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Address—address line

594211 | Data Element Concept | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
A composite of one or more standard address components that describes a low level of geographical/physical description of a location that, used in conjunction with the other high-level address components i.e. Suburb/town/locality, Australian state/territory, Australian postcode, and Country, forms a complete geographical/physical address of an organisation.
Standard: Health, Indigenous, Early Childhood, Housing assistance, Aged Care

Address—Australian postcode

429892 | Data Element Concept | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The Australian numeric descriptor for a postal delivery area for an address.
Standard: Community Services (retired), Early Childhood, Health, Tasmanian Health, Housing assistance, Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, WA Health, Homelessness, Indigenous, Disability, Children and Families, Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired), Youth Justice, Australian Teacher Workforce Data Oversight Board, Aged Care
Retired: National Health Performance Authority (retired), Commonwealth Department of Health

Address—Australian state/territory identifier

430132 | Data Element Concept | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
An identifier of the state or territory of an address.
Standard: Community Services (retired), Housing assistance, WA Health, Disability, Aged Care
Superseded: Health, Early Childhood

Address—Australian state/territory identifier

722749 | Data Element Concept | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
An identifier of the state or territory of an address.
Standard: Health, Indigenous, Australian Teacher Workforce Data Oversight Board, Early Childhood

Address—statistical area

457285 | Data Element Concept | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
A designated region with a pre-determined population used for describing location and contact details. Based on the Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) structure of six hierarchical statistical area levels comprised in ascending order.
Superseded: Health, Early Childhood
Standard: Community Services (retired), Disability, Children and Families
Retired: National Health Performance Authority (retired)

Address—statistical area

660651 | Data Element Concept | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
A designated region with a pre-determined population used for describing location.
Standard: Health, Children and Families, Early Childhood, Aged Care
Recorded: Australian Teacher Workforce Data Oversight Board

Address—suburb/town/locality name

429887 | Data Element Concept | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The name of the locality/suburb of the address.
Standard: Community Services (retired), Early Childhood, Health, Tasmanian Health, Housing assistance, Homelessness, WA Health, Indigenous, Disability, Children and Families, Youth Justice, Australian Teacher Workforce Data Oversight Board, Aged Care

Child—early childhood education program attendance indicator

762799 | Data Element Concept | Department of Education
An indicator of whether a child attended an early childhood education program.
Standard: Early Childhood

Child—early childhood education program enrolment indicator

762875 | Data Element Concept | Department of Health and Aged Care
An indicator of whether the child was enrolled in an early childhood education program.
Standard: Early Childhood

Child—early childhood education program fees charged per week

762949 | Data Element Concept | Department of Education
The actual tuition fees charged for the child to attend an early childhood education program at this service per week.
Standard: Early Childhood

Child—early childhood education program hours attended

763012 | Data Element Concept | Department of Education
The number of hours a child has attended an early childhood education program in a given week.
Standard: Early Childhood

Child—early childhood education program hours enrolled

763018 | Data Element Concept | Department of Education
The number of hours a child has enrolled in an early childhood education program, in a given week.
Standard: Early Childhood

Child—early childhood education program received from a qualified teacher indicator

763025 | Data Element Concept | Department of Education
An indicator of face-to-face delivery of an early childhood education program to a child by a qualified early childhood teacher.
Standard: Early Childhood

Child—early childhood education program repeater indicator

763031 | Data Element Concept | Department of Education
An indicator of whether the child was enrolled in their second or third year of an early childhood education program.
Standard: Early Childhood

Child—eligibility for subsidy indicator

401338 | Data Element Concept | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Whether a child is entitled to receive subsidies.
Standard: Community Services (retired), Early Childhood

Child—fees charged in the census week

401473 | Data Element Concept
The actual tuition fees charged per week for the child to attend preschool at this service
Standard: Community Services (retired)
Superseded: Early Childhood

Child—Hours of an early childhood education program received from qualified teacher(s)

763037 | Data Element Concept | Department of Education
The number of hours a child has received in an early childhood education program delivered by qualified early childhood teacher(s) in the reference period.
Standard: Early Childhood

Child—maximum early childhood education program hours available

763044 | Data Element Concept | Department of Education
The maximum number of hours of early childhood education program available to the child at this service.
Standard: Early Childhood

Child—maximum preschool program hours available per week

397149 | Data Element Concept | Early Childhood Data Sub Group (ECDSG)
The maximum number of hours of preschool program available to the child at this service, per week.
Standard: Community Services (retired)
Superseded: Early Childhood

Child—preschool program enrolment indicator

436124 | Data Element Concept | Early Childhood Data Sub Group (ECDSG)
An indicator of whether the child was enrolled in a preschool program.
Superseded: Early Childhood
Standard: Community Services (retired)

