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Person—country of birth

Data Element Concept Attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Element Concept
METEOR identifier:Help on this term269686
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Aged Care, Standard 30/06/2023
  • Australian Teacher Workforce Data Oversight Board, Standard 30/08/2022
  • Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired), Standard 20/06/2018
  • Community Services (retired), Standard 01/03/2005
  • Disability, Standard 07/10/2014
  • Health, Standard 01/03/2005
  • Homelessness, Standard 23/08/2010
  • Housing assistance, Standard 27/07/2005
  • Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 01/11/2012
  • Tasmanian Health, Standard 31/08/2016
  • WA Health, Standard 19/03/2015
  • Youth Justice, Standard 15/02/2022
Definition:Help on this term

The country in which the person was born.

Context:Help on this term

Country of birth is important in the study of access to services by different population sub-groups. Country of birth is the most easily collected and consistently reported of a range of possible data items that may indicate cultural or language diversity. Country of birth may be used in conjunction with other data such as period of residence in Australia, etc., to derive more sophisticated measures of access to (or need for) services by different population sub-groups.

Object Class attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Object class:Person
Definition:Help on this term

A human being.

Collection and usage attributes

Comments:Help on this term

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:Help on this term

Macquarie University 2003. The Macquarie Dictionary 3rd ed. Sydney: The Macquarie Library Pty. Ltd

Reference documents:Help on this term

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:Country of birth
Definition:Help on this term

The country in which an individual was born.

Property group:Help on this termDemographic/social/cultural characteristics

Data element concept attributes

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this termAustralian Institute of Health and Welfare

Relational attributes

Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept:Help on this term
Person—country of birth, code (SACC 1998) NNNN
  • Community Services (retired), Superseded 02/06/2008
  • Health, Superseded 01/10/2008
  • Housing assistance, Superseded 24/11/2008
Person—country of birth, code (SACC 2008) NNNN
  • Community Services (retired), Superseded 13/10/2011
  • Health, Superseded 22/11/2011
  • Homelessness, Superseded 13/10/2011
  • Housing assistance, Superseded 13/10/2011
Person—country of birth, code (SACC 2011) NNNN
  • Community Services (retired), Standard 13/10/2011
  • Disability, Standard 07/10/2014
  • Health, Superseded 06/12/2016
  • Homelessness, Superseded 10/08/2018
  • Housing assistance, Standard 13/10/2011
  • Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 01/11/2012
  • Tasmanian Health, Superseded 08/03/2017
  • WA Health, Standard 19/03/2015
  • Youth Justice, Superseded 23/08/2022
Person—country of birth, code (SACC 2016) NNNN
  • Aged Care, Standard 30/06/2023
  • Australian Teacher Workforce Data Oversight Board, Standard 30/08/2022
  • Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired), Standard 20/06/2018
  • Disability, Standard 15/12/2017
  • Health, Standard 06/12/2016
  • Homelessness, Standard 10/08/2018
  • Tasmanian Health, Standard 27/06/2017
  • Youth Justice, Standard 15/02/2022
Person—country of birth, code NN[N]
  • Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Recorded 11/08/2023
Person—country of birth, text X[X(99)]
  • Health, Recorded 22/12/2022
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