is approx. double the number of paper certificates issued for component awards, which means that a component award lists an average of two minors attained.
The breakdown by gender, age, region (and centre type, fields of learning further on) is based on the total number of awards (component awards disaggregated).
The nomenclature for award types refers to major awards as 'certificates', minors are classified as 'component', special purpose as 'specific purpose' and supplemental as 'supplemental'. The term for major awards (certificates) is not to be confused with paper certificates. All awards are also referred to as certificates in terms of the paper (certificate) issued to the award holder.
The levels refer to National Framework of Qualifications levels (refer to www.nqai.ie).