Metric Definition Dictionary
801S (U,W,X,Y,Z): Median Change in Earnings of Students After Exit
Among students in selected student journey who exited the community college system and who did not transfer to any postsecondary institution, median change in earnings between the fiscal quarter two quarters prior to the academic year of entry and the fiscal quarter two quarters after the academic year of exit from the last college attended
Value Type
Median percentage change and number of students included in the equation
Data Source(s)
Employment Development Department Unemployment Insurance Dataset
National Student Clearinghouse
CSU/UC Cohort Match
Chancellor's Office Management Information System
National Student Clearinghouse
CSU/UC Cohort Match
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.
Returning students are identified as those who have been gone for all terms of a given academic year and then had an enrollment in any term of a subsequent academic year.
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 selfâemployed, 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
Pre-earnings: Q1 (Jan-Mar) of the calendar year of the student's academic year of entry at any college
Post-earnings: Q4 (Oct-Dec) of the calendar year of the student's academic year of exit from the last college attended
Calculate Post Earnings for each exiting student for 510S Students Who Exited and Who Were Employed in the Second Fiscal Quarter After Exit and in the Second Fiscal Quarter Before Entry or Reentry
Determine student's post earnings
WHERE Post Earnings equals student's wage matched in the EDD UI file in the second fiscal quarter immediately following the selected year or Oct-Dec of the calendar year of exit or Q4 from the last college attended
AND adjust for inflation
AND use the CA deflator in the index table to adjust for inflation
AND determine student's pre-earnings as first-time ever in the selected year or as qualifying re-entry where EITHER exiting student who returned as a general admit student after an absence of one or more academic years where student enrollment is found at any time prior to the year preceding the selected year excluding enrollment as a special-admit student
WHERE Pre-Earnings equals student's earnings two quarters prior to the academic year of entry or re-entry in Q1 (Jan-Mar) of the calendar year of the student's academic year of entry or qualified re-entry at any college
AND adjust for inflation
AND use the CA deflator in the index table to adjust for inflation
Calculate a Median Change in Earnings between student's post and pre-earnings for all students
AND count students at the selected college where enrolled as a 122SX, 122SY, 122SZ, 122SU, 122SW in the selected year
510S All Students Who Exited and Who Were Employed in the Fiscal Quarter Two Quarters After Exit and in the Fiscal Quarter Two Quarters Before Entry or Reentry