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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Accommodation type code AAA

639199 | Value Domain | Australian Government Department of Social Services
A code set representing types of shared accommodation.
Standard: Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired)

Australian postcode code (Postcode datafile) NNNN

611391 | Value Domain | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The Postcode datafile code set representing Australian postcodes as defined by Australia Post.
Standard: Health, Children and Families, Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired), Indigenous, Disability, Homelessness, Early Childhood, Youth Justice, Australian Teacher Workforce Data Oversight Board, Aged Care

Australian state/territory code AA[A]

639220 | Value Domain | Australian Government Department of Social Services
A code set representing Australian states and territories.
Standard: Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired)

Benefit status code A

645502 | Value Domain | Australian Government Department of Social Services
A code set representing payment status.
Standard: Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired)

Benefit type code AAA

639228 | Value Domain | Australian Government Department of Social Services
A code set representing Centrelink benefits.
Standard: Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired)

Blindness code A

643535 | Value Domain | Australian Government Department of Social Services
A code set representing blindness status.
Standard: Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired)

Citizenship country code AA

660471 | Value Domain | Australian Government Department of Social Services
A code set representing countries of citizenship.
Standard: Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired)

Country code (SACC 2016) NNNN

659444 | Value Domain | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The Standard Australian Classification of Countries (SACC 2016) code set representing a country.
Standard: Health, Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired), Children and Families, Tasmanian Health, Disability, Homelessness, Youth Justice, Australian Teacher Workforce Data Oversight Board, Aged Care

Date DDAAAYYYY

518955 | Value Domain
The day of a particular month and year.
Standard: Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired)

Date MMYYYY

375189 | Value Domain
The month of a particular year.
Standard: Health, Homelessness, Housing assistance, Community Services (retired), Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired), Tasmanian Health
Retired: National Health Performance Authority (retired)

Educational attainment code XXX

639254 | Value Domain | Australian Government Department of Social Services
A code set representing levels of educational attainment.
Standard: Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired)

Employment services/job capacity assessment code AAA

647878 | Value Domain | Australian Government Department of Social Services
A code set representing Employment Services Assessments and Job Capacity Assessments.
Standard: Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired)

Government subtenant code AAA

647528 | Value Domain | Australian Government Department of Social Services
A code set representing public housing tenant status.
Standard: Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired)

Home ownership code A

645468 | Value Domain | Australian Government Department of Social Services
A code set representing status of home ownership.
Standard: Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired)

Impairment rating code N[N]

660593 | Value Domain | Australian Government Department of Social Services
A code set representing impairment ratings.
Standard: Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired)

Indigenous status code A

632619 | Value Domain | Australian Government Department of Social Services
A code set representing Indigenous status.
Standard: Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired)

Language code (ASCL 2016) N[NNN]

659404 | Value Domain | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The Australian Standard Classification of Languages (ASCL) code set representing languages.
Standard: Health, Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired), Tasmanian Health, Homelessness, Children and Families, Aged Care

Marital status of recipient code AAA

660497 | Value Domain | Australian Government Department of Social Services
A code set representing the marital status of a recipient.
Standard: Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired)

Permanency code A

647881 | Value Domain | Australian Government Department of Social Services
A code set representing the permanency of a medical condition.
Standard: Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired)

Primary medical condition code AAA

660576 | Value Domain | Australian Government Department of Social Services
A code set representing primary medical conditions.
Standard: Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired)

Rent frequency code XXX

647890 | Value Domain | Australian Government Department of Social Services
A code set representing the frequency of rent payments.
Standard: Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired)

Rent payer code A

647895 | Value Domain | Australian Government Department of Social Services
A code set representing the payer of rent.
Standard: Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired)

Rent type code AAA

647902 | Value Domain | Australian Government Department of Social Services
A code set representing types of rent.
Standard: Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired)

Scrambled customer reference number identifier N(9)

640605 | Value Domain
A random sequence of characters used for the purpose of identifying a Centrelink recipient in the PIA research data set.
Standard: Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired)

Sex/gender code A

671702 | Value Domain | Australian Government Department of Social Services
A code set representing the distinction between male, female and non-binary gender.
Standard: Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired)

Suspension reason code AAA

648041 | Value Domain | Australian Government Department of Social Services
A code set representing reasons payments are suspended.
Standard: Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired)

Total Australian currency N[NNNNN].NN

270684 | Value Domain
Total number of Australian dollars and cents.
Standard: Community Services (retired), Housing assistance, Early Childhood, Disability, Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired)
Retired: Commonwealth Department of Health

Total impairment rating NN[N]

648416 | Value Domain | Australian Government Department of Social Services
The sum of all impairment ratings.
Standard: Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired)

Total number N

601797 | Value Domain | Department of Health
The total, sum, count or aggregate of a collection of units.
Retired: Commonwealth Department of Health
Standard: Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired)

Total number N[N]

347205 | Value Domain
The total number.
Standard: Health, Housing assistance, Tasmanian Health, Community Services (retired), Indigenous, Disability, Children and Families, Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired)
Qualified: Commonwealth Department of Health

Total work capacity hours XX[XXX]

646992 | Value Domain | Australian Government Department of Social Services
Total number of work capacity hours per week.
Standard: Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired)

Yes/missing code A

660567 | Value Domain | Australian Government Department of Social Services
A code set representing 'yes' and 'missing'.
Standard: Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired)

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