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Staff 2016/17 - Contract identifier

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Staff 2016/17

Fields required from institutions in England

Contract identifier


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Typefield
Short nameCONTID
Description

This field records the unique code allocated to each contract

Applicable toEngland Northern Ireland Scotland Wales
Coverage

All contracts

Notes

The combination of Person.STAFFID and Contract.CONTID field must be unique within a higher education provider's (HEP's) submission.

In the absence of any existing data items, a HEP might choose to complete this field with a sequential number for each contract held by each person. In this case, the first contract for each person would have a value of 1, the second would have a value of 2 and so on. In this case, we would expect the majority of contract records to have a value of 1 in this field.

Once allocated, the value in this field should not change over time. This will facilitate the analysis of patterns of employment in the higher education sector over time.

Entry is restricted to unaccented alphanumeric characters only.

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Reason required

To identify each contract

Part of
Field length20
Minimum occurrences1
Maximum occurrences1
Schema components
Element: CONTID
Data type: CONTIDType
OwnerHESA
Version1.0

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