National Indigenous Reform Agreement: P26b-Proportion of Indigenous 18-24 year olds engaged in full-time employment, education or training at or above Certificate III (Survey Data), 2010
Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:
Indicator
Indicator type:
Indicator
Short name:
Proportion of Indigenous 18-24 year olds engaged in full-time employment, education or training at or above Certificate III (Survey Data), 2010
METeOR identifier:
396915
Registration status:
Community Services, Superseded 04/04/2011
Description:
The proportion of the 18–24 year old population that are fully engaged in employment, education and/or training at or above Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) Certificate III, by Indigenous status.
Rationale:
Engagement in full-time employment, education or training provides young people with opportunities to acquire work-related skills. Engagement in study or training enables students to can gain the qualifications, skills, knowledge and attributes they need for successful transition to work.
• participation in full time education or training at or above AQF Certificate III, or
• participation in both employment and education/training at or above AQF Certificate III.
Presentation: Number and percentage, including confidence intervals and relative standard errors for percentages.
Computation:
100 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator)
Numerator:
People aged 18–24 years who are fully engaged in employment and/or education and training.
Numerator data elements:
Denominator:
Total population of people aged 18–24 years.
Denominator data elements:
Disaggregation data elements:
Comments:
Disaggregation: National and state/territory, by engagement in work/education status, by Indigenous status.
Most recent data available for 2010 CRC baseline report: 2008 NATSISS (Indigenous) and SEW 2008 (non-Indigenous).
The NATSISS does not provide information on level of qualification for those working towards qualification (only for those who have completed). Therefore, the data on education/training includes persons aged 18-24 engaged in education/training at any qualification level. Work is required to collect data by qualification level of current study.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is exploring options for collecting level and field of current study in future household surveys, commencing with the General Social Survey (GSS) 2010. The ABS is not planning on collecting these data items in future Census’s.
Other issues caveats:
The SEW does not include people living in very remote areas which may affect the comparability of results.
