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2000

Measurement of socioeconomic status

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Issues On The Utilization Of Student Data For The Monitoring Of The Relationship Between Social Background And Educational Outcomes, Gary Marks, Silvia Mccormack, Julie Mcmillan Aug 2011

Issues On The Utilization Of Student Data For The Monitoring Of The Relationship Between Social Background And Educational Outcomes, Gary Marks, Silvia Mccormack, Julie Mcmillan

Julie McMillan

Report for the National Education Performance Monitoring Taskforce. MCEETYA


The Measurement Of Language Background, Culture And Ethnicity For The Reporting Of Nationally Comparable Outcomes Of Schooling, John Ainley, Tracey Frigo, Gary Marks, Silvia Mccormack, Julie Mcmillan, Marion Meiers, Susan Zammit Jul 2000

The Measurement Of Language Background, Culture And Ethnicity For The Reporting Of Nationally Comparable Outcomes Of Schooling, John Ainley, Tracey Frigo, Gary Marks, Silvia Mccormack, Julie Mcmillan, Marion Meiers, Susan Zammit

Julie McMillan

Report for the National Education Performance Monitoring Taskforce. MCEETYA (Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs) .


The Measurement Of Socioeconomic Status For The Reporting Of Nationally Comparable Outcomes Of Schooling, Gary Marks, Julie Mcmillan, Frank Jones, John Ainley Feb 2000

The Measurement Of Socioeconomic Status For The Reporting Of Nationally Comparable Outcomes Of Schooling, Gary Marks, Julie Mcmillan, Frank Jones, John Ainley

Julie McMillan

The main purpose of this discussion paper is to develop a common definition of socioeconomic position to be used for reporting of nationally comparable outcomes of schooling within the context of the statement of National Goals for Schooling in the Twentyfirst Century. Report for the National Education Performance Monitoring Taskforce. MCEETYA


Measurement Of The Socio-Economic Status Of Australian Higher Education Students, Julie Mcmillan, John Western Feb 2000

Measurement Of The Socio-Economic Status Of Australian Higher Education Students, Julie Mcmillan, John Western

Julie McMillan

The underrepresentation of persons from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds in higher education in countries such as Australia is of policy concern. In order to be able to identify such individuals for targeted interventions and to monitor their participation rates, it is necessary to have an accurate, simple to administer, and relatively inexpensive method of measuring students' socio-economic characteristics. We demonstrate that the postcode methodology currently used by the Australian Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs (DETYA) for monitoring purposes, while being relatively simple and inexpensive to administer, is subject to considerable error. A student is allocated the `average' socio-economic status …


The Anu3_2 Scale: A Revised Occupational Status Scale For Australia, F Jones, Julie Mcmillan Jan 2000

The Anu3_2 Scale: A Revised Occupational Status Scale For Australia, F Jones, Julie Mcmillan

Julie McMillan

Australian researchers have used ANU status scales for over two decades to assign socioeconomic status scores to occupations coded into the occupational classifications produced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). When the ABS has released new occupational classifications in the past, the ANU scale has been updated accordingly. The most recent status scale, the ANU3 scale, was developed in 1989 for use with the First Edition of the Australian Standard Classification of Occupations (ASCO). In 1996, however, the ABS released the Second Edition of ASCO. In this paper, we report an adaptation of the ANU3 scale for use with …


Scoring Of Occupational Categories For Social Research, Julie Mcmillan, F Jones Dec 1999

Scoring Of Occupational Categories For Social Research, Julie Mcmillan, F Jones

Julie McMillan

No abstract provided.


Social Background And Educational Outcomes: Preliminary Results From The Longitudinal Surveys Of Australian Youth, Gary Marks, Julie Mcmillan Dec 1999

Social Background And Educational Outcomes: Preliminary Results From The Longitudinal Surveys Of Australian Youth, Gary Marks, Julie Mcmillan

Julie McMillan

Report for the National Education Performance Monitoring Taskforce.