Person (employed)—level of highest qualification in early childhood education and care, code N[N]
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type:![]() | Data Element |
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Short name:![]() | Level of highest qualification relevant to early childhood education and care |
METEOR identifier:![]() | 602568 |
Registration status:![]() | Early Childhood, Standard 01/06/2015 |
Definition:![]() | The highest level of early childhood education and care-related qualification a person employed in early childhood education and care has attained, as represented by a code. |
Data Element Concept:![]() | Person (employed)—level of highest qualification in employment field |
Value Domain:![]() | Highest level of qualification (early childhood education and care), code N[N] |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
Classification scheme: | Australian Standard Classification of Education 2001 | |
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Representation class:![]() | Code | |
Data type:![]() | Number | |
Format:![]() | N[N] | |
Maximum character length:![]() | 2 | |
Value | Meaning | |
Permissible values:![]() | 1 | Postgraduate degree |
2 | Graduate diploma or graduate certificate level | |
3 | Bachelor degree (honours) | |
4 | Bachelor degree pass (4 years or equivalent) | |
5 | Bachelor degree pass (3 years or equivalent) | |
6 | Advanced diploma | |
7 | Diploma | |
8 | Certificate level 3 or 4 | |
9 | Certificate level 1 or 2 | |
10 | Other certificate | |
Supplementary values:![]() | 97 | Not applicable (no qualification in early education and care related field) |
99 | Not stated/inadequately described |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use:![]() | This item collects the highest level of early childhood education and care-related qualification attained by the worker. Only completed qualifications should be reported. This item is only applicable to paid contact workers in early childhood education and care services. |
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Collection methods:![]() | The level of highest qualification reported should be in relation to the field of education relevant to early childhood education and care reported for the data element Education field of highest relevant qualification in early childhood education and care. A Bachelor degree pass 3 or 4 year equivalent includes staff who have been deemed to have the necessary skills and qualifications to be employed as a qualified early childhood teacher. ‘Equivalent’ is defined as where certain employment and educational experience is deemed to be comparable to a certain level of qualification (i.e. a ‘grandfathered’ qualification). For example, an individual, or group of individuals, may have an early childhood diploma and 10 years’ experience, but the government department or regulatory agency has recognised the individual’s, or group of individuals’, qualifications as equivalent to a 3 or 4 year early childhood university degree. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation:![]() | Early Childhood Data Sub Group (ECDSG) |
Steward:![]() | Early Childhood Data Sub Group (ECDSG) |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references:![]() | Supersedes Person (employed)—level of highest qualification in early childhood education and care, code N[N] Early Childhood, Superseded 01/06/2015 Has been superseded by Person (employed)—level of highest qualification in early childhood education and care, code N[N] Early Childhood, Superseded 02/12/2020 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications:![]() | Early childhood education and care worker cluster Early Childhood, Standard 01/06/2015 Early Childhood Education and Care: Aggregate NMDS 2015 Early Childhood, Superseded 24/07/2018 Implementation start date: 01/07/2015 Early Childhood Education and Care: Aggregate NMDS 2016 Early Childhood, Superseded 24/07/2018 Implementation start date: 01/07/2016 Implementation end date: 30/06/2017 Early Childhood Education and Care: Aggregate NMDS 2017 Early Childhood, Superseded 24/07/2018 Implementation start date: 01/07/2017 Implementation end date: 01/06/2018 Early Childhood Education and Care: Aggregate NMDS 2018 Early Childhood, Standard 24/07/2018 Implementation start date: 01/07/2018 Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2015 Early Childhood, Superseded 24/07/2018 Implementation start date: 01/07/2015 Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2016 Early Childhood, Superseded 24/07/2018 Implementation start date: 01/07/2016 Implementation end date: 30/06/2017 Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2017 Early Childhood, Superseded 24/07/2018 Implementation start date: 01/07/2017 Implementation end date: 30/06/2018 Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2018 Early Childhood, Superseded 02/12/2020 Implementation start date: 01/07/2018 |