Careers Wales dataset.

The data supplied to SAIL represents interactions and services provided by Careers Wales to clients throughout Wales over the period 01/04/2012 to 31/03/2020. At the start of this period, the Careers Wales had just been formed from six regional Careers companies, and their CRM system was initially populated with imports from the preceding companies’ systems. Between 2012 and the present Careers Wales has worked to rationalise the varied approaches to recording, enhance the quality and suitability of the data they gather, and to simplify the data entry requirements for their staff as far as possible. Therefore users of the data will very likely notice changes over time in the nature of the data.

Careers Wales stores information on all its interactions, services provided, etc. as entities called histories. Within their CRM, different on-screen fields can be enabled or disabled for different history types – therefore a history representing a Group Session would contain information on the duration of the session, the topic and the venue; whereas a history for a Traineeship Referral Form completion would not display any of these fields.

All the numerically coded columns in Careers Wales’ supplied data can be decoded via the accompanying lookup file - HISTORIES_LOOKUP_1545_20200821.CSV.