Person—year of first arrival in Australia, date YYYY

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element
Short name:	Year of arrival in Australia
METEOR identifier:	269929
Registration status:	Community Services (retired), Standard 01/03/2005 Disability, Standard 13/08/2015 Health, Standard 04/05/2005 Homelessness, Standard 23/08/2010 Housing assistance, Standard 23/08/2010
Definition:	The year a