Person (employed)—education field of highest relevant qualification, early childhood education and care field of qualification code N[N]
Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:
Data Element
Short name:
Field of highest relevant qualification (early childhood education and care)
METeOR identifier:
388641
Registration status:
Early Childhood, Superseded 07/06/2011
Definition:
The field of education in which a person has attained their highest qualification relevant to early childhood education and care, as represented by a code.
Other qualification not related to early childhood
Supplementary values:
97
Not applicable (No qualification)
98
Unknown (Qualification unknown)
99
Not stated/inadequately described
Collection and usage attributes
Guide for use:
Permissible values
The value domain uses the Field of Education classification of Australian Standard Classification of Education (ASCED). This is a three-level hierarchical Classification specifying broad, narrow and detailed fields of study.
This is the specific field of education in which the early childhood education and care worker has attained their highest early childhood education and care related qualification.
This item is only applicable to paid contact workers/caregivers in child care and preschool services.
Collection methods:
Comments:
The 'No qualification' and 'Qualification unknown' categories have been put into the Supplementary values field to ensure that the permissible values only refer to the field of education. Future development - suggest separating this data element into a yes/no indicator data element to determine whether the person has a qualification or not, and a field of education data element.
