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Australian Standard Classification of Education 2001

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termClassification Scheme
Synonymous names:Help on this termASCED 2001
METEOR identifier:Help on this term270551
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Community Services (retired), Standard 01/03/2005
  • Early Childhood, Standard 24/07/2018
Definition:Help on this termThe Australian Bureau of Statistics classification for fields of education.

Collection and usage attributes

Comments:Help on this termASCED comprises two classifications: Level of Education and Field of Education. Both the level and field of education components can be used to report statistics on various aspects of educational activity, such as student enrolments by level of course or by field of study; teaching resources by level of course; financial resources by field; or educational attainment by level and field.

Source and reference attributes

Origin:Help on this term

Australian Bureau of Statistics 2001. Australian Standard Classification of Education (ASCED). Cat No. 1272.0. Canberra: ABS. (last viewed 21 March 2006)

Relational attributes

Value Domains based on this classification scheme:Help on this term

Field of education code (ASCED 2001) NN[{NN}{NN}]

  • Community Services (retired), Standard 01/03/2005

Highest education level code (ASCED 2001) N[NN]

  • Community Services (retired), Standard 01/03/2005

Education level code NN

  • Community Services (retired), Standard 29/04/2006

Highest level of qualification (early childhood education and care), code N[N]

  • Community Services (retired), Standard 21/05/2010
  • Early Childhood, Superseded 07/06/2011

Highest level of qualification (early childhood education and care), code N[N]

  • Early Childhood, Standard 07/06/2011

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