1 Placement & Retention with Data in California Chuck Wiseley CCC Chancellor’s Office Data Quality Institute – Phoenix 2006

2 Agenda Why bother VTEA requirements Students Money Data What data? Data sources Ways of Collecting the data Auditable sources

3 Choices Academic/Fiscal Year Enrolled: July 1 – June 30 Use June 30 as exit Employment: Q4, October - December Retention: Q4, October - December & Q2, April – June Second & fourth quarters after enrollment Enrolled: July 1 – June 30 Use last quarter enrolled as exit quarter Employment: always 2 nd quarter after exit quarter Retention: always 2 nd & 4 th quarters after exit quarter

4 Choices using 2003 Academic/Fiscal Year ( cohort) Enrolled: July 1, 2002 – June 30, 2003 Employment: October-December (Q4), 2003 Retention: April – June (Q2), 2004 Second & (second & fourth) quarters after enrollment Last EnrolledEmployment QuarterRetention Quarter Summer Q12003 Q3 Fall2003 Q22003 Q4 Winter2003 Q32004 Q1 Spring2003 Q42004 Q2 * Note: Retention is both second and fourth quarters

5 Data matching enrollees Not re-enrolled in earnings Waited until 2004 Q2 was in Either match data October 2003 – June 2004 July 2002 – June 2004 Single data match for either method CA does forty quarters to get prewages

6 Pros & Cons Fiscal year Pros Uses the same time period for all exitors Labor market conditions same Same period for transfers Cons Uses Fall / Winter months (Oct-Dec) – think CA v MN Retention based on those using Apr-June (retail?) Fall exitors at mo. vs. 4-6 mo. for Spring exitors Natural decline in UI base wage file (3% per year)

7 Pros & Cons Second and fourth quarter after exit Pros Uses the same elapsed time after exit Evens out seasonal labor market conditions Reduces problems due decline in UI base wage file Cons Sounds complicated Labor market conditions not same Same period for transfers

8 California numbers 0203 Current method 79.2% Employed 83.5% Retained Fiscal 72.9% Employed 91.2% Retained 2 & 4 quarters after 73.1% Employed 91.2% Retained Long term employment (employed x retained) 66.1% % %

9 CA viewed in a table CA CurrentFiscal Year 2 & 4 Qtrs After Employed79.15%72.94%73.12% Retained83.48%91.18%91.24% Long Term66.08%66.50%66.71%

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