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This study has used national vocational education and training (VET) data collected under the Australian Vocational Education and Training Management Information Statistical Standard (AVETMISS) to analyse course outcomes for students who enrolled in TAFE courses in 1997. All these students enrolled in Australian Qualifications Foundation (AQF) level courses. The results from this study show completion rates to be generally higher than those found in a previous study, ‘Student flows through Australian TAFE courses’ by John Foyster, Hon Kok Fai and Chandra Shah (indexed at TD/TNC 62.17), but the partial completion rates are substantially lower. However, the results are not strictly comparable because of the differences in the way the datasets for the two studies have been constructed. One major difference between the two studies is that in this study only enrolment in the ‘main’ course is included in the analysis, while in the previous study multiple enrolments were allowed. The dataset that has been constructed here can be used for further statistical analysis. Such models can provide information about the magnitude of the effects of personal, demographic and course variables on course outcomes.