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Aligning Employment Reporting with Title I

American Institutes for ResearchFebruary 2005

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Need for Alignment of Reporting Need for Alignment of Reporting PeriodsPeriods OMB requires alignment of common

employment measures Adult education and Title I reported on

different program years Title I behind due to three quarter lag

in UI data system Applies only to entered and retained

employment measures

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Title I Reporting PeriodTitle I Reporting Period Covers two years to allow for lag in UI

data systems Multi-year reporting is the only way a

complete year of participant data can be reported for all measures

Entered and retained employment data cover different student cohorts

Participant data covers different student cohort

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Alignment PlanAlignment Plan PY 2005 is transition year—report as

usual, but… Some entered and retained

employment data will be reported in PY 2005 and again in PY 2006

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Entered and Retained Entered and Retained Employment: PY 2006 ReportingEmployment: PY 2006 Reporting Entered Employment collected on

students with employment goal who exit October 1, 2005 to September 30, 2006

Retained employment collected on students who exit April 1, 2005 to March 31, 2006

All other measures reported the same way as now

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Retained Employment & Retained Employment & EarningsEarnings

(all who exited this period)

Entered EmploymentEntered Employment

(all who exited this period)

Participant Data Reported:Participant Data Reported: PY 2006 PY 2006

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Data Matching States: Match must follow Title I procedures for PY

2006 Reporting Match in last calendar quarter of 2007

Survey States: Must survey for retained employment all

quarters beginning with cohort exiting in fourth quarter of PY 2005

Must keep survey records two years

How Do We Implement Common How Do We Implement Common Reporting?Reporting?

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RememberRemember PY 2005 reporting same as now Survey states: collect retained

employment beginning fourth quarter exiting students

First report with common employment reporting due December 31, 2007

ONLY Employment measures are affected

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