Child—preschool program hours attended

388615 | Data Element Concept
The number of hours a child has attended a preschool program in a given week.
Retired: Community Services (retired)
Superseded: Early Childhood

Child—preschool program hours enrolled

388621 | Data Element Concept | Early Childhood Data Sub Group (ECDSG)
The number of hours a child has enrolled in a preschool program, in a given week.
Standard: Community Services (retired)
Superseded: Early Childhood

Child—preschool service enrolment indicator

387986 | Data Element Concept | Early Childhood Data Sub Group (ECDSG)
Whether the child was enrolled in a preschool program.
Standard: Community Services (retired)
Superseded: Early Childhood

Child—preschool service received indicator

357013 | Data Element Concept
Whether a child received a preschool service.
Standard: Community Services (retired)
Superseded: Early Childhood

Date—accuracy indicator

294418 | Data Element Concept
An indicator of the accuracy of the components of a reported date.
Standard: Health, Community Services (retired), Housing assistance, Early Childhood, Homelessness, Disability

Organisation—organisation name

453802 | Data Element Concept | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The full title of an organisation's name by which it trades or is recognised.
Standard: Community Services (retired), Early Childhood, Health, Indigenous, Disability, Youth Justice
Qualified: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

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)—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 (employed)—education field of highest relevant qualification

441589 | Data Element Concept | Early Childhood Data Sub Group (ECDSG)
The field of education in which a person has attained their highest qualification relevant to early childhood education and care.
Standard: Early Childhood

Person (employed)—education field of highest relevant qualification

391015 | Data Element Concept
The field of education in which a person has attained their highest qualification relevant to their employment or occupation.
Standard: Community Services (retired), Early Childhood, Indigenous

Person (employed)—hours worked in early childhood education program delivery (per week)

763154 | Data Element Concept | Department of Education
The number of hours worked in early childhood education program delivery by a person per week.
Standard: Early Childhood

Person (employed)—level of highest qualification in employment field

390958 | Data Element Concept | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The highest level of qualification a person has attained in a field related to their employment or occupation.
Standard: Community Services (retired), Early Childhood, Indigenous

Person (employed)—paid employment indicator

314809 | Data Element Concept
Whether an employed person is paid or unpaid.
Standard: Community Services (retired), Early Childhood

Person (employed)—Preschool program delivered by teacher indicator

401320 | Data Element Concept
An indicator of face to face delivery of a structured, play-based, educational program by a person with a relevant university qualification.
Standard: Community Services (retired)
Superseded: Early Childhood

Person—age

290402 | Data Element Concept
The age of the person.
Standard: Health, Community Services (retired), Housing assistance, Early Childhood, Tasmanian Health, WA Health, Indigenous, Children and Families
Retired: National Health Performance Authority (retired)

Person—area of usual residence

269542 | Data Element Concept | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Geographical location of usual residence of the person.
Standard: Health, Community Services (retired), Early Childhood, Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, WA Health, Disability, Tasmanian Health, Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired)
Recorded: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Person—Australian state/territory identifier

269512 | Data Element Concept | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The Australian state or territory where a person can be located.
Superseded: Health, Children and Families
Standard: Community Services (retired), Housing assistance, Early Childhood, Homelessness
Qualified: Youth Justice

Person—date of birth

269565 | Data Element Concept | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The date of birth of the person.
Standard: Health, Community Services (retired), Housing assistance, Early Childhood, Homelessness, Tasmanian Health, Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Indigenous, WA Health, Disability, Children and Families, Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired), Youth Justice, Australian Teacher Workforce Data Oversight Board, Aged Care
Retired: National Health Performance Authority (retired), Commonwealth Department of Health
Recorded: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Person—Estimated resident population of Australia

397725 | Data Element Concept
The official measure of the population of Australia.
Standard: Community Services (retired), Early Childhood, Health
Retired: National Health Performance Authority (retired)

Person—Indigenous status

269618 | Data Element Concept | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Indigenous Status is a measure of whether a person identifies as being of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander origin. 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
Standard: Community Services (retired), Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, WA Health, Children and Families
Qualified: Youth Justice

Person—Indigenous status

615458 | Data Element Concept | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Whether a person identifies as being of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander origin.
Standard: Health, Disability, Tasmanian Health, Children and Families, Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired), Housing assistance, Indigenous, Homelessness, Early Childhood, Youth Justice, Australian Teacher Workforce Data Oversight Board, Aged Care
Qualified: Independent Hospital Pricing Authority

Person—letters of family name

349493 | Data Element Concept
A specific combination of letters selected from the person's family name (surname).
Standard: Community Services (retired), Housing assistance, Early Childhood, Homelessness, Health, Disability, Children and Families, Youth Justice

