Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education record 2016/17
Online DLHE file layout
Version 1.1 Produced 2017-04-28
The Online DLHE survey data can be downloaded from Bristol Online Survey (BOS). The questionnaire output files are available in the following file formats: fixed-length file (.TXT) and, comma separated value (.CSV)
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 | Institution.RECID | Record type indicator | RECID | 5 |
| N/A | Institution.UKPRN | UK Provider Reference Number | UKPRN | 8 |
| N/A | PIN | PIN number | PIN | 10 |
| N/A | OWNSTU | Provider's own identifier for student | OWNSTU | 20 |
| N/A | Student.STATUS | Status of data collection | STATUS | 2 |
| N/A | FNAMES | Forenames | FNAMES | 100 |
| N/A | SURNAME | Surname | SURNAME | 100 |
| N/A | ADDRESS1 | Address Line 1 | ADDRESS1 | 50 |
| N/A | ADDRESS2 | Address Line 2 | ADDRESS2 | 50 |
| N/A | ADDRESS3 | Address Line 3 | ADDRESS3 | 50 |
| N/A | TOWNCITY | Town or City | TOWNCITY | 50 |
| N/A | COUNTY | County, Region or State | COUNTY | 50 |
| N/A | POSTCODE | Postal or Zip Code | POSTCODE | 8 |
| N/A | COUNTRY | Country | COUNTRY | 50 |
| N/A | TELEPHONE | Telephone | TELEPHONE | 30 |
| N/A | EMAIL_ID | Email address | EMAIL_ID | 80 |
| N/A | COURSE_STUDIED | Title of course studied | COURSE_STUDIED | 255 |
| Q1 | Student.ALLACT1 | All activities | ALLACT | 1 |
| Q1 | Student.ALLACT2 | All activities | ALLACT | 1 |
| Q1 | Student.ALLACT4 | All activities | ALLACT | 1 |
| Q1 | Student.ALLACT5 | All activities | ALLACT | 1 |
| Q1 | Student.ALLACT6 | All activities | ALLACT | 1 |
| Q1 | Student.ALLACT7 | All activities | ALLACT | 1 |
| Q1 | Student.ALLACT8 | All activities | ALLACT | 1 |
| Q1 | Student.ALLACT9 | 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.NHSORG | NHS organisation | NHSORG | 1 |
| Q15 | Employment.QUALREQ | Qualification required for job | QUALREQ | 2 |
| Q16 | Employment.EMPIMP | Importance to employer | EMPIMP | 1 |
| Q17 | Employment.JOBRSNALL1 | All reasons for taking the job | JOBRSNALL | 2 |
| Q17 | Employment.JOBRSNALL2 | All reasons for taking the job | JOBRSNALL | 2 |
| Q17 | Employment.JOBRSNALL3 | All reasons for taking the job | JOBRSNALL | 2 |
| Q17 | Employment.JOBRSNALL4 | All reasons for taking the job | JOBRSNALL | 2 |
| Q17 | Employment.JOBRSNALL5 | All reasons for taking the job | JOBRSNALL | 2 |
| Q17 | Employment.JOBRSNALL6 | All reasons for taking the job | JOBRSNALL | 2 |
| Q17 | Employment.JOBRSNALL7 | All reasons for taking the job | JOBRSNALL | 2 |
| Q17 | Employment.JOBRSNALL8 | All reasons for taking the job | JOBRSNALL | 2 |
| Q17 | Employment.JOBRSNALL9 | All reasons for taking the job | JOBRSNALL | 2 |
| Q17 | Employment.JOBRSNMAIN | Main reason for taking the job | JOBRSNMAIN | 2 |
| Q18 | Employment.JOBFOUND | How found job | JOBFOUND | 2 |
| Q19 | Employment.PREVEM | Previous employed | PREVEM | 1 |
| Q20 | Employment.PREVWORK1 | Category of previous employment | PREVWORK | 2 |
| Q20 | Employment.PREVWORK2 | Category of previous employment | PREVWORK | 2 |
| Q20 | Employment.PREVWORK3 | Category of previous employment | PREVWORK | 2 |
| Q20 | Employment.PREVWORK4 | Category of previous employment | PREVWORK | 2 |
| Q20 | Employment.PREVWORK5 | Category of previous employment | PREVWORK | 2 |
| Q20 | Employment.PREVWORK6 | Category of previous employment | PREVWORK | 2 |
| Q20 | Employment.PREVWORK7 | Category of previous employment | PREVWORK | 2 |
| N/A | NONQTS | No Newly Qualified Teacher Status | NONQTS | 1 |
| Q21 | Teaching.EMPLDTEACH | Employed as a teacher | EMPLDTEACH | 1 |
| Q22 | Teaching.GTCSTIS | GTC Scotland Teacher Induction Scheme | GTCSTIS | 1 |
| Q23 | Teaching.TEACHFUND | Teaching funded | TEACHFUND | 1 |
| Q24 | Teaching.TEACHPHS | Teaching phase | TEACHPHS | 1 |
| Q25 | Teaching.SEEKTEACH | Seeking a teaching post | SEEKTEACH | 1 |
| Q26 | Study.TYPEQUAL | Type of qualification | TYPEQUAL | 2 |
| Q27 | Study.COURSENAME | Course name | COURSENAME | 200 |
| Q28 | Study.SUBJECT | Subject of study | SUBJECT | 200 |
| Q29 | Study.UCNAME | Name of university or college | UCNAME | 50 |
| Q30 | Study.STUDYFUND | How funding further study | STUDYFUND | 2 |
| Q31 | Student.HEWORKEXP | Higher education experience for work | HEWORKEXP | 1 |
| Q32 | Student.HESTUDYEXP | Higher education experience for study | HESTUDYEXP | 1 |
| Q33 | 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 |
For the telephone survey in BOS three new fields have been added to record the details of the telephone call:
- Name of person making the call – name of member of staff making the call, Free text 80 characters
- Name of Person spoken to – name of the person who answered the phone, Free text 80 characters
- Time of call – time the call was made, Free text 16 characters, but suggested format is YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm
| CALLER | |
| SPOKE_TO | |
| CALL_TIMESTAMP |
There will now be two output files in BOS, one for the Teaching/Non-Teaching template and the other for the Telephone survey. The additional fields for the Telephone survey have been added to the end of the output file.
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.
UKPRN will not be populated automatically in the download from BOS and therefore, providers will be required to populate this themselves.
OWNSTU will be populated automatically in all downloads for leavers where their own student identifier has been included in the URL for the survey.
Note: With the exception of questions 31 to 33, data items with no answer will be left blank in all file formats. For the higher education experience questions the data items will be coded 6 (unable to code) where the question is not answered.
For the higher education providers information NONQTS will record the outcome of the checkbox at the beginning of section C.
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