Description

The Australian postcode of a student's permanent home residence in their last year of secondary school for Domestic school leaver commencing an undergraduate or VET course

Details

Version: 3.0
First year: 2012
Last year: 2014
Field name: COMMENCING-LOCATION
Element name: Commencing location code of permanent home residence

Code format:

Data Type: Alphanumeric
Units: Code (alphanumeric)
Width: 5

Classification

CODE MEANING
00001
Not a Domestic school leaver commencing an undergraduate/VET course.
Domestic school leaver commencing an undergraduate/VET course:
CODE MEANING
A0001 to A9998
Australian postcode
99999
No information on location of residence

Coding notes

​Only for Domestic school leaver students commencing an undergraduate higher education /VET course.

 
A school leaver is one who has completed Year 12 in the year of the collection or the year prior to the year of the collection.
 
This code must reflect the permanent home residence of the student in the last year of their secondary study and is to be provided by the student when the course is first commenced.
 

Please refer to the Glossary for further information about terminology used in this document.

Input files

​Higher Education:

  • Student Enrolment (EN)
  • Enrolment Revisions (ER)

VET:

  • Student Enrolment (VEN)
  • VET Enrolment Revisions (VER)

Change History

Details of all versions of this data element can be found on its supporting information page.


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