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Person—level of highest educational attainment

Metadata item type:Data Element Concept
METeOR identifier:321059
Registration status:Community Services, Standard 29/04/2006
Definition:The highest level of education achieved by a person in relation to completed education.

Object Class attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Object class:Person
Definition:A human being, whether man, woman or child.
Specialisation of:Person/group of persons

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Origin:Macquarie University 2003. The Macquarie Dictionary 3rd ed. Sydney: The Macquarie Library Pty. Ltd

Property attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Property:Level of educational attainment
Definition:The level of academic qualification achieved.
Property group:Educational characteristics

Collection and usage attributes

Comments:The concept of level of education used is broadly consistent with the concept used in the ASCED which takes its meaning from the ISCED 1997, which states that “the notion of ‘levels’ of education is taken to be broadly related to gradations of learning experiences...”, and that “the level is related to the degree of complexity of the content of the programmes.”  (UNESCO 1997, p.10).

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Data element concept attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Comments:This metadata item provides an indication of diversity in aspects of educational attainment.

Relational attributes

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Supersedes Person—level of highest educational attainment Community Services, Superseded 29/04/2006

Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept:

Person—level of highest educational attainment, code NN Community Services, Standard 29/04/2006

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