Class Statistics

Question 1

Education- Oxbridge

Answer 1

poor pupils 55 times less likely to go to Oxbridge (BBC)

Question 2

Education- Private schools to Oxbridge

Answer 2

approx 7% of children who go to private schools 45% of whom go to Oxbridge (ONS)

Question 3

Education- Backgrounds

Answer 3

59% of children from higher professional backgrounds were in Higher Education compared to only 19% of the children of routine workers (DFE)

Question 4

Education- Free school meals

Answer 4

35% of pupils entitled to free school meals gained 5 GCSEs at A* - C compared to an average of 58% (DFE)

Question 5

Workplace- Manual occupation backgrounds

Answer 5

12.8% of students at Cambridge and 11.5% at Oxford are from a manual occupation background
(ONS)

Question 6

Workplace- Rich to poor

Answer 6

household wealth of the top 10% of the population excluding bankers and executive workers is 100 times higher than the poorest 10% (The Hills Report)

Question 7

Crime

Answer 7

argue that 41% of prisoners are from the lowest social classes, when only 19% of the overall population are from the lowest classes. (Walmsey et al)

Question 8

Health- Life expectancy men

Answer 8

Life expectancy is 78 for men in middle class areas and 76 for men in poor areas
(Wilkinson and Pickett

Question 9

Health- Life expectancy

Answer 9

women live 7.4 years longer than men living in lower classes (Healthcare commission)

Question 10

Health- Teenage Motherhood

Answer 10

teenage motherhood is 7 times as common amongst those from manual labour background (Healthcare Commission)