Definition
The Self-Employment Assistance (SEA) program provides participants (clients) with a range of services aimed at supporting those individuals to start a small business or improve their existing micro-business. More information on the program and the included services is available on the Workforce Australia Self-Employment Assistance page.
Data on participant cohorts, program completions, and industry of businesses is regularly released in the Self-Employment Assistance Data publication. The Self-Employment Assistance Publication Data Tables provides definitions and supporting information on the data items used within this publication. Listed Data Elements can be selected to access more information on the associated data item.
Data source details
Path name | Data Element | Definition | Data Type | Physical Data Type | Format |
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Activity Type Code; Service Type | Contract referral placement: Self-Employment Assistance activity type, Code |
The Self-Employment Assistance (SEA) activity that a given contract referral placement refers to, represented as a code. |
- | - | XXX[X] |
Coaching Agreement Count | Small business coaching agreement: Agreement creation, Flag |
The instance of a unique small business coaching agreement being created, represented as a flag. |
- | - | - |
Direct Registration | Contract referral placement: Direct registration status, Flag |
Whether the participant (client) registered for employment services directly with the Self-Employment Assistance provider, as represented by a flag. |
- | - | - |
SEA Allowance | Contract referral placement: On self-employment allowance, Flag |
Whether the participant that a given contract referral placement relates to is receiving the Self-Employment Allowance as part of participating in Small Business Coaching, represented by a flag. |
- | - | - |
Business Plan Approved Count | Business plan: Approved status, Flag |
Whether a given business plan has been granted approval as meeting the expectations of a business plan developed through the Self-Employment Assistance program, represented as a flag. |
- | - | - |
Business Plan ID | Business plan: Identifier, String |
The unique identifier belonging to a specific business plan, represented as a string. |
String | - | X[X(49)] |
Participation End Date | Period of participation: End date, Financial year |
The point in time the participant’s period of participation ended, as represented by the financial year that it belonged to. |
- | - | YYYY/YY |
Contract Type Code | Contract referral placement: Contract type, Code |
The employment service program that the participant that a contract referral placement relates to has been referred to, as represented by a code. |
String | - | XXX[X] |
Participant State | Participant: Australian state/territory identifier, Code |
The Australian state or territory a participant's residential address belongs to, as represented by a code. |
String | - | X[4] |
Site State | Employment services site: Australian state/territory, Code |
The Australian state or territory to which the address of an employment services site belongs, as represented by a code. |
String | - | X[4] |
Allowance Code; Allowance Group; On Any Allowance | Participant: Income support category, Label |
The category of benefit that a given participant is receiving from an Australian Government entity, represented by a set of labels. |
- | - | - |
Commencement Date | Contract referral placement: Start date, Date |
The point in time that an individual's contract referral placement started or commenced, represented as a date. |
Date | - | YYYY-MM-DD |
Placement Status Code | Contract referral placement: Status, Code |
Whether a contract referral placement is commenced, pending, transferred, exited or suspended, as represented by a code. |
String | - | XXX |
Job Seeker ID | Participant: Identifier, String |
A combination of alphanumeric or special characters that identify a participant, as represented by a string. |
String | - | X[X(49)] |
Contract Referral Placement ID | Contract referral placement: Identifier, Number |
The unique identifier for a contract referral placement, as represented by a number. |
Number | - | N[N(49)] |
Participation Engagement | Period of participation: Active engagement, Flag |
Whether a participant (client) has actively engaged in the Self-Employment Assistance program at any point during a given period of participation, represented by a flag. A participant is deemed to have engaged if they have an approved business plan, have commenced an activity referral, and/or have commenced small business coaching. |
- | - | - |
Participation Exit Count | Period of participation: Exited flag, Flag |
Whether an individual has exited a given period of participation, represented as a flag. |
Boolean | - | X[XXX] |
Coaching Commencement Count | Small business coaching agreement: Commencement count, Flag |
Whether a participant has commenced the approved coaching agreement, as represented by a flag. Following a participant’s commencement in small business coaching, the provider must offer the participant mentoring, support and coaching for up to 52 weeks, only ending early if they voluntarily exit or are non-compliant with the coaching agreement. |
- | - | - |
Participation Exit Code | Period of participation: Employment services exit reason, Self employment assistance code |
