Can we re-survey the leaver if we receive a response of unemployed before 15 January 2004?
If a response of ‘unemployed’ is received from the graduate before 15 January 2004 it must be returned to HESA. The issue of not re-surveying the unemployed is one on which the DfES is adamant. The argument is that there will be bias if institutions re-survey one group of leavers (i.e. the unemployed) and not the other group (i.e. the employed). There must therefore be no re-survey of leavers once a valid response has been received and the first valid response received from a leaver must be included in the return made to HESA.
