"Figure 3: The percentage of undergraduate students in employment for each mode of study by age group, England and Wales","" "Tax years ending 2015 and 2016, men and women, aged 16 and over","" "","" "Notes","1. These Research Outputs are not official statistics on student employment. 2. Data source: Pay As You Earn (PAYE) data from HM Revenue and Customs and student record data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). As the outputs are limited to these data sources, self-employed students are not classified as employed. 3. Students were only included in the analysis if they were present on SPD V2.0 2015. For further information on the methodology, see [section 5](https://www.ons.gov.uk/census/censustransformationprogramme/administrativedatacensusproject/administrativedatacensusresearchoutputs/populationcharacteristics/researchoutputsinvestigatingtheeconomicactivityofundergraduatestudentsusingadministrativedata#how-did-we-determine-whether-a-student-was-employed). 4. Only undergraduate students aged 16 and over who were not in their first or last year of study during the academic year ending 2015 were included in the analysis. For further information on the methodology, see [section 5](https://www.ons.gov.uk/census/censustransformationprogramme/administrativedatacensusproject/administrativedatacensusresearchoutputs/populationcharacteristics/researchoutputsinvestigatingtheeconomicactivityofundergraduatestudentsusingadministrativedata#how-did-we-determine-whether-a-student-was-employed)." "Unit","%" "","" "Age","Full Time","Sandwich","Part Time" "16 to 19","65.3","69.3","68.4" "20","71.5","76.6","76.2" "21","71.8","84.2","76.6" "22","65.6","82.2","78.9" "23","67.7","80.9","86.3" "24","71.9","77.6","89.7" "25","76.4","80.9","88.1" "26 to 30","74.8","79.7","89.8" "31 to 40","70.4","75.7","86.4" "41 and over","71.2","63.9","82.1"