To investigate the effect of BCATS on school leavers’ choices further, we compare with school leavers who did not complete a BCATS standard. We then calculate the fraction among each group that goes into training with each ITO. In the chart below, we can see that BCATS alumni are disproportionately likely to participate in BCITO training, when compared to other trade ITOs.
We have filtered by gender since men are both more likely to choose trade ITOs, and more likely to take BCATS standards, and so a comparison using both genders would be misleading. When we look only at female school leavers, the overall proportion going into BCITO training is much lower, however those who do take BCATS standards are still more likely to go on to BCITO training.
Methodology
School leaver data is sourced from Ministry of Education data in the IDI. Foreign fee-paying students and exchange students have been excluded. The first ITO that a school leaver enrols with after leaving is used for classification. Both school leaver and ITO data are for the years 2009 to 2016 inclusive.
Access to the data used in this study was provided by Stats NZ under conditions designed to give effect to the security and confidentiality provisions of the Data and Statistics Act 2022. The results presented in this study are the work of the author, not Stats NZ or individual data suppliers.
These results are not official statistics. They have been created for research purposes from the Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI) which is carefully managed by Stats NZ. For more information about the IDI please visit https://www.stats.govt.nz/integrated-data/.
The results are based in part on tax data supplied by Inland Revenue to Stats NZ under the Tax Administration Act 1994 for statistical purposes. Any discussion of data limitations or weaknesses is in the context of using the IDI for statistical purposes, and is not related to the data's ability to support Inland Revenue's core operational requirements.
