Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education record 2015/16
Online DLHE file layout
Version 1.1 Produced 2016-01-07
The Online DLHE survey data can be downloaded from Bristol Online Survey (BOS). The questionnaire output files are available in the following file formats: Microsoft Excel (.XLSX, .XLS), tab separated (.TSV), fixed-length file, comma separated value (.CSV) and SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) (.sav). HESA will only maintain the output specification for CSV and fixed length format.
In fixed length format, each field is left justified and padded out with spaces where necessary to the specified length.
Question | Field name | Description | Element name in output | Field length |
N/A | TIMESTMP | Timestamp (YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss UTC) | TIMESTMP | 23 |
N/A | Student.RECID | Record type indicator | RECID | 5 |
N/A | Student.UKPRN | UK Provider Reference Number | UKPRN | 8 |
N/A | PIN | PIN number 2 | PIN | 10 |
N/A | OWNSTU | Provider's own identifier for student 3 | OWNSTU | 20 |
N/A | Student.STATUS | Status of data collection | STATUS | 2 |
N/A | FNAMES | Forenames 2 | FNAMES | 100 |
N/A | SURNAME | Surname 2 | SURNAME | 100 |
N/A | ADDRESS1 | Address Line 1 2 | ADDRESS1 | 50 |
N/A | ADDRESS2 | Address Line 2 2 | ADDRESS2 | 50 |
N/A | ADDRESS3 | Address Line 3 2 | ADDRESS3 | 50 |
N/A | TOWNCITY | Town or City 2 | TOWNCITY | 50 |
N/A | COUNTY | County, Region or State 2 | COUNTY | 50 |
N/A | POSTCODE | Postal or Zip Code 2 | POSTCODE | 8 |
N/A | COUNTRY | Country 2 | COUNTRY | 50 |
N/A | TELEPHONE | Telephone 2 | TELEPHONE | 30 |
N/A | EMAIL_ID | Email address 2 | EMAIL_ID | 80 |
N/A | COURSE_STUDIED | Title of course studied 2 | COURSE_STUDIED | 255 |
Q1 | Student.ALLACT1 1 | All activities | ALLACT | 1 |
Q1 | Student.ALLACT2 1 | All activities | ALLACT | 1 |
Q1 | Student.ALLACT4 1 | All activities | ALLACT | 1 |
Q1 | Student.ALLACT5 1 | All activities | ALLACT | 1 |
Q1 | Student.ALLACT6 1 | All activities | ALLACT | 1 |
Q1 | Student.ALLACT7 1 | All activities | ALLACT | 1 |
Q1 | Student.ALLACT8 1 | All activities | ALLACT | 1 |
Q1 | Student.ALLACT9 1 | All activities | ALLACT | 1 |
Q1 | Student.MIMPACT | Most important activity | MIMPACT | 1 |
Q2 | Employment.JOBSNO | Number of jobs | JOBSNO | 1 |
Q3 | Employment.JOBTITLE | Job title | JOBTITLE | 60 |
Q4 | Employment.JOBDUTIES | Job duties | JOBDUTIES | 200 |
Q5 | Employment.EMPBASIS | Employment basis | EMPBASIS | 2 |
Q6 | Employment.EMPPAY | Pay | EMPPAY | 20 |
Q6 | Employment.EMPUNPAID | Unpaid work | EMPUNPAID | 1 |
Q7 | Employment.EMPPAYPERIOD | Payment period | EMPPAYPERIOD | 1 |
Q8 | Employment.EMPCURRENCY | Currency of pay | EMPCURRENCY | 1 |
Q9 | Employment.EMPHOURS | Hours worked per week | EMPHOURS | 5 |
Q10 | Employment.ESTEARN | Total estimated earnings for a year | ESTEARN | 7 |
Q11 | Employment.EMPNAME | Employer name | EMPNAME | 60 |
Q12 | Employment.MAKEDO | Nature of employer's business | MAKEDO | 60 |
Q13 | Employment.EMPPLACE | Place of employment | EMPPLACE | 200 |
Q13 | Employment.EMPPCODE | UK Postcode for place of employment | EMPPCODE | 8 |
Q13 | Employment.EMPCOUNTRY | Country of employment | EMPCOUNTRY | 2 |
Q14 | Employment.QUALREQ | Qualification required for job | QUALREQ | 2 |
Q15 | Employment.EMPIMP | Importance to employer | EMPIMP | 1 |
Q16 | Employment.JOBRSNALL1 1 | All reasons for taking the job | JOBRSNALL | 2 |
Q16 | Employment.JOBRSNALL2 1 | All reasons for taking the job | JOBRSNALL | 2 |
Q16 | Employment.JOBRSNALL3 1 | All reasons for taking the job | JOBRSNALL | 2 |
Q16 | Employment.JOBRSNALL4 1 | All reasons for taking the job | JOBRSNALL | 2 |
