Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education Record 2013/14 - Category of previous employment - Q17
Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education Record 2013/14All fieldsCategory of previous employment - Q17 | return to field list | valid entries |
| Type | field |
| Short name | PREVWORK |
| Description | This field describes the categories of work that the HE leaver had undertaken previously for their employer. |
| Applicable to | England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales |
| Coverage | All HE leavers where Student.ALLACT is coded 1 or 2 and Employment.PREVEM is coded 1, 2, or 3. |
| Question | Q17. In which of the ways listed below did you work for this employer? Please tick all that apply. |
| Valid entries and labels | |
| Notes | All of the boxes ticked by the HE leaver must be coded. The information captured relates to what the HE leaver considers to be their MAIN job. A response to the question is expected if the following codes were used for Q1 (Student.ALLACT): 1 'Working full-time' or 2 'Working part-time' and Q16 (Employment.PREVEM): 1 'Yes: before my programme of study', 2 'Yes: during my programme of study', or 3 'Yes: before and during my programme of study'. As this is an element that can occur more than once, only return the number of elements required for the data. Padding out the number of elements so that the maximum number of occurrences are returned will result in a validation error, as values will either be repeated, or the use of a default or unknown code will make the data inconsistent. |
| Required for valid response | No |
| To be asked of third party | No |
| Quality rules |
Quality rules relating to this field are displayed here.
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| Reason required | To find out about previous employment and to see how employment histories affect outcomes. |
| Part of | |
| Field length | 2 |
| Minimum occurrences | 0 |
| Maximum occurrences | 7 |
| Schema components |
Element: PREVWORK
Data type: PREVWORKCodeContentType |
| Owner | HESA |
| Version | 1.1 |
| Date modified | 2014-10-07 |
| Change management notes | Business rules 2 and 3 amended so that all references to the field 'Employment.PREVEMP' have been replaced with 'Employment.PREVEM' to ensure that short identifiers are unique across HESA collections. |
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