Person—letters of given name

349491 | Data Element Concept
A specific combination of letters selected from the person's first name (given name).
Standard: Community Services (retired), Housing assistance, Early Childhood, Homelessness, Health, Disability, Children and Families, Youth Justice

Person—person identifier

287172 | Data Element Concept
Person identifier unique within an establishment or agency.
Standard: Health, Community Services (retired), Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Early Childhood, Indigenous, Tasmanian Health, WA Health, Disability, Children and Families, Youth Justice
Retired: National Health Performance Authority (retired)

Person—preschool program delivery indicator

441668 | Data Element Concept | Early Childhood Data Sub Group (ECDSG)
An indicator of whether a structured, play-based, educational program was delivered face to face.
Standard: Early Childhood

Person—role of early childhood education and care worker

400954 | Data Element Concept
The usual role of the person in the course of their employment in early childhood education and care.
Standard: Community Services (retired)
Superseded: Early Childhood

Person—role of early childhood education and care worker

441581 | Data Element Concept | Early Childhood Data Sub Group (ECDSG)
The main role of an early childhood education and care worker.
Standard: Early Childhood

Person—sex

269716 | Data Element Concept | Australian Youth Justice Administrators (AYJA)
Sex is the biological distinction between male and female. Where there is an inconsistency between anatomical and chromosomal characteristics, sex is based on anatomical characteristics.
Superseded: Health, Early Childhood, Homelessness, Indigenous, Tasmanian Health, Youth Justice
Standard: Community Services (retired), Housing assistance, Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, WA Health, Disability, Children and Families
Retired: National Health Performance Authority (retired), Commonwealth Department of Health

Person—sex

635233 | Data Element Concept | Australian Youth Justice Administrators (AYJA)
Sex refers to a person's biological characteristics. A person's sex is usually described as being either male or female. A person may have both male and female characteristics, or neither male nor female characteristics, or other sexual characteristics.
Superseded: Health, Indigenous, Youth Justice
Standard: Tasmanian Health, Homelessness, Early Childhood

Person—type of work activity

397308 | Data Element Concept
The type of service work performed by a person in the course of their employment.
Standard: Community Services (retired)
Superseded: Early Childhood

Person—type of work activity

441553 | Data Element Concept
The type of work activity performed by a person.
Standard: Early Childhood

Record—linkage key

349891 | Data Element Concept
A key that enables the bringing together of two or more records that are believed to belong to the same individual.
Standard: Community Services (retired), Housing assistance, Early Childhood, Homelessness, Health, Disability

Service provider organisation (address)—address line

290303 | Data Element Concept
A composite of one or more standard address components that describes a low level of geographical/physical description of a location that, used in conjunction with the other high-level address components i.e. Suburb/town/locality, Postcode—Australian, Australian state/territory, and Country, forms a complete geographical/physical address of an organisation.
Standard: Health, Community Services (retired), Early Childhood, Indigenous

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 - number of preschool enrolments

390922 | Data Element Concept | Early Childhood Data Sub Group (ECDSG)
The number of enrolments recorded by a service provider organisation.
Standard: Community Services (retired), Early Childhood

Service provider organisation—Australian state/territory identifier

288139 | Data Element Concept
An identifier of the Australian state or territory where an organisation or agency can be located.
Superseded: Health, Indigenous
Standard: Community Services (retired), Early Childhood, Housing assistance

Service provider organisation—early childhood education program attendance hours

608302 | Data Element Concept | Early Childhood Data Sub Group (ECDSG)
The number of hours of an early childhood education program that children attended at the service.
Standard: Early Childhood

Service provider organisation—early childhood education program delivered by a qualified teacher indicator

763148 | Data Element Concept | Department of Education
An indicator of whether an early childhood education program was delivered by a qualified early childhood teacher.
Standard: Early Childhood

Service provider organisation—early childhood education program weekly tuition fee schedule amount

608317 | Data Element Concept
The standard weekly tuition fee schedule amount for an early childhood education program reported by the service.
Standard: Early Childhood

Service provider organisation—eligibility for subsidy indicator

395876 | Data Element Concept | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Whether a service provider organisation is entitled to receive subsidies.
Standard: Community Services (retired), Early Childhood

Service provider organisation—fee schedule amount

326574 | Data Element Concept
The standard fee schedule amount reported by an agency.
Standard: Community Services (retired)
Superseded: Early Childhood

Service provider organisation—fee schedule for activity type

354669 | Data Element Concept
The standard fee schedule type reported by a service provider organisation or agency for a given activity type.
Standard: Community Services (retired), Early Childhood

