[Unistats] [Fwd: Re: Elements E484 and E485 in Enrolment file]

[Robert RISPOLI]

I don't see why it's a problem for you.

You can fill the fields with junk or anything else you want and you still need to keep the same record length.

Why is Andrea  "getting data in the wrong place"?



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wendy Marchment [mailto:wendy.marchment at adelaide.edu.au] 
> Sent: Wednesday, 17 March 2004 10:56 AM
> To: Unistats
> Subject: [Unistats] [Fwd: Re: Elements E484 and E485 in 
> Enrolment file]
> 
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> We discovered that elements E484 and E485 have not been 
> removed from the
> enrolment file structure in DESTPAC. See messages below to DEST.
> Does this affect anyone else?
> 
> Wendy
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Elements E484 and E485 in Enrolment file
> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:45:55 +1030
> From: Andrea Matulick <andrea.matulick at adelaide.edu.au>
> Organization: The University of Adelaide
> To: Jan.AAMODT at Dest.gov.au
> CC: "Marchment, Wendy" <wendy.marchment at adelaide.edu.au>
> References: <200403162222.i2GMMhXV026877 at name-ext1.dewr.gov.au>
> 
> Hi Jan,
> 
> Unfortunately removal of E484 and E485 was made official in 
> the 'Changes
> for 2004.doc' (copy attached) so our IT staff have already altered our
> file structure to remove them. There was nothing in the 
> readme.txt file.
> Was there any official notification to Uni's to leave them in? Can you
> tell me how many other Uni's have already 
> altered their enrolment file to remove these elements? (We 
> are very busy
> and would prefer not 
> to spend time changing file structures again at this stage).
> 
> Andrea.
> 
> Jan.AAMODT at Dest.gov.au wrote:
> > 
> > Andrea
> > 
> > Happy Wednesday.
> > 
> > Yes you are using the correct version of Destpac.
> > 
> > E484 and E485 were notified to universities as new Elements and were
> > incorporated into data structures.  A DEST decision was then made to
> > ditch E484 and E485.  At that stage we did not think it 
> would be a good
> > idea to have universities restructure files (yet again) so it was
> > decided that the Elements could remain in the structure and could be
> > filled with whatever.
> > 
> > cheers
> > 
> > Jan
> > 
> > Jan Aamodt
> > University Statistics Section
> > Department of Education, Science & Training
> > Phone: 00  11  61  2  62407215
> > Fax:     00  11  61  2  61235155
> > Email:  jan.aamodt at dest.gov.au
> > Internet: www.dest.gov.au/highered/statinfo.htm
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andrea Matulick [mailto:andrea.matulick at adelaide.edu.au]
> > Sent: Thursday, 11 March 2004 17:54
> > To: AAMODT,Jan
> > Subject: Elements E484 and E485 in Enrolment file
> > 
> > Hi Jan,
> > 
> > Happy whatever day.
> > 
> > I understood that elements E484 and E485 were to be removed from the
> > Enrol file for 2004.
> > Howvere I noticed they are still in the DESTPAC 7.01.03 
> 2004 Helpfile
> > and the data structure when converted into the Access 
> database. As we
> > have already removed the elements from our file structure, we are
> > getting data in the wrong place!
> > 
> > Am I using the right version of DESTPAC?
> > 
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