Person—marital status, at death code N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Marital status at death |
METEOR identifier: | 770160 |
Registration status: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Recorded 01/02/2023 |
Definition: | A deceased person's final relationship status in terms of a couple relationship or, for those not in a couple relationship, the existence of a current or previous registered marriage, as represented by a code. |
Context: | National Mortality Database. |
Data element concept attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Data element concept: | Person—marital status |
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METEOR identifier: | 269533 |
Registration status: | Aged Care, Standard 30/06/2023 Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired), Standard 20/06/2018 Community Services (retired), Standard 01/03/2005 Disability, Standard 13/08/2015 Health, Standard 01/03/2005 Housing assistance, Standard 10/02/2006 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Qualified 23/11/2015 Tasmanian Health, Standard 01/09/2016 WA Health, Standard 19/03/2015 |
Definition: | A person's current relationship status in terms of a couple relationship or, for those not in a couple relationship, the existence of a current or previous registered marriage. |
Context: | Marital status is a core metadata item in a wide range of social, labour and demographic statistics. Its main purpose is analysis of the association of marital status with the need for and use of services, and for epidemiological analysis. Marital status also acts as an indicator for the level of support adult recipients of the welfare system have at home. The item is also used in comparisons of administrative data and population censuses and surveys. |
Object class: | Person |
Property: | Marital status |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Value domain attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Value domain: | Marital status at death code N |
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METEOR identifier: | 770158 |
Registration status: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Recorded 01/02/2023 |
Definition: | A code set representing marital status at death. |
Context: | National Mortality Database. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Origin: | National Mortality Database. |
Data element attributes | |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Relational attributes | |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | National mortality database DSS 1964-1967 Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Recorded 11/08/2023 Implementation start date: 01/01/1964 Implementation end date: 31/12/1967 DSS specific information: In the National Mortality Database, where age at death is less than 10 years then the marital status of the deceased is coded to CODE 1 'Never Married'. National mortality database DSS 1968-1977 Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Recorded 30/10/2023 Implementation start date: 01/01/1968 Implementation end date: 31/12/1977 DSS specific information: In the National Mortality Database, where age at death is less than 10 years then the marital status of the deceased is coded to CODE 1 'Never Married'. National mortality database DSS 1978 Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Recorded 30/10/2023 Implementation start date: 01/01/1978 Implementation end date: 31/12/1978 DSS specific information: In the National Mortality Database, where age at death is less than 10 years then the marital status of the deceased is coded to CODE 1 'Never Married'. National mortality database DSS 1979 Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Recorded 30/10/2023 Implementation start date: 01/01/1979 Implementation end date: 31/12/1979 DSS specific information: In the National Mortality Database, where age at death is less than 10 years then the marital status of the deceased is coded to CODE 1 'Never Married'. |