Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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METEOR identifier: | 269686 |
Registration status: | 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: | The country in which the person was born. |
Context: | 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. |