Date of Unemployment (WIOA data element)

Updated 11/18/2024

Students who have been unemployed for 27 or more consecutive weeks should be recorded as “Long-Term Unemployed” for state joint WIOA reporting. It is one of the barriers to employment.

For unemployed students, a date must be entered into a SiD field titled “Date of Unemployment.” SiD will use this date to calculate length of unemployment for WIOA reporting.

• For formerly employed students who are now unemployed, enter the date they stopped working.
• For unemployed students with no work history (recent immigrants, displaced homemakers, former full-time students etc.), enter the date they began looking for employment.

You only need to enter this information for students who have a Work Status of "Unemployed."

If you do not have exact dates, do your best to supply a date based on the information provided by the student.

How to record this information 
SiD has a field for entering a student's "Date of Unemployment."

• If a student knows their last work date at intake, enter this information on the student intake screen. 
• If you gather this information after the fact, enter it as a history item on the student's history page.
  1. Go to the Students>History page.
  2. In the Date field, enter the date the student was last employed.
  3. Choose the History Group "NRS/WIOA - Barriers to Employment", then the History Item "Date of Unemployment."
  4. Click the Save button.