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Definition

A count of participants who were in service in Workforce Australia Services, Workforce Australia Online or Transition to Work programs at the data extraction date, disaggregated by participant employment region, cohort, allowance group and time registered in employment services. 

Indicator Summary

Computation

A total count of participants who were in service in any of the three employment service programs that make up Workforce Australia at the date of data extraction, as calculated by counting participant identifiers with:

  • a related contract referral placement that has a contract type of 'PRO6' (Workforce Australia Services), 'DIG6' (Workforce Australia Online) or 'TTW6' (Transition to Work),
  • a placement status code value of 'PND' (Pending), 'COM' (Commenced) or 'SUS' (Paused). 

A contract referral placement is the instance of a participant …

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Disaggregation

The calculation that forms this table is disaggregated by participant cohort, allowance group, time in service, and the employment region they reside in.

Data Element

Participant: Employment region, Workforce Australia code

Participant: Gender, Label

Participant: Gender, Label + Participant: Age group, Workforce Australia age group label

Note: in this table, participant age groups are only presented in combination with their gender 

Participant: Indigenous status, Flag

Participant: Disability status, Flag

Participant: Cultural and linguistically diverse status, Main English speaking countries flag …

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Calculation rules

Computation Rule
Computation

A total count of participants who were in service in any of the three employment service programs that make up Workforce Australia at the date of data extraction, as calculated by counting participant identifiers with:

  • a related contract referral placement that has a contract type of 'PRO6' (Workforce Australia Services), 'DIG6' (Workforce Australia Online) or 'TTW6' (Transition to Work),
  • a placement status code value of 'PND' (Pending), 'COM' (Commenced) or 'SUS' (Paused). 

A contract referral placement is the instance of a participant establishing a service relationship with a provider's site within an employment region for a specific employment service program. They are used in combination with participant identifiers for this count as a participant may have a pending placement in one program while currently commenced in another and therefore can be counted as 'in service' in more than one program at a time.

Disaggregation

Comments

For more information regarding Contract Referral Placements and how they function in our data, please see the Contract, Contract Referral, Contract Referral Placement Hierarchy glossary item. 

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Relation Count
Indicator Sets that include this Indicator 1
Data Sets that are used in this Indicator 0