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Table 2.16 Completion of SYETP placement
% completing % dismissed % voluntarily
withdrew
% of approved
time used
SYETP
76.9 4.4 18.4 91.0
Commonwealth
2nd SYETP 81.2 2.9 14.6 92.1
Commonwealth
SYETP private 55.3 18.5 25.5 76.6
2nd SYETP 52.6 23.7 23.1 74.9
private
Extended SYETP 23.1 24.9 32.7 56.7
(1)
For All SYETP 52.8 17.4 25.8
Source: BLMR (1983) p 22 Table 3.6. Data is Department of Employment and Industrial Relations
administrative records for commencements to the programme in 1980-81, which thus only refer to ‘flow’
into the programme and not the total number or ‘stock’ being treated at any one time. Durations are for all
completed or terminated placements up to Jan 1982. Table shows proportion completing the full subsidy
period, terminating for other reason, and these percentages approximately sum across to 100 for each
programme, with any discrepancy the few who were still in training at the analysis time point. The
percentage of approved time used is then of the eligible subsidy period. ‘2 nd SYETP’ placements refer to
commencements where this was the 2 nd eligible 17 week period of SYETP assistance – i.e. multiple
placements. (1) 19.4 % of extended SYETP were still in training at the time.
Importantly, an intended sequence to programme attendance was sometimes used for
placements. Thus, several programmes might be attended, for example combinations of
education-based EPUY and employment in SYETP in sequence. It was found that in
these data, which covered the period of one year and were then subject to censoring
limitations, 8.3 per cent were multiple placements, and of these 24 per cent were
combinations of education and employment based programmes and a further 30 per cent
were split SYETP placements (indicating a high level of movement between SYETP
programme placements within the 17 weeks of subsidy).