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 Acronyms  AGS Rounds  Production and Population ◦ Survey Population ◦ Survey Population Do’s and Don’ts ◦ Form and id Production ◦ oAGS id’s  Processing ◦ Processing Procedure ◦ Return Dates  START (url:

 AGS – Australian Graduate Survey ◦ GDS – Graduate Destinations Survey ◦ CEQ – Course Experience Questionnaire ◦ PREQ – Postgraduate Research Experience Questionnaire

 2 rounds every survey  “Financial year”  Round 1 ◦ October (mid year completions)  Reference date: October 31  Commencement date: October 1  Round 2 ◦ April (end of year completions)  Reference date: April 30  Commencement date: April 1

 Round 1 (October) ◦ Includes all students who completed course between January 1 and June 30  Round 2 (April) ◦ Includes all students who completed course between July 1 and December 31  PREQ ◦ Includes all graduants who complete a research-based higher degree (master degree by research or doctorate by research)

 DO include ◦ Course completers/graduands continuing to honours ◦ Graduands completing assoc degrees or diplomas ◦ Domestic or internationals who are situated off-shore but studied at an Australian campus via distance education  DON’T include ◦ Off-shore graduands – people who studied at a campus outside Australia ◦ Deceased graduands (this one is rare!)

 GCA send out an “Order form” for hard-copy forms and ids  SM send orders to GCA  GCA create the artwork for the hard copy forms  GCA send proof work to SM for checking  SM approves forms  GCA sign off on art work  GCA send printed forms or pdf art work to SM

 oAGS id’s: ◦ CEQ id’s = (GDS + CEQ) ◦ PREQ id’s = (GDS + PREQ)  oCEQ id’s: ◦ oCEQ id’s = (CEQ only) ◦ oPREQ id’s = (PREQ only)

 Collate returned hard-copy forms  Download oAGS responses  Code all responses  Either scan or data enter all responses  Finalise data file for return to GCA  GCA process and finalise data file  Data file checked by SM  National data file compiled

 Collate returned hard-copy forms  Return forms to GCA  GCA download AGS responses  GCA code all responses  GCA scan all responses  GCA process and finalise data file  Data file checked by SM  National data file compiled

 Uncoded or partly coded forms ◦ Friday 7 September, 2012  Completely coded forms ◦ Friday 14 September, 2012  Completed data file ◦ Friday 21 September, 2012

 Survey Training and Resources Tool  Available to all Survey Managers  URL:  New Survey Managers section for further information

 DIISRTE currently undertaking a review of the AGS  Round tables in Feb  Report released last week  2013 AGS business as usual