The Survey of Education and Work (2007) Basic Confidentialised Unit Record File (CURF) contains data on participation in education, highest educational attainment, transition from education to work and current labour force and demographic characteristics for the civilian population aged 15-64 years. Characteristics reported on include: type of educational institution attended or attending; level and main field of education of current study and highest level and main field of educational attainment. Information on unsuccessful enrolment and deferment of study is included for persons not studying in the survey year.

The Basic CURF can be accessed on CD-ROM or via the ABS Remote Access Data Laboratory (RADL).

Steps to confidentialise the dataset are taken to ensure the integrity of data, optimise its content and maintain confidentiality of respondents. They include removing any information that might uniquely identify an individual, reducing the level of detail for some items and collapsing some categories.

For more information and the detailed list of data items, please refer to the Survey of Education and Work, May 2007, Confidentialised Unit Record File, Technical Manual (cat. no. 6227.0.30.002)