Search

METEOR’s search works in a similar way to other search engines. You can use keywords or terms to pull up related content. The below tips are specific to METEOR and will help you to find what you need.

Try searching using either a keyword, specific term or METEOR ID number.

METEOR ID search

If you’re a returning user and know an item’s METEOR ID, you can enter it in the search box. Clicking the search icon will take you straight to the item’s page.

Autocomplete

METEOR will automatically display suggestions for search terms as you’re typing. This predictive text will show you METEOR entries that exist for the topic you’re searching on. You don’t have to use any of these suggestions, but they may make your searching process faster and easier.

Pressing ‘tab’ will select the top suggestion. Otherwise, selecting from the list of suggestions will put the suggested search term into the search box. You can then click the search icon to find related content. Clicking anywhere on the search results will take you to the item’s page.

Spelling correction

METEOR will show search results with spelling correction. Misspelled terms can still be selected for search where relevant.

Dropdown options

The drop-down menus directly below the search text box allow you to limit the search results to any of the 18 content types in METEOR (see Learn about metadata to view the list), by item creation dates, and item revision dates.

Content types

Content types allow you to limit your search to various metadata building blocks and other topic or help content found in METEOR. See Learn about metadata to view a list of metadata item types that you can search in METEOR. Searching on Topic pages will give results from METEOR’s ‘non-metadata’ pages which explain metadata, how it is managed, how to use METEOR, and how to develop metadata.

Searching on Help will give results from all the pop-up information boxes that are linked to each metadata item. The Help search looks through all text from the METEOR Business Rules, which is accessed through the small ‘i’ icon used throughout the site.

Created date and Revision date

The Created and Revision date dropdown options limit your search to when an item was created or last revised. METEOR will search any time by default, or you can select or specify a custom period.

Custom search syntax

METEOR uses Lucene search syntax. This functionality can be useful to fine-tune your search results even more. Some of the commands include:

  1. Restrict search to the titles of items by using Name: Searchterm. Note that it has to be written exactly as Name, with the capital N. Using name will not work. It doesn’t matter if there’s a space around the colon or not.
  2. Force a second term to be included by using AND.
  3. Widen your search to include another option using the term OR.

For example, if you’re looking for something with the word ‘baby’ in the title you would use Name: baby. METEOR will also give you results for the plural of the search term, so if you search on ‘baby’ you will also get results for ‘babies’. If looking for something with two terms (‘baby’ and ‘admission’) you would use Name: baby AND admission.

Sort by

You can also display your search results with a range of options in the Sort by drop-down menu on the right. You can sort on Relevance, Most/Least Recently Created, Most/Least Recently Updated, and Alphabetically (A–Z and Z–A).

Clear

The Clear button resets the Search page.

Filtering search results

You can fine-tune your search results using the filters that appear in the left-hand menu after searching any term. These filters are dynamic and will only display options specific to your search term, for example, only registration authorities relating to your search term will be displayed. You can use multiple filters at once.

Some of the filters change depending on your role within METEOR. If you are using METEOR without an account, you can search on metadata item type, public registration statuses, METEOR ID, and registration authority. You are also able to compare two items.

If you are using METEOR without an account, you will not be able to save bookmarks for items you’re interested in. There are also some non-public registration statuses that you won’t be able to see.

If you wish to save bookmarks, you can sign up for a free METEOR account easily, just follow the Sign up now prompts after clicking on the Sign In button. If you have an account, you will also be able to subscribe to notifications about changes to specific items in METEOR.

If you are logged in to METEOR as a metadata developer, or any other official role, there are some additional search options. You will be able to restrict your search to the full range of registration status options, including non-public statuses. You will also be able to save bookmarks and subscribe to notifications about changes to items.

Each search result has a small ‘hamburger’ icon on the right . This gives you download links for the metadata item as a PDF or a Word document.