Q16 | Employment.JOBRSNALL5 1 | All reasons for taking the job | JOBRSNALL | 2 |
Q16 | Employment.JOBRSNALL6 1 | All reasons for taking the job | JOBRSNALL | 2 |
Q16 | Employment.JOBRSNALL7 1 | All reasons for taking the job | JOBRSNALL | 2 |
Q16 | Employment.JOBRSNALL8 1 | All reasons for taking the job | JOBRSNALL | 2 |
Q16 | Employment.JOBRSNALL9 1 | All reasons for taking the job | JOBRSNALL | 2 |
Q16 | Employment.JOBRSNMAIN | Main reason for taking the job | JOBRSNMAIN | 2 |
Q17 | Employment.JOBFOUND | How found job | JOBFOUND | 2 |
Q18 | Employment.PREVEM | Previous employed | PREVEM | 1 |
Q19 | Employment.PREVWORK1 1 | Category of previous employment | PREVWORK | 2 |
Q19 | Employment.PREVWORK2 1 | Category of previous employment | PREVWORK | 2 |
Q19 | Employment.PREVWORK3 1 | Category of previous employment | PREVWORK | 2 |
Q19 | Employment.PREVWORK4 1 | Category of previous employment | PREVWORK | 2 |
Q19 | Employment.PREVWORK5 1 | Category of previous employment | PREVWORK | 2 |
Q19 | Employment.PREVWORK6 1 | Category of previous employment | PREVWORK | 2 |
Q19 | Employment.PREVWORK7 1 | Category of previous employment | PREVWORK | 2 |
N/A | NONQTS | No Newly Qualified Teacher Status | NONQTS 4 | 1 |
Q20 | Teaching.EMPLDTEACH | Employed as a teacher | EMPLDTEACH | 1 |
Q21 | Teaching.GTCSTIS | GTC Scotland Teacher Induction Scheme | GTCSTIS | 1 |
Q22 | Teaching.TEACHFUND | Teaching funded | TEACHFUND | 1 |
Q23 | Teaching.TEACHPHS | Teaching phase | TEACHPHS | 1 |
Q24 | Teaching.SEEKTEACH | Seeking a teaching post | SEEKTEACH | 1 |
Q25 | Study.TYPEQUAL | Type of qualification | TYPEQUAL | 2 |
Q26 | Study.COURSENAME | Course name | COURSENAME | 200 |
Q27 | Study.SUBJECT | Subject of study | SUBJECT | 200 |
Q28 | Study.UCNAME | Name of university or college | UCNAME | 50 |
Q29 | Study.STUDYFUND | How funding further study | STUDYFUND | 2 |
Q30 | Student.HEWORKEXP | Higher education experience for work | HEWORKEXP | 1 |
Q31 | Student.HESTUDYEXP | Higher education experience for study | HESTUDYEXP | 1 |
Q32 | Student.HEBUSNEXP | Higher education experience for business | HEBUSNEXP | 1 |
N/A | Student.OPTOUT | Opt out from communications (1=Opted out) | OPTOUT | 1 |
N/A | Student.APRJAN | April or January survey (1=April, 2=January) | APRJAN | 1 |
1 Where data items have multiple occurrences in the CSV and fixed-length download files because more than one option can be selected from a list, the number at the end of the field name relates to the position of the option in the questionnaire. If the question has been answered, the value populated for each occurrence will be the option selected as defined in the coding manual for that question e.g. ALLACT9 would have a value of 9 to indicate 'Unemployed' was ticked. If an answer was not ticked, it will be left blank in the CSV and fixed length files. HESA will only maintain the output specification for CSV and fixed length format.
2 If the HE leaver's own student identifier has been included in the URL for the survey then they will skip straight to Section A so this field will be left blank in CSV and fixed length files.
3 OWNSTU will be populated automatically in all downloads for leavers where their own student identifier has been included in the URL for the survey.
4 For the higher education providers (HEPs) information NONQTS will record the outcome of the checkbox at the beginning of section C.
Note: With the exception of questions 30 to 32, data items with no answer will be left blank. For the higher education experience questions the data items will be coded 6 (unable to code) where the question is not answered.
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