The reason the participant that a given period of participation relates to has exited an employment services program, represented by a code. |
- | - | XXX[X] |
Caseload Count | Contract referral placement: Commenced or pending, Flag |
Whether an individual's contract referral placement is commenced or pending at a given point in time, represented as a flag. |
- | - | - |
Business Industry Division Code | Business: Industry division, Code |
The industry classification for the business, at the division level as defined as per the Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC) 2006, represented by a code. |
- | - | X |
Business Industry Subdivision Code | Business: Industry subdivision, Code |
The industry classification for the business, at the subdivision level as defined as per the Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC) 2006, represented by a code. |
- | - | XX |
Participant Agreement ID | Small business coaching agreement: Identifier, String |
The unique identifier that belongs to a given small business coaching agreement, represented as a string. |
String | - | X[X(49)] |
Micro Business | Small business coaching agreement: Pre-existing business, Flag |
Whether the participant's business existed prior to commencing the Self-Employment Assistance small business coaching agreement, represented as a flag. |
- | - | - |
Business ID | Business: Identifier, String |
The unique identifier of an individual’s most recent business that is associated with employment services, as assigned by the Employment System, represented as a string. |
String | - | X[X(49)] |
Potential Partnerships | Business: Multiple associated participants, Flag |
The instance of a business identifier being listed within multiple participant's small business coaching agreements, indicating the possibility of a business partnership, as represented by a flag. |
- | - | - |
Referral End Date | Contract Referral Placement: Placement End Date |
The point in time that the contract referral placement ended or ceased, represented as a date. |
Date | - | YYYY-MM-DD |
Female; Male | Participant: Gender, Label |
The way in which a given participant identifies their masculine or feminine characteristics, as represented by the binary label most closely related to the individual's sense of gender. An individual's gender relates to their deeply held internal and individual sense of gender and is not always exclusively male or female. It may or may not correspond to their sex assigned at birth. |
- | - | - |
Age | Participant: Age, Years | The age of a given participant in (completed) years at a specific point in time. | Number | - | N[NN] |
Indigenous | Participant: Indigenous status, Flag | The Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander origin identified by a given person, represented by a flag. | Boolean | - | X[XXX] |
People With Disability | Participant: Disability status, Flag | The experience of disability, impairment or condition identified by a given participant, as represented by a flag. | Boolean | - | X[XXX] |
Culturally And Linguistically Diverse | Participant: Cultural and linguistically diverse status, Main English speaking countries flag |
Whether a participant has been identified as culturally and ligustically diverse (CALD) as determined by whether their country of birth is a main-English-speaking Country, as represented by a flag. |
Boolean | - | X[XXX] |
Refugee | Participant: Refugee status, Flag | Whether a participant has been granted a refugee or special humanitarian visa by the Australian Government, as represented by a flag. | Boolean | - | A[AAA] |
Parent | Participant: Parent status, Flag |
Whether a given participant has identified as holding parenting or guardianship responsibilities for one or more dependent children under the age of 16 in their care, as represented by a flag. In the context of employment services, this is determined by whether a participant is receiving a parenting payment or have parenting participation requirements. |
Boolean | - | X[XXX] |
With Declared Earnings | Participant: Declared earnings within 28 days, Flag |
Whether a participant has indicated to Services Australia that they have reported earnings or income in the last 28 days, as represented by a flag. |
Boolean | - | X[XXX] |
Education | Participant: Level of highest educational attainment, Education group label |
The highest level of academic qualification achieved by a given participant in relation to completed education, represented by the education group labels. |
- | - | - |
Homeless | Participant: Homelessness status, Flag |
Whether a participant has been identified as homeless or living in unstable accommodation, represented by a flag. |
Boolean | - | X[XXX] |
Ex-Offender | Participant: Ex offender status, Flag | Whether a participant has identified as having previous criminal convictions, as represented by a flag. | Boolean | - | X[XXX] |
Mental Health | Participant: Mental health status, Assessed Flag | Whether a participant has been assessed by a medical professional as experiencing a mental health related disability, impairment or condition, represented by a flag. | Boolean | - | X[XXX] |
Drug And Alcohol | Participant: Drug and alcohol status, Flag |
Whether a participant has been assessed as experiencing barriers to employment related to drug and/or alcohol dependencies, as represented by a flag. |
Boolean | - | X[XXX] |