Qualification Type Id A unique (system-generated) 1 Unknown SAQA identifier for a type of certificate. 2 National Certificate 3 National Diploma (Professional Registration has 4 National First Degree (Min 360) been removed, as it is now 501 Post-doctoral Degree covered by Designation.) 503 Doctoral Degree 505 Masters Degree 507 Professional Qualification Data suppliers are urged not to 509 Honours Degree use ‘1 – Unknown.’ 511 National Higher Diploma 513 National Masters Diploma 515 National Higher Certificate 532 Further Diploma 533 Post Graduate Diploma 534 Senior Certificate 535 Qual at Nat Sen Cert level 554 Apprenticeship / Trade Cert 574 Post Grad B Degree (phasing out) e.g. B Ed 575 Post Diploma Diploma (phasing out) 594 Post-basic Diploma [mainly applies to Nursing] 596 Further Ed and Training Cert (FETC) 617 National First Degree (Min 480) 658 Schl below SenC: not full qual 678 Advanced Certificate 679 Advanced Diploma 680 Higher Certificate 721 Occupational Certificate Socioeconomic Status A code indicating the U Unspecified Statistics SA Code (socio)economic status of an 01 Employed individual. 02 Unemployed, (Note: the code for looking for work is U “Unspecified” 03 Not working not on the NLRD, but 99 – looking for work for Stats SA) 04 Home-maker (not working) 06 Scholar/student (not working) 07 Pensioner/retired (not working) 08 Not working – disabled person 09 Not working not – wishing to work 10 Not working Not – elsewhere classified 97 N/A: Aged <15 98 N/A: Institution
Qualification Type Id A unique (system-generated) identifier for a type of certificate. (Professional Registration has been removed, as it is now covered by Designation.) Data suppliers are urged not to use ‘1 – Unknown.’ 1 Unknown 2 National Certificate 3 National Diploma 4 National First Degree (Min 360) 501 Post-doctoral Degree 503 Doctoral Degree 505 Masters Degree 507 Professional Qualification 509 Honours Degree 511 National Higher Diploma 513 National Masters Diploma 515 National Higher Certificate 532 Further Diploma 533 Post Graduate Diploma 534 Senior Certificate 535 Qual at Nat Sen Cert level 554 Apprenticeship / Trade Cert 574 Post Grad B Degree (phasing out) e.g. B Ed 575 Post Diploma Diploma (phasing out) 594 Post-basic Diploma [mainly applies to Nursing] 596 Further Ed and Training Cert (FETC) 617 National First Degree (Min 480) 658 Schl below SenC: not full qual 678 Advanced Certificate 679 Advanced Diploma 680 Higher Certificate 721 Occupational Certificate SAQA Socioeconomic Status Code A code indicating the (socio)economic status of an individual. U Unspecified 01 Employed 02 Unemployed, looking for work 03 Not working – not looking for work 04 Home-maker (not working) 06 Scholar/student (not working) 07 Pensioner/retired (not working) 08 Not working – disabled person 09 Not working – not wishing to work 10 Not working – Not elsewhere classified 97 N/A: Aged <15 98 N/A: Institution Statistics SA (Note: the code for “Unspecified” is U on the NLRD, but 99 for Stats SA)