Person—date of birth

Metadata item type:	Data Element Concept
METEOR identifier:	269565
Registration status:	Children and Families, Standard 22/11/2016 Commonwealth Department of Health, Standard 14/10/2015 Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired), Standard 20/06/2018 Community Services (retired), Standard 01/03/2005 Disability, Standard 07/10/2014 Early Childhood, Standard 21/05/2010 Health, Standard 01/03/2005 Homelessness, Standard 23/08/2010 Housing assistance, Standard 27/07/2005 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 01/11/2012 Indigenous, Standard 11/08/2014 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 Tasmanian Health, Standard 31/08/2016 WA Health, Standard 19/03/2015 Youth Justice, Standard 15/02/2022
Definition:	The date of birth of the person.
Context:	Required for a range of clinical and administrative purposes. Date of birth enables derivation of age for use in demographic analyses, assists in the unique identification of clients if other identifying information is missing or in question, and may be required for the derivation of other metadata items (e.g. the diagnosis related group for admitted patients).

Object Class attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Object class:	Person
Definition:	A human being.
Collection and usage attributes
Comments:	Prior to 13 March 2018, the definition of the ‘Person’ Object class was ‘A human being, whether man, woman or child’. From 13 March 2018, the definition was edited by removing the words ‘…whether man, woman or child’ so that a person is defined as ‘A human being’. This amendment was undertaken to align the definition of a person with the Australian Government Guidelines on the Recognition of Sex and Gender and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Standard for Sex and Gender Variables, which recognise that there are sex and gender types that are not exclusively male or female.
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Origin:	Macquarie University 2003. The Macquarie Dictionary 3rd ed. Sydney: The Macquarie Library Pty. Ltd
Reference documents:	Attorney-General's Department 2015. Australian Government Guidelines on the Recognition of Sex and Gender. Viewed 26 July 2016, https://www.ag.gov.au/Publications/Pages/ AustralianGovernmentGuidelines ontheRecognitionofSexandGender.aspx ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics) 2016. Standard for Sex and Gender Variables, 2016. ABS Cat. no. 1200.0.55.012. Canberra: ABS. Viewed 26 July 2016, http://abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/[email protected]/ Lookup/1200.0.55.012 Main+Features12016?OpenDocument

Property attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Property:	Date of birth
Definition:	The date on which an individual was born.
Property group:	Demographic/social/cultural characteristics

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Data element concept attributes

Relational attributes

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Person—date of birth, DDMMYYYY

Community Services (retired), Superseded 25/08/2005
Health, Superseded 04/05/2005

Person—date of birth, DDMMYYYY

ACT Health (retired), Candidate 19/07/2018
Children and Families, Standard 22/11/2016
Commonwealth Department of Health, Standard 14/10/2015
Community Services (retired), Standard 25/08/2005
Disability, Standard 07/10/2014
Early Childhood, Standard 21/05/2010
Health, Standard 04/05/2005
Homelessness, Standard 23/08/2010
Housing assistance, Standard 20/06/2005
Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 01/11/2012
Indigenous, Standard 11/08/2014
National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016
Tasmanian Health, Standard 31/08/2016
WA Health, Incomplete 22/08/2012
WA Health, Standard 19/03/2015
Youth Justice, Standard 15/02/2022

Person—date of birth, MMYYYY

Tasmanian Health, Superseded 06/05/2021

Person—date of birth, MMYYYY

Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired), Standard 20/06/2018
Health, Standard 10/12/2009
National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016
Tasmanian Health, Standard 06/05/2021

Person—date of birth, prisoner health DDMMYYYY

Health, Qualified 25/05/2018

Person—date of birth, YYYY

Tasmanian Health, Standard 06/05/2021