Employment Status: Field
Definition
The learner's employment status.
Reason Required
To monitor economic activity of learners, support delivery of programmes for the unemployed and establish eligibility for ESF and 16-19 (excluding Apprenticeships) funded programmes.
Schema Definitions
- XML Entity Name
- EmpStat
- Field Length
- 2
- Data type
- xs:int
- Minimum occurrences
- 1
- Maximum occurrences
- 1
- Part of
- LearnerEmploymentStatus
Collection Requirements
- 16-19 excluding Apprenticeships (FundModel 25)
- Adult Skills (FundModel 35)
- Skills Bootcamps (FundModel 37, Prog Type 32)
- Apprenticeships (FundModel 36)
- ESF (FundModel 70)
- Other Adult (FundModel 81)
- Other 16-19 (FundModel 82)
- Non-funded (FundModel 99)
Attribute Codes
| Code | Title |
|---|---|
| 10 | In paid employment |
| 11 | Not in paid employment, looking for work and available to start work |
| 12 | Not in paid employment, not looking for work and/or not available to start work |
| 98 | Not known / not provided |
Notes
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The Employment Status Monitoring fields should also be completed with the relevant ESM type where applicable, see ESM type field for further details.
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You must return complete data and must only return 'not known' in exceptional circumstances as Employment Status field is very required for ESF match funding.
Employment status definitions:
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In paid employment (code 10): Learners who have been in paid work prior to starting the learning aim or programme or who are temporarily away from a job (for example, on holiday). Also counted as in paid employment are people on government-supported training schemes and people who do unpaid work for their family's business.
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Not in paid employment and looking for work (code 11): Learners who have not been in paid work prior to starting the learning aim or programme, who are without a job, want a job, have actively sought work in the last 4 weeks and are available to start work in the next 2 weeks, or have found a job and are waiting to start it.