The Bangladeshi and Pakistani groups also had the highest proportion of people reporting no educational qualifications.
Decile 1 schools are the 10% of schools with the highest proportion of students from low socioeconomic resource areas (defined according to residents' income, occupation, household crowding, educational qualifications and income support) and decile 10 are the 10% of schools with the highest proportion of students from high socioeconomic areas.
As shown in Table 4, whilst a similar proportion of entrepreneurs running both types of businesses had bachelors and masters degrees (79% and 75% - see Table 4), those operating IT-based online home-based businesses had a higher proportion of formal qualifications in areas such as computing and e-marketing (64% - see Table 4) compared to those operating non-IT based businesses (13%).
Girls have been receiving better school grades than boys for more than 60 years, and for more than 20 years, they have constituted the higher proportion of applicants with qualifications for higher education (Helbig 2013).
"Liverpool, for example, has one of the highest proportions of residents with no formal qualifications in the UK, and also has very low rates of GCSE attainment.
If the NSS estimate of the proportion of unqualified allopathic physicians were applied, then the density of allopathic physicians in urban and rural areas would be 11.3 and 1.2, respectively, reflecting the higher proportion of physicians reporting insufficient qualifications in rural areas.
Annually, 45% of young people leave school without a decent set of qualifications; a high proportion of older people live on very low incomes.
It recommends that policy makers should respond to economic downturns by "targeting appropriate policies aimed at maintaining positive educational attitudes and aspirations towards children and their parents in neighbourhoods and schools where a high proportion of the population have low qualifications".
