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XPSES01_3.14.1

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Field description Field abbreviation Field version Field length Field type
Session population XPSES01 3.14.1 1 Char

Valid entries

Code Label
0 The instance is NOT counted within the session population
1 The instance is counted within the HE session population
2 The instance is counted within the FE session population

Dependent fields

  • XPSR01

Depend upon fields

  • TTCID
  • LOCSDY
  • EXCHANGE
  • MODE
  • ENDDATE
  • COMDATE
  • COURSEAIM
  • EXCHIND
  • XINACT01

Additional information

Standard definition:

The HESA session population is a count of all higher education and further education student instances active at a reporting higher education provider at any point in the reporting period 1 August to 31 July except:

1. dormant student instances (those who have suspended studying but have not formally de-registered)

2. incoming visiting and exchange student instances

3. postdoctoral student instances, and students primarily studying outside the UK

4. instances where the whole of the programme of study is outside of the UK

5. National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) Subject Knowledge Enhancement (SKE) student instances

6. students on sabbatical, and

7. The 'wrapper' programme aim of Apprenticeship Standards students.

This derived field is created in both the Student record (Cyy051) and the AP student record (Cyy054). The AP student record makes use of fields from a rolled-up Instance_End analysis table which reflects the position of the student in the last active instance period.

As the AP student record is collected for a smaller subset of those collected in the Student record, the Technical Specification is less complex and requires fewer exclusions.

HE levels are defined as first letter of Course.COURSEAIM = D, E, L, M, H, I, J, C.
FE levels are defined as first letter of Course.COURSEAIM = P, Q, R, S, X

Students studying primarily abroad are identified through their location of study (i.e. LOCSDY = 'S'). For the purposes of the Student record, Instance.EXCHANGE valid entries Y and Z are not used in determining location of study.

Subject Knowledge Enhancement student instances are excluded as they do not fit with the usual coverage of the record as 'students registered in the reporting higher education provider who follow courses that lead to the award of a qualification or institutional credit'.

Please note: although records returned in the Student record as Instance.REDUCEDI = '08' ('Instances present on the Student Loans Company (SLC) attendance confirmation date who do not progress beyond two weeks of their course') may be derived to 1 in this field, the absence of data in Instance.STULOAD associated with such a record will result in any FTE calculation deriving to zero, and therefore their exclusion from most analysis.

Technical Specification

Y1 is obtained by concatenating the first two digits from year in the system date with the first two digits of RECID, e.g. 01 for 2001/02.

In the Cyy051 Student record:

Course. TTCID Instance. LOCSDY Instance. EXCHANGE Instance. MODE Instance. ENDDATE Instance. COMDATE Course. COURSEAIM XPSES01
0, 1, 2, 5, 9, D, Q, null 6, 9, C, D, E, H, J, K, T, U, Z, null N, Y, Z, null 01, 02, 12, 13, 14, 23, 24, 25, 31, 33-36, 38, 39, 43, 44, 65, 73, 74, 99 >=1 AUG Y1, null <=31 JUL Y1+1 All codes beginning D, E, L, M, H, I, J, C 1
All codes beginning P, Q, R, S, X 2
Z99 0
>31 JUL Y1+1, null 0
<1 AUG Y1 0
51, 63, 64, 98 0
4, G 0
S 0
F 0

In the Cyy054 AP student record:

Instance_End. LOCSDY Instance_End. EXCHIND Instance. XINACT01 Instance. ENDDATE Instance. COMDATE XPSES01
6, 9, D, E, T, U, Z 2, 3 0 >=1 AUG Y1, null <=31 JUL Y1+1 1
> 31 JUL Y1+1, null 0
<1 AUG Y1 0
1 0
1 0
S 0

Revision history

Date Version Notes
2017-06-01 3.14.1 Technical specification for the Cyy051 Student record updated to cater for instances where the Course.COURSEAIM is returned as Z99
2016-11-01 3.13.1 Addition of new Instance.MODE code 98 to the technical specification for the Cyy051 Student record, with associated text regarding Apprenticeship Standards added to the exclusions in the standard definition section. Deletion of Course.TTCID valid entries 8 and G
2014-10-16 3.12.1 Addition of new section in the Technical Specification to allow for processing in the AP student record, with a corresponding update to the Additional Information section text to describe the derivation of this derived field on that record. The Course.TTCID codes used in the Student record derivation have been revised in line with changes to the valid entries in that field
2013-10-02 3.11.1 Addition of new Course.TTCID codes L, M, N and P to technical specification, with removal of deleted codes J and K. Addition of new Instance.LOCSDY codes T, U, and Z to technical specification, with removal of deleted codes A, B, F, G, M, N, P, Q, R and X. Addition of new Instance.EXCHANGE codes G and N to technical specification, with removal of deleted codes 0, 2, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D and E. Addition of new Instance.MODE code 99 to technical specification, with removal of deleted codes 32, 37, 52, 53, 66, 67, 68 and 69. Change of name from 'Teaching Agency' to 'National College for Teaching and Leadership' in exclusion 5
2013-02-01 3.10.1 Addition of new Course.TTCID codes G, H, J and K to technical specification. References to the Training and Development Agency (TDA) updated to Teaching Agency (TA). Note added to Additional Information regarding the treatment of records submitted as reduced return type 08
2012-02-17 3.9.1 Removal of references to the Student Associates Scheme (SAS) from exclusion 5 and Additional Information, due to the ending of this scheme. Corresponding TTCID entry of E removed from Technical Specification
2011-01-31 3.8.1 Added new codes for Instance.EXCHANGE of Y and Z, and note added to indicate that students studying primarily abroad are identified through their location of study
2010-06-23 3.7.1 Updated for null values of Instance.LOCSDY and Course.TTCID added
2010-04-08 3.6.1 Amended text, Instance.EXCHANGE codes updated and Instance.LOCSDY and Course.TTCID added
2009-03-13 3.5.2 Format changes only. Field type added. No change to technical specification
2008-11-15 3.5.1 Amended spec to deal with changes for new Student record
2005-02-21 3.4.1 04/05 move QUALAIM code 63 to FE level
2004-02-13 3.3.1 03/04 changes to SPCSTU, MODE, LOCSDY and QUALAIM
2003-02-11 3.2.1 02/03 changes to SPCSTU, MODE, LOCSDY and QUALAIM
2002-03-25 3.1.1 Valid entry changes
2002-03-08 2.2.2 Foundation degree QUALAIM code 28 added and clarification of reporting period in technical spec
2001-02-27 2.1.1 Incoming exchange students excluded from population
1998-12-03 1.1.2 Code modified due to QUALAIM codes 79 and 80 being deleted from program code
1998-09-28 1.1.1 Replaces POPSES, POPSESFE, POPNOTSES

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