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Address—Australian postcode, Australian postcode code (Postcode datafile) {NNNN}

429894 | Data Element | Australian Youth Justice Administrators (AYJA)
The Australian numeric descriptor for a postal delivery area for an address.
Standard: Community Services (retired), Housing assistance, Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, WA Health, Disability, Children and Families
Superseded: Early Childhood, Health, Homelessness, Indigenous, Youth Justice
Retired: National Health Performance Authority (retired), Commonwealth Department of Health

Birth event—birth plurality, code N

482409 | Data Element | National Perinatal Data Development Committee
The number of babies resulting from a single pregnancy, as represented by a code.
Superseded: Health, Indigenous

Birth event—birth plurality, code N

668881 | Data Element | National Perinatal Data Development Committee
The number of babies resulting from a single pregnancy, as represented by a code.
Superseded: Health, Indigenous

Birth—birth status, code N

269949 | Data Element | National Perinatal Data Development Committee
The status of the baby at birth, as represented by a code.
Superseded: Health, Indigenous, Tasmanian Health

Birth—birth weight, code N

459938 | Data Element | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW)
The first weight of the live-born or stillborn baby obtained after birth, or the weight of the neonate or infant on the date admitted if this is different from the date of birth, as represented by a code.
Superseded: Health, Indigenous

Child—fully immunised recorded indicator, yes/no code N

457664 | Data Element | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW)
An indicator of whether a child has been recorded as fully immunised, as represented by a code.
Superseded: Health, Indigenous

Female—cervical screening indicator, yes/no/not stated/inadequately described code N

358921 | Data Element | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
An indicator of whether a female person has had a cervical screening, as represented by a code.
Superseded: Health, Indigenous

Female—cervical screening indicator, yes/no/not stated/inadequately described code N

686938 | Data Element | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
An indicator of whether a female person has had a cervical screening, as represented by a code.
Superseded: Health, Indigenous

Person (address)—electronic communication address, text [X(250)]

287469 | Data Element | Standards Australia
A unique combination of characters used as input to electronic communication equipment for the purpose of contacting a person, as represented by text.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired), Indigenous

Person—absolute cardiovascular disease risk assessment recorded indicator, yes/no code N

503024 | Data Element | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
An indicator of whether a person has had an absolute cardiovascular disease risk (CVD) assessment recorded, as represented by a code.
Superseded: Health, Indigenous

Person—absolute cardiovascular disease risk assessment result categories, code N

585236 | Data Element | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Result categories of a person's absolute cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessment, as represented by a code.
Superseded: Health, Indigenous

Person—absolute cardiovascular disease risk assessment result recorded indicator, yes/no code N

585364 | Data Element | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
An indicator of whether a person has had an absolute cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessment recorded, as represented by a code.
Superseded: Health, Indigenous

Person—albumin/creatinine ratio (ACR) result, code N

594120 | Data Element | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
A person's albumin/creatinine ratio (ACR) test result, as represented by a code.
Superseded: Health, Indigenous

Person—birth weight recorded indicator, yes/no code N

441701 | Data Element | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW)
An indicator of whether a person's birth weight has been recorded, as represented by a code.
Superseded: Health, Indigenous

Person—Indigenous status, code N

291036 | Data Element | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Whether a person identifies as being of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander origin, as represented by a code. This is in accord with the first two of three components of the Commonwealth definition.
Superseded: Health, Housing assistance, Early Childhood, Homelessness, Tasmanian Health, Indigenous, Disability, Children and Families, Youth Justice
Standard: Community Services (retired), WA Health, Independent Hospital Pricing Authority

Person—regular client indicator, yes/no code N

436639 | Data Element | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW)
An indicator of whether a person is a regular client of an organisation or agency, as represented by a code.
Superseded: Health, Indigenous
Standard: Community Services (retired)

Person—sex, code N

287316 | Data Element | Australian Youth Justice Administrators (AYJA)
The biological distinction between male and female, as represented by a code.
Superseded: Health, Early Childhood, Homelessness, Indigenous, Youth Justice
Standard: Community Services (retired), Housing assistance, Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Disability, Children and Families
Retired: National Health Performance Authority (retired)

