Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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| METEOR identifier: | 269672 |
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| Definition: | The body mass of a person. |
| Context: | Public health and health care: Weight is an overall measure of body size that does not distinguish between fat and muscle. Weight is an indicator of nutrition status and health status. Low pre-pregnancy weight is an indicator of poorer gestational outcome in women (Kramer 1988). Low weight is also associated with osteoporosis. In general, change in weight is of interest in adults because it is an indicator of changing health status. Self reported or parentally reported weight for children and adolescents should be used cautiously if at all. It enables the calculation of body mass index which requires the measurement of height and weight (body mass) for adults. |
Person—weight
Data Element Concept Attributes
Object Class attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Object class: | Person |
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| 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 | |
| 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/ 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]/ |
Property attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Property: | Weight |
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| Definition: | A measurement of body mass. |
| Property group: | Physical characteristics |
Source and reference attributes
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Data element concept attributes
Relational attributes
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Adult—weight
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| Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept: | Person—weight (measured), total grams NNNN
Person—weight (measured), total kilograms N[NN].N
Person—weight (measured), total kilograms N[NN].N
Person—weight (self-reported), total kilograms NN[N]
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