This article follows a statistical methodology used by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to compare how far the educational attainment of groups within the UK workforce differs from the average education level for their occupations. In the literature this is referred to as a type of skill mismatch.
Data which shows percentage of all matched, over and undereducated people for each variable, between April - June 2002 and October to December 2015. Variables covered are: whole economy by gender, age, full-time/part-time, employee/self-employees, country of birth