The Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) is the national regulator for Australia’s vocational education and training sector. ASQA regulates courses and training providers to ensure nationally approved quality standards are met.

Among these standards are requirements for data reporting. National reporting of vocational education and training (VET) activity involves RTOs collecting data on all nationally recognised training activity and the reporting of this data to the National VET Provider Collection. The National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) is the custodian of this collection.

AVETMISS stands for the Australian Vocational Education and Training Management Information Statistical Standard. It is a national data standard that ensures consistent and accurate capture and reporting of Vocational Education and Training (VET) information about students.

NCVER's vision is to inform and influence vocational education and training in Australia through credible, reliable and responsive research and statistical services. Before NCVER staff work on the data, all names and addresses of individuals are irreversibly encrypted. No individual can be identified.

For further information on this topic, please see the NCVER website.