HESA Student Domicile Explorer

The HESA data is a headcount of student numbers. All sheets show the HESA Standard Registration Population, which excludes dormant students, postdoctoral students, programmes where the study is outside the UK, sabbatical and writing-up students. Incoming visiting and exchange students are included in the data.

The student headcounts incorporate the HESA rounding strategy:

• All numbers are rounded to the nearest multiple of 5
• Any number lower than 2.5 is rounded to 0
• Halves are always rounded upwards (e.g. 2.5 is rounded to 5)
• Averages based on 7 or fewer individuals are suppressed

Further details about the rounding strategy can be found at https://www.hesa.ac.uk/about/regulation/data-protection/rounding-and-suppression-anonymise-statistics

Percentages in the workbook have been calculated using the actual student headcount (not rounded).

Please be aware that the York's incoming exchange students are nearly all categorised as 'other undergraduate' and 'eligibility to pay home fees not assessed'.

Also, the 'exchange student' field was not purchased in 2010/11 and therefore there are nulls when filtering on this for these years.

Data groups and characteristics

There is a filter for the University's target domiciles. These are countries which the University targets and monitors for student recruitment purposes.

This group is made up as follows.

International Office target domiciles and target groups

There is a group called STEMM and HASS which stands for Science Technology Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine (STEMM) and Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS). The grouping is based upon a mapping of JACS subject groups as follows:

Filters available:

• Region of domicile - based around continents
• Country of domicile - the country of domicile upon entry to the University
• International Office Target domiciles - see above
• Mission group (e.g. Russell Group, Former 1994 Group)
• Institution shortname
• Entrant marker - to show continuing students or new entrants
• Fee eligibility - to show fee status
• JACS subject area, JACS principal subject and JACS code (4-digit) - to allow users to drill down to the lowest level of JACS coding available
• Cluster/Subject Area - this is the subject area of the York Department name e.g. English = Arts & Humanities
• York department - refer to the Department Mappings sheet to see which JACS principal subjects are mapped to York departments, these form the basis of comparison with other institutions when selecting a York department
• Level of study
• Mode of study
• Exchange student

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Changelog:

• v7.1 19.12.2014 first publication
• v7.1 05.01.2015 - altered internal departmental mapping of JACS 2-digit code to History of Art (from Economics).
• v7.3 11.03.2015 - create 'Europe' group for International Office Target Domiciles filter.
• v8.2 13.05.2015 - Updated the workbook to include HESA 2013/14 data. Moved source data, groupings and some calculated fields into a materialised view in Plandisc (hesa_student_domicile_mv & hesa_student_domicile_jacs4_mv). Added new 'Hide or Show Sets' calculated field in Tableau worksheets to correct fitlering of SET1 and 2 when changing the different 'characteristic' options in sheets 2, 3, 4 and 5.
• v8.3 23.03.2016 - non-release working file.
• v8.4 08.04.2016 - Updated the workbook to include HESA 2014/15 data.
• v8.5 07.06.2016 - introduced percentage change from and to parameter calculation on sheet 5. Removed sheet 'Major Source of Tuition Fees'.
• v8.6 - Updated the workbook to include HESA 2015/16 data.
• v8.8 - Updated the workbook to include HESA 2016/17 data.
• v8.9 - Updated the workbook to include HESA 2017/18 data.
• v8.9.1 16.04.2019 - Amended the workbook to use HESA rounding strategy for student headcount.
• v8.9.2 08/11/2019 - Amended the layout as per current guidelines.
• v9.0 - Updated the workbook to include HESA 2018/19 data.