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Higher Education Staff Statistics Collection
Excluded from the Higher Education Staff Data Collection are:
DISSEMINATION Publication Department of Education, Science and Training, Staff, Selected Higher Education Statistics ,DEST, Canberra. Data Service Other data may be available on request. For further information contact DEST. Release Schedule The publication is released in March of the year following the reference year. DATA ITEMS The Higher Education Staff Data Collection collects information for the following: Full-time and fractional full-time staff Age and Gender Appointment details Current duties and classification details Full-time equivalence details Salary details Function Organisational unit Indigenous indicator Casual staff Gender Current duties Function Organisational unit Full-time equivalence details GEOGRAPHY Information is available for Australia and all s METHOD OF COLLECTION Institutions receive detailed written documentation about what information is required to be furnished in the form of an electronic help file. Universities design and produce their own statistical information forms. These are designed to be used by institutions to collect the required information from staff. DEST have provided institutions with suggested wording for questions relating to Indigenous status. Institutions are provided with a software package (DEST) to assist with the collection of data. Incorporated in the package is a data validation process. Institutions are required to validate statistical and other data prior to submission. This data are then provided to DEST in the form of either magnetic files or electronically via file transfer facility. When data are received by DEST, a further series of validation checks are undertaken. TIMING OF COLLECTION Reference Period The census date is 31 March each year. Frequency of Collection Annual. Historical Data The collection of higher education statistics in its current form commenced in 1987. Prior to that there were two separate collections of data relating to advanced education institutions and Universities. Data between the two collections is not strictly compatible and only limited comparisons can be made. Since 1987 there have also been changes to the existing collection. In 1989 a number of significant changes to the collection were made, resulting from the introduction of HECS. Since that time DEST has reviewed the nature of information required and the timing of provision of the data. GO TO CONTENTS OF THE DIRECTORY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING STATISTICS
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