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Number of Workforce Australia Services participants on caseload by employment region, cohort and allowance group 1.0

Definition

A count of participants who were in service in the Workforce Australia Services program at the data extraction date, disaggregated by participant employment region, cohort and allowance group.

​Workforce Australia Services is the service provided through an Employment Services Provider to individuals who require more intensive support to find a job. Providers will guide individuals to manage their participation in Workforce Australia Services, including helping them to understand how to use the Points Based Activation System (PBAS), and supporting them to meet their mutual obligation requirements.

Indicator Summary

Numerator

The Numerator is formed using the following Data Elements:

Participant: Identifier, String

Contract referral placement: Identifier, Number

Contract referral placement: Contract type, Code

Contract referral placement: Status, Code

Contract referral placement: Data currency date, Date
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Denominator
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Computation

A total count of participants who were in service in Workforce Australia Services at the data extraction date, as calculated by counting participant identifiers with:

  • a related contract referral placement that has a contract type of 'PRO6' (Workforce Australia Services), and
  • 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 …

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Disaggregation

The calculation that forms this table is disaggregated by participant employment region, cohort, allowance group.

Note: all of the counts in this table are disaggregated in combination with employment region with the exception of the totals at the bottom of each column.

Data Element

Participant: Employment region, Workforce Australia code

Note:  All of the below disaggregations are used in combination with participant employment

region, with the exception of the totals at the bottom of each column.

Participant: Gender, Label

Participant: …

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Calculation rules

Computation Rule
Computation

A total count of participants who were in service in Workforce Australia Services at the data extraction date, as calculated by counting participant identifiers with:

  • a related contract referral placement that has a contract type of 'PRO6' (Workforce Australia Services), and
  • 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

The calculation that forms this table is disaggregated by participant employment region, cohort, allowance group.

Note: all of the counts in this table are disaggregated in combination with employment region with the exception of the totals at the bottom of each column.

Data Element

Participant: Employment region, Workforce Australia code

Note:  All of the below disaggregations are used in combination with participant employment

region, with the exception of the totals at the bottom of each column.

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

Participant: Refugee status, Flag

Participant: Income support category, Label 

Note: for this table, 'Others' includes participants receiving Carer payment, Disability Support Pension, Parenting Payment and other payments.

Participant: Partial or temporary work capacity, 30 hours per week flag

Participant: Parent status, Flag

Participant: Declared earnings within 28 days

Participant: Level of highest educational attainment, Education group label

Participant: Number of months in employment services, Month range label

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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Data Sets that are used in this Indicator 0