Person (employed)—level of highest qualification in employment field, 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 in employment field |
METEOR identifier: | 396927 |
Registration status: | Early Childhood, Superseded 07/06/2011 |
Definition: | The highest level of qualification a person employed in early childhood education and care has attained in the relevant field, 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) |
98 | Unknown (qualification unknown) | |
99 | Not stated/inadequately described |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | The qualification status of a worker relates to the worker’s currently held relevant qualifications, i.e. only completed qualifications should be reported. |
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Collection methods: | Please select the box that reflects the qualification levels of your preschool teaching staff. Note that a Bachelor degree pass 4 year equivalent includes staff who have been deemed to have the necessary skills and qualifications to be employed as a 4 year degree equivalent teacher by your jurisdiction. |
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 level 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 level of education data element.
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Early Childhood Data Sub Group (ECDSG) |
Steward: | Early Childhood Data Sub Group (ECDSG) |
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Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes Person (employed)—highest level of qualification in employment field, children's services code N[N] Community Services (retired), Superseded 21/05/2010 Has been superseded by Person (employed)—level of highest qualification in early childhood education and care, code N[N] Early Childhood, Superseded 28/05/2014 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Early Childhood Education and Care: Aggregate NMDS 2010 Early Childhood, Superseded 07/06/2011 Implementation start date: 01/07/2010 Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2010 Early Childhood, Superseded 07/06/2011 Implementation start date: 01/07/2010 |
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