Attendance (DEX Curated) 0.1

Organisations are strongly encouraged to create individual client records for as many of their clients as possible, however in some circumstances including when it is impractical to collect information about individual participants the aggregate number of unidentified clients is recorded. 

The DEX application only generates attendance IDs for individual clients (either attending as a client or support person - Participation Type in ('CLIENT’,‘SUPPORT’)). We add unidentified client attendances to the attendance table and set AttendanceId to the negative of SessionId, and Participation Type to ‘GROUP’. Further, because unidentified client attendances are not linked to individual client records, ClientId and CaseClientId are coded as 0. 

Unidentified client numbers captured at the case level estimate the total number of unidentified clients who are anticipated to attend services. In contrast, the unidentified client attendance numbers captured at the session level records how many unidentified clients actually attended that instance of service. This prevents double counting. For example, if the unidentified client total at the case level is 100, and there are two sessions each with 100 unidentified clients; the total specified at the case level indicates that there may be up to 100 unique unidentified clients for each session, and not 200 in total.

For more information on the reporting of unidentified clients refer to sections 2.6-2.7 of The Data Exchange Protocols. 
A client attending a session without a client record. Attendance is recorded as an “unidentified client” in the Data Exchange. No demographic data is recorded against this client.

Organisations that directly receive funding from grants. These organisations may also deliver the service, or allocate the funding to other Delivery Organisations. 

Organisations delivering services directly to clients. These organisations may receive funding directly or through a Funding Recipient (Lead Organisation)