Service provider organisation—geographic location

269759 | Data Element Concept
The geographical location of an agency.
Standard: Community Services (retired), Early Childhood, Disability

Service provider organisation—government funding type

473091 | Data Element Concept | Early Childhood Data Sub Group (ECDSG)
The type of government funding received by a service provider organisation.
Standard: Early Childhood

Service provider organisation—management type

315177 | Data Element Concept
The type of legal or social entity responsible for managing an agency.
Standard: Community Services (retired), Early Childhood

Service provider organisation—management type

441484 | Data Element Concept
The type of legal or social entity responsible for managing the delivery of an early childhood education and care service.
Standard: Early Childhood

Service provider organisation—maximum early childhood education program hours available per week

602345 | Data Element Concept
The maximum number of hours available to children to attend the early childhood education program at this service.
Standard: Early Childhood

Service provider organisation—maximum preschool program hours available per week

401535 | Data Element Concept
The maximum number of hours available to children to attend the preschool program at this service.
Standard: Community Services (retired)
Superseded: Early Childhood

Service provider organisation—number of children attending an early childhood education program

604303 | Data Element Concept | Early Childhood Data Sub Group (ECDSG)
The number of children attending an early childhood education program at the service.
Standard: Early Childhood

Service provider organisation—number of children attending preschool

390937 | Data Element Concept | Early Childhood Data Sub Group (ECDSG)
The number of children who attended preschool at least once in the census week at the service.
Standard: Community Services (retired)
Superseded: Early Childhood

Service provider organisation—number of early childhood education program enrolments

608341 | Data Element Concept | Early Childhood Data Sub Group (ECDSG)
The number of enrolments in an early childhood education program recorded at the service.
Standard: Early Childhood

Service provider organisation—number of early childhood education program hours enrolled

604296 | Data Element Concept | Early Childhood Data Sub Group (ECDSG)
The number of hours that children are enrolled in an early childhood education program at the service, in a given week.
Standard: Early Childhood

Service provider organisation—number of early childhood education program service operation weeks

763161 | Data Element Concept | Department of Education
The number of weeks that the service provider organisation is open to provide early childhood education program services.
Standard: Early Childhood

Service provider organisation—number of Indigenous children attending a preschool program

441247 | Data Element Concept
The number of Indigenous children attending a preschool preschool program at the service.
Superseded: Early Childhood
Standard: Indigenous

Service provider organisation—number of Indigenous children attending an early childhood education program

608425 | Data Element Concept
The number of Indigenous children attending an early childhood education program at the service.
Standard: Early Childhood

Service provider organisation—number of Indigenous children attending preschool

401432 | Data Element Concept
The number of Indigenous children attending preschool
Standard: Community Services (retired)
Superseded: Early Childhood

Service provider organisation—number of Indigenous children enrolled in a preschool program

441257 | Data Element Concept
The number of Indigenous children enrolled in a preschool program at the service.
Superseded: Early Childhood
Standard: Indigenous

Service provider organisation—number of Indigenous children enrolled in an early childhood education program

608433 | Data Element Concept
The number of Indigenous children enrolled in an early childhood education program at the service.
Standard: Early Childhood

Service provider organisation—number of Indigenous children enrolled in preschool

401417 | Data Element Concept
The number of Indigenous children enrolled in preschool
Standard: Community Services (retired)
Superseded: Early Childhood

Service provider organisation—number of preschool program hours enrolled per week

397191 | Data Element Concept | Early Childhood Data Sub Group (ECDSG)
The number of hours that children are enrolled in a preschool program delivered by a service provider organisation.
Standard: Community Services (retired)
Superseded: Early Childhood

Service provider organisation—number of service operation weeks

269807 | Data Element Concept | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The actual number of weeks during a specified period that the agency is open for the provision of service.
Standard: Community Services (retired), Health, Disability, Indigenous
Superseded: Early Childhood

Service provider organisation—organisation identifier

269787 | Data Element Concept
The unique identifier for the establishment, which provides care or services.
Standard: Community Services (retired), Housing assistance, Early Childhood, Homelessness, Disability

Service provider organisation—preschool attendance hours

397215 | Data Element Concept | Early Childhood Data Sub Group (ECDSG)
The number of hours of attendance at a preschool service administered by a service provider in a given week.
Retired: Community Services (retired)
Superseded: Early Childhood

Service provider organisation—service activity type

357094 | Data Element Concept
The type of service available or provided by a service provider organisation.
Standard: Community Services (retired), Early Childhood, Indigenous, Disability

Service provider organisation—service delivery setting

319812 | Data Element Concept
The type of setting in which service activities are provided or could be provided by a service provider.
Retired: Health
Standard: Community Services (retired), Early Childhood

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