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700S (U,W,X): Unemployed Students Who Became Employed

Among students in selected student journey who exited the community college system and did not transfer to any postsecondary institution, the proportion of students who were unemployed and became employed after exiting college

Value Type

Percentage and unduplicated count of students

Data Source(s)

Employment Development Department Unemployment Insurance Wage File
Chancellor's Office Management Information System

The exiter definition only includes students as exiters if they re-enrolled at any postsecondary institution from 07/01 of the selected year to 06/30 of the subsequent year.
Information is only shown for students with a valid social security number, therefore figures may be understated
Unemployment Insurance data contain wages only for those employed in an occupation or industry covered by Unemployment Insurance in California. This excludes individuals employed by the military or federal government, and those who are self-employed, employed out of state, unemployed, or not in the workforce after completion of an award.
A student's academic year of entry is the most recent year in which a student was enrolled at any college and had no enrollments in the prior academic year at any college
A student's academic year of exit is the end of the academic year in which they were last enrolled in the community college system

Student Enrollment File

208S Students who met all of the following criteria:

Unemployed in the first fiscal quarter before first-time entry or re-entry into the system after an academic year of exit
Student matched in UI wage file in the first fiscal quarter before first-time entry or re-entry into the system after an academic year of exit
AND employed in the second fiscal quarter after exit
AND Student matched in UI wage file in the fourth fiscal quarter of the calendar year of exit
AND count students at any college where the student is enrolled as a 122SX, 122SU or 122SW student in the selected year

208S All Students Who Exited Higher Education who did not have a wage record in the EDD UI Wage file in the first fiscal quarter before entry

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Last Updated

05/22/2025

Student Group

Comprehensive Snapshot

Metric Type

Success

Subjourney

U,W,X

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