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Geolocation Questions and Coding Index (a report on Geocoding Secondary Students' Home Addresses) November 2004

Roger Jones, (Quantitative Evaluation and Design Pty Ltd)

Note for readers

This report is one of a number of reports commissioned by MCEETYA's Performance Measurement and Reporting Taskforce (PMRT) or its predecessor the National Education Performance Monitoring Taskforce (NEPMT).

The purpose for publishing these reports on-line is to help explain decisions which are shaping the way school outcomes are being measured and reported. The publication of the reports will assist in informing the education community and public at large about the thinking behind key MCEETYA decisions on performance measures since the endorsement in 1999 of the National Goals for Schooling in the Twenty-First Century. Other reports will be of direct use to those involved in researching and debating the issues and implementing Ministers' decisions.

It should be noted that commissioned research reports assisted in the process of formulating recommendations to Ministers but may not necessarily reflect the final agreed decisions.

This particular report was commissioned by the PMRT following Ministers' decision in 2001 to report secondary student outcomes by geographic location according to their home location. It is technical in nature and includes appropriate questions to elicit information from secondary students on the locality and postcode of their permanent home address. Relating to the report are two coding indexes (also available on-line) which were developed to code the information on locality and postcode to the MCEETYA Schools Geographic Location Classification. The indexes are known as the nli-ra coder based on the National Localities Index and the pc-book coder based on postcodes plus locality names.

The report does not necessarily represent the views of either MCEETYA Ministers or PMRT members.

This report may be downloaded here
The nli-ra coder and pc-book coders can also be downloaded here
(Please note that this file is an excel spreadsheet and that the nli-ra coder is 1104 pages long and the pc-book coder 552 pages long)

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