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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Household family—family type

269567 | Data Element Concept
The composition of the family within the household.
Superseded: Community Services (retired)

Household—household type

269569 | Data Element Concept
A categorisation of a household based on the presence or absence of family members.
Superseded: Community Services (retired)

Person (address)—address type

269492 | Data Element Concept
The type of geographical/physical location where a person can be located.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired)

Person (address)—Australian postcode

269894 | Data Element Concept
The numeric descriptor for a postal delivery area, aligned with locality, suburb or place for the address of a person.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired), Early Childhood
Standard: Housing assistance, Homelessness

Person (address)—building/complex sub-unit identifier

269489 | Data Element Concept
The number or identifier of a building/complex, marina, etc. where a person resides.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired)

Person (address)—building/property name

269499 | Data Element Concept
The name of a building or property where a person resides.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired)

Person (address)—electronic communication usage code

287560 | Data Element Concept
The manner of use that a person applies to an electronic communication address.
Standard: Health
Superseded: Community Services (retired)

Person (address)—floor/level identifier

269500 | Data Element Concept
The floor/level identifier where a person can be located.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired)

Person (address)—floor/level type

269495 | Data Element Concept
The type of floor/level where a person can be located.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired)

Person (address)—house/property identifier

269501 | Data Element Concept
The identifier of a house or property where a person resides.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired)

Person (address)—lot/section identifier

269502 | Data Element Concept
The lot/section identifier of the location where a person resides.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired)

Person (address)—postal delivery point identifier

269869 | Data Element Concept
A unique number assigned to a person's postal address as recorded on the Australia Post Postal Address File (PAF).
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired)

Person (address)—street name

269490 | Data Element Concept
The concatenation of a person'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.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired)

Person (address)—street suffix

269493 | Data Element Concept
The abbreviated suffix that identifies the type of street where a person resides.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired)

Person (address)—street type

269491 | Data Element Concept
The type of public thoroughfare where a person resides.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired)

Person (address)—suburb/town/locality name

269880 | Data Element Concept
The full name of the locality contained within the specific address of a person.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired), Early Childhood
Standard: Housing assistance, Homelessness

Person (assessed)—assistance eligibility status

269802 | Data Element Concept
The eligibility of a person (as determined by an assessment) to receive an occasion of assistance from an agency.
Superseded: Community Services (retired)

Person (name)—name context flag

269713 | Data Element Concept | Standards Australia, National Health Data Committee, National Community Services Data Committee
An indicator of specific conditions that may be applied to a particular person's name.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired)

Person (name)—name type

269712 | Data Element Concept
A classification that enables differentiation between recorded names for a person.
Standard: Health
Superseded: Community Services (retired)

Person (requiring care)—carer availability status

269629 | Data Element Concept
Whether someone, such as a family member, friend or neighbour, has been identified as providing regular and sustained informal care and assistance to the person requiring care.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired)

Person—age (community services)

269800 | Data Element Concept
The age of the person.
Superseded: Community Services (retired)

Person—income source (cash)

269810 | Data Element Concept
Sources of all cash income which an individual (or income group or household) might receive e.g. from employment, property or cash transfers.
Superseded: Community Services (retired)

Person—income source (principal)

269808 | Data Element Concept
The source by which a person derives most (equal to or greater than 50%) of his/her income. If the person has multiple sources of income and none equal to or greater than 50%, the one, which contributes the largest percentage, should be counted.
Superseded: Community Services (retired)

Person—level of highest educational attainment

269564 | Data Element Concept
The highest qualification reported by a person in any field of study, or the highest year of school completed, whichever is the higher.
Superseded: Community Services (retired)

Person—occupation (main)

269531 | Data Element Concept
The job in which the person is principally engaged. A job in any given establishment is a set of tasks designed to be performed by one individual in return for a wage or salary. For persons with more than one job, the main job is the one in which the person works the most hours.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired), Housing assistance

Person—person identifier (within establishment/agency)

269523 | Data Element Concept | National Health Data Committee, National Community Services Data Committee
Person identifier unique within an establishment or agency.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired)

Person—telephone number

269718 | Data Element Concept
Person contact telephone number.
Standard: Health
Superseded: Community Services (retired)

Referral—referral source (community services)

269438 | Data Element Concept | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The person or agency responsible for the referral of a client to a community service agency.
Superseded: Community Services (retired)

Service event—type of goods and equipment received

269831 | Data Element Concept | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The types of goods or equipment received by the client (by purchase, loan, or gift) during a service event.
Superseded: Community Services (retired)

Service provider organisation (address)—address type

286768 | Data Element Concept
The type of geographical/physical location where an organisation can be located.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired)

Service provider organisation (address)—Australian postcode

290062 | Data Element Concept
The numeric descriptor for a postal delivery area, aligned with locality, suburb or place for the address of an organisation.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired), Early Childhood, Indigenous

Service provider organisation (address)—building/complex sub-unit identifier

290282 | Data Element Concept
The 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

290293 | Data Element Concept
The name of a building or property where an organisation is located.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired), Indigenous

Service provider organisation (address)—electronic communication address

287474 | Data Element Concept
A unique combination of characters used as input to electronic communication equipment for the purpose of contacting an organisation.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired), Indigenous

Service provider organisation (address)—floor/level identifier

290255 | Data Element Concept
The floor/level identifier where an organisation can be located.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired)

Service provider organisation (address)—floor/level type

290243 | Data Element Concept
The type of floor/level where an organisation can be located.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired)

Service provider organisation (address)—house/property identifier

290237 | Data Element Concept | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The identifier of a house or property where an organisation is located.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired)

Service provider organisation (address)—lot/section identifier

290226 | Data Element Concept
The lot/section identifier of the location of an organisation.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired)

Service provider organisation (address)—postal delivery point identifier

290137 | Data Element Concept
A unique number assigned to a service provider organisation's postal address as recorded on the Australia Post Postal Address File (PAF).
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired)

Service provider organisation (address)—street name

290216 | Data Element Concept
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.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired), Indigenous

Service provider organisation (address)—street suffix

290162 | Data Element Concept
The abbreviated suffix that identifies the type of street where an organisation is located.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired)

Service provider organisation (address)—street type

290189 | Data Element Concept
The type of public thoroughfare where an organisation is located.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired)

Service provider organisation (address)—suburb/town/locality name

290054 | Data Element Concept
The full name of the general locality containing the specific address of an organisation.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired), Early Childhood, Indigenous

Service provider organisation (name)—name type

288927 | Data Element Concept
A classification that enables differentiation between recorded names for an establishment, agency or organisation.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired)

Service provider organisation (name)—organisation name

288903 | Data Element Concept | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The appellation by which an establishment, agency or organisation is known or called.
Superseded: Health, Community Services (retired), Early Childhood, Indigenous
Standard: Housing assistance

Service provider organisation—hours worked

269633 | Data Element Concept | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The total number of hours actually worked by all staff within a specified time period.
Superseded: Community Services (retired)

Service provider organisation—service activity type

269896 | Data Element Concept | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The type(s) of services that are usually available to or provided to persons.
Superseded: Community Services (retired)

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