Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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| METEOR identifier: | 269894 |
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| Definition: | The numeric descriptor for a postal delivery area, aligned with locality, suburb or place for the address of a person. |
| Context: | Postcode is an important part of a person's postal address and facilitates written communication. It is one of a number of geographic identifiers that can be used to determine a geographic location. Postcode may assist with uniquely identifying a person. |
Person (address)—Australian postcode
Object Class attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Object class: | Person |
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| METEOR identifier: | 268955 |
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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 | |
| 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/ 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: | Australian postcode |
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| METEOR identifier: | 269316 |
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| Definition: | The numeric descriptor for a postal delivery area, aligned with locality, suburb or place. |
| Context: | Postcode is an important part of a postal address and facilitates written communication. It is one of a number of geographic identifiers that can be used to determine a geographic location. |
| Property group: | Location characteristics |
Source and reference attributes
| Submitting organisation: | Standards Australia Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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