18 UNITE S T U D E N T S | MEETING THE NEEDS OF NEURODIVERGENT STUDENTS BACK TO CONTENTS QUANTITATIVE DATA Responses were received from 2,038 respondents who were planning to start university in the 2022/23 academic year. The sample has been constructed and weighted to be broadly representative of the applicant population as a whole. Known limitations of the dataset are that it under-indexes non-EU international applicants, and that it over- indexes younger applicants (21 and under). APPENDIX: METHODOLOGY We did not specifically rule out self-diagnosis in the phrasing of the question, asking: “Do you consider yourself to have a disability, impairment or long-term health condition?” Identification and diagnosis for both conditions have developed over recent years and there can be long wait times for diagnosis on the NHS, so not everyone meeting the diagnostic criteria will have a formal diagnosis. We recognise that there may be applicants in the sample who would not meet current criteria for diagnosis, however it should be noted that 80% of the sample either had already disclosed or planned to disclose their condition(s) to their university, which suggests an overall level of confidence in recognition of their condition(s). The sample of neurodivergent applicants in this survey is relatively small. This report discusses areas in which responses for neurodivergent applicants differ from the average response of all applicants, and where these differences are statistically significant to the 95% confidence interval. In some cases, the exact percentages are not given because, due to the small sample size, they do not provide a useful indication of the extent of these differences. Overall, 14.2% of applicants surveyed considered themselves to have one or more of these conditions. Of the 2,038 respondents to the survey: ե 172 or 8.4% had Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) ե 134 or 6.6% had Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC) 9 Included in these figures are 16 applicants who had both, which represents under 1% of the total sample. 9 These figures are broadly in line with the estimated proportion of the total population with ADHD but considerably above the estimated proportion with ASC, according to ADHD Aware.