National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 19-Apparent retention rates from 7/8 to Year 10 and Year 12, 2012
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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| Indicator type: | Indicator |
| Short name: | PI 19-Apparent retention rates from 7/8 to Year 10 and Year 12, 2012 |
| METEOR identifier: | 438684 |
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| Description: | The apparent retention rates from Years 7/8, to Year 10 and Year 12, by Indigenous status. |
| Rationale: | Successful completion of Year 12 is critical to improving the economic and social status of Indigenous peoples. Higher levels of education improve employment prospects, health, and wellbeing. Improvements in retention rates are crucial to the achievement of headline education outcomes such as completion of Years 10 and 12, with the latter being a major component of the attainment of Year 12 or Certificate II. |
| Indicator set: | National Indigenous Reform Agreement (2012) Indigenous, Superseded 13/06/2013 |
| Outcome area: | Schooling promotes social inclusion and reduces the educational disadvantage of children, especially Indigenous children Indigenous, Superseded 01/07/2016 |
| Quality statement: | National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 19-Apparent retention rates from year 7-8 to year 10 and to year 12, 2012 QS Indigenous, Standard 01/07/2012 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Computation description: | Presentation: Percentage. |
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| Computation: | 100 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator). |
| Numerator: | To Year 10: number of full time students in Year 10 in reference year. To Year 12: number of full time students in Year 12 in reference year. |
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| Denominator: | To Year 10: Number of full time students from the corresponding cohort in the first year of secondary schooling (Year 7 in NSW, Vic, Tas and ACT in 2007; Year 8 in Qld, WA, SA and NT in 2008). To Year 12: Number of full time students from the corresponding cohort in the first year of secondary schooling (Year 7 in NSW, Vic, Tas and ACT in 2005; Year 8 in Qld, WA, SA and NT in 2006). |
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| Disaggregation: | National & state/territory by Indigenous status. |
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| Comments: | Most recent data available for 2012 CRC report: 2010. At this stage, data are not available by geo-location. A number of factors may affect the accuracy of this measure, including repeating students, migration, inter-sector transfers and enrolment policies (such as different age/grade structures across jurisdictions). Therefore, the cohorts of students in Year 10 and Year 12 are not necessarily the same cohort of students in Year 7/8. Secondary school commencement varies between the states and territories and may vary within jurisdictions across time which will affect the calculation and comparison of apparent retention rates. In 2008 Year 7 became the first year of secondary education in the Northern Territory where previously it was the last year of primary education. It should be noted that relatively small changes in student numbers can result in large movements in retention rates. Baseline year for NIRA target (Halve the gap in Year 12 or equivalent attainment rates by 2020) is 2008; baseline year for this indicator is 2008; target year is 2020. |
Representational attributes | |
| Representation class: | Percentage |
| Data type: | Real |
| Unit of measure: | Person |
| Format: | NN[N].N |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
| Framework and dimensions: | Socioeconomic Factors |
Data source attributes | |
| Data sources: | National Schools Statistics Collection Frequency Annual Data custodian Ministerial Council on Education, Early Childhood Development and Youth Affairs |
Accountability attributes | |
| Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). |
| Further data development / collection required: | Specification: Long-term. |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Steward: | National Indigenous Reform Agreement Performance Information Management Group |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes National Indigenous Reform Agreement: PI 19-Apparent retention rates from 7/8 to year 10 and year 12, 2011
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