Description

A code representing the country of birth of a student

Details

Version: 3.0
First year: 2012
Last year: 2014
Field name: COUNTRY-BIRTH
Element name: Country of birth code

Code format:

Data Type: Numeric
Units: Code (numeric)
Width: 4

Classification

CODE MEANING
1100 Student was born in Australia
1200 to 9299 Overseas country code from countries classification for student who was born outside Australia
9998 No information on country for student who was born outside Australia
9999 No information on whether born in Australia or not

Coding notes

Refer to Appendix C - Standard Australian Classification of Countries

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

Input files

Higher Education Student:

  • Commonwealth Higher Education Student Support Number (CHESSN)
  • Enrolment (EN)
  • Enrolment Revisions (ER)
  • Past Course Completions (PS)

Higher Education Staff:

  • Full-Time and FFT (FT)

VET FEE-HELP:

  • VET Enrolment (VEN)
  • VET Enrolment Revisions (VER)
  • VET Commonwealth Higher Education Student Support Number (CHESSN)

Change History

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


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