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Registered health professional—length of employment in profession in Australia, total years NN

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Data Element
Short name:Length of employment in health profession
METeOR identifier:375478
Registration status:Health, Standard 10/12/2009
Definition:The total number of years a health professional has been employed in the registered profession in Australia.
Context:Registered health labour force
Data Element Concept:Registered health professional—length of employment in profession in Australia

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Representation class:Total
Data type:String
Format:NN
Maximum character length:2
Supplementary values:
ValueMeaning
99Not stated/inadequately described
Unit of measure:Year

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:

Total years expressed as 00, 01 etc with values rounded up to the next value of years if the remaining time is greater than six full months.

The health professional may be employed in more than one profession. This data element applies only to the profession of registration, regardless of length of time spent working in related professions.

Collection methods:

In total, how many years have you worked in the registered profession in Australia?

Include full-time and part-time work.

Exclude time spent not working and unpaid leave.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Relational attributes

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