Person—sex, code X

635126 | Data Element | Australian Youth Justice Administrators (AYJA)
The distinction between male, female, and others who do not have biological characteristics typically associated with either the male or female sex, as represented by a code.
Superseded: Health, Indigenous, Youth Justice
Standard: Early Childhood, Homelessness

Pregnancy—birth plurality, code N

695308 | Data Element | National Perinatal Data Development Committee
The number of births resulting from a single pregnancy, as represented by a code.
Superseded: Health, Indigenous

Pregnancy—estimated duration (at the first visit for antenatal care), completed weeks N[N]

673258 | Data Element | National Perinatal Data Development Committee
The estimated duration of a pregnancy in total completed weeks, on the day of the first visit for antenatal care.
Superseded: Health, Indigenous

Pregnancy—estimated duration (at the first visit for antenatal care), completed weeks N[N]

379597 | Data Element | National Perinatal Data Development Committee
The total number of completed weeks of a pregnancy's estimated duration on the day of the first visit for antenatal care.
Superseded: Health, Indigenous, Tasmanian Health

Pregnancy—estimated duration of pregnancy at the first antenatal care visit, total completed weeks N[N]

695410 | Data Element | National Perinatal Data Development Committee
The estimated duration of a pregnancy in total completed weeks on the day of the first antenatal care visit.
Superseded: Health, Indigenous, Tasmanian Health

Product of birth—birth status, code N

695437 | Data Element | National Perinatal Data Development Committee
The status of a baby at birth, as represented by a code.
Superseded: Health, Indigenous, Tasmanian Health

Service provider organisation (address)—address line, text X[X(179)]

290315 | Data Element | Standards Australia
A composite of one or more standard address components, as represented by text.
Superseded: Health, Early Childhood, Housing assistance, Indigenous
Standard: Community Services (retired)

Service provider organisation (address)—Australian postcode, code (Postcode datafile) {NNNN}

290064 | Data Element | Standards Australia
The numeric descriptor for a postal delivery area, aligned with locality, suburb or place for the address of an organisation, as represented by a code.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired), Early Childhood, Housing assistance, Indigenous

Service provider organisation (address)—building/complex sub-unit identifier, [X(7)]

290291 | Data Element | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The unique number or identifier of a building/complex, marina, etc. where an organisation is located.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired), Indigenous

Service provider organisation (address)—building/property name, text X[X(29)]

290295 | Data Element
The name of a building or property where an organisation is located, as represented by text.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired), Indigenous

Service provider organisation (address)—electronic communication address, text [X(250)]

287480 | Data Element | Standards Australia
A unique combination of characters used as input to electronic communication equipment for the purpose of contacting an organisation, as represented by text.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired), Indigenous

Service provider organisation (address)—electronic communication medium, code N

287521 | Data Element | Standards Australia
A type of communication mechanism used by an organisation, as represented by a code.
Superseded: Health, Indigenous
Standard: Community Services (retired)

Service provider organisation (address)—street name, text A[A(29)]

290218 | Data Element
The concatenation of an organisation's street type and street suffix resulting in a name that identifies a public thoroughfare and differentiates it from others in the same suburb/town/locality, as represented by text.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired), Indigenous

Service provider organisation (address)—suburb/town/locality name, text A[A(49)]

290059 | Data Element
The full name of the general locality containing the specific address of an organisation, as represented by text.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired), Early Childhood, Housing assistance, Indigenous

Service provider organisation (name)—name type, code N

288937 | Data Element
A classification that enables differentiation between recorded names for an establishment, agency or organisation, as represented by a code.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired), Indigenous

Service provider organisation (name)—organisation name, text X[X(199)]

288917 | Data Element | Standards Australia
The appellation by which an establishment, agency or organisation is known or called, as represented by text.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired), Early Childhood, Indigenous

Service provider organisation—Australian state/territory identifier, code N

289083 | Data Element | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
An identifier of the Australian state or territory where an organisation or agency can be located, as represented by a code.
Superseded: Health, Indigenous
Standard: Community Services (retired), Early Childhood, Housing assistance

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