FEW specification

National Insurance Number: Field

Definition

Indicates the National Insurance number for the member of teaching staff

Reason Required

To better understand retention rates and flow into/out of sector 

Schema Definitions

XML Entity Name
NINumber
Field Length
9
Data type
RestrictedString
Minimum occurrences
0
Maximum occurrences
1
Part of
StaffData

Collection Requirements

  • Collected for those staff members that have a teaching role.

Valid Entries

A valid national insurance number in the format XXnnnnnnX, where X is alphabetic and n is numeric. The first character of the NI number must not be D, F, I, Q, U or V, the second character must not be D, F, I, O, Q, U or V, characters 3 to 8 must be numeric and character 9 must be A, B, C, D or space