The table gives information about the employment of students from four countries in the UK after their courses in 2001.
Overall, among the four countries, permanent employment was the most common, while working abroad represented the smallest segment. Noticeably, Northern Ireland, despite having the lowest total employment, had the largest percentage of overseas employment.
All countries showed a clear bias towards permanent and temporary employment among the remaining options. Specifically, a dominant proportion of students from Scotland were recorded in permanent employment, with 43.6%, while the figure for temporary jobs was half that of the former, at 20.2%. In comparison, England and Wales shared a relatively high level of permanent employment, with 33% and 30% respectively, although a gap of over 10 percentage points existed in temporary jobs between these two countries, at 23% and 12.4% for each group. A similar pattern was seen in Northern Ireland, which witnessed a disproportion between permanent and temporary work, with 20% for the former and 8.6% belonging to the latter.
Noticeably, overseas jobs were not a popular choice for students in all countries, except for Northern Ireland with 5%. The remaining countries comprised a relatively low minority of overseas workers, at under 3% per country. Remarkably, Scotland exhibited the highest employment rate, as evident by a total of 66.4%, followed by England with 58.3%. By contrast, employment rates in Wales and Northern Ireland were both low, at under 50%, with 45.3% and 33.6% respectively.