Description
A code which identifies whether a student had commenced and/or completed the final year of secondary education. NB. See "Classification" section below for detailed description.
Details
Version: | 2.0 |
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First year: | 1989 |
Last year: | 1998 |
Field name: | PRIOR-SECED-TAFE |
Element name: | Prior secondary education course at TAFE; year |
Code format:
Data Type: | Character |
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Units: | Code (numeric), right justified, with leading zeros if needed |
Width: | 3 |
Classification
Description (detailed)
A code which identifies whether a student had commenced and/or completed the final year of secondary education at a TAFE college, technical college, evening school, evening college, CAE, institute of technology, institute of advanced education or institute of tertiary education; and the year in which the student completed the final year of secondary education.
CODE | MEANING |
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000 | Overseas Student |
001 | Non‑overseas student but not a commencing student |
A commencing non‑overseas student who for a secondary education course at a TAFE college, technical college, evening school, evening college, CAE, institute of technology, institute of advanced education or institute of tertiary education:
CODE | MEANING |
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100 | did not do such a course or did not complete |
2YY | did such a course and completion of final year of secondary education was in year YY |
999 | no information on prior secondary education course at TAFE |
Coding notes
YY is replaced by two digits indicating the last year in which the student completed the final year of secondary education at TAFE (e.g. "81" would indicate 1981). If no information is available for year, code as "2AA" or "3AA".
If data are reported for students other than non‑overseas students, DETYAPAC will identify such students using Element 358 (Citizen/resident indicator) and will ignore the data during edit validations and the data for them will be re‑coded as "000" when data are loaded to DETYA's database.