Service provider organisation—hours worked (volunteer/unpaid staff), total NNNNN
Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:
Data Element
Short name:
Hours worked per week—volunteer/unpaid staff
METeOR identifier:
270211
Registration status:
Community Services, Superseded 27/04/2007
Definition:
The total hours worked by all volunteer/unpaid staff in a seven day week.
Context:
To assist in the analysis of staffing inputs and to enable a comparison of the staffing requirements of different service types. It is important to include volunteers due to the significant contribution they make within many organisations.
This metadata item is asking for actual staff hours worked by volunteer staff, not the rostered hours or full-time equivalent staff.
Collection methods:
In some collections this metadata item may be specified as the hours on a specific week (such as the Commonwealth State/Territory Disability Agreement (CSTDA) National Minimum Data Set (NMDS), where the week leading up to the 'snapshot' collection day is the week counted). Other collections may specify a 'usual' week or an average week calculated from a number of weeks or the entire year.
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Origin:
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2002. Commonwealth State/Territory Disability Agreement National Minimum Data Set collection: Data guide-data items and definitions 2002-03. Canberra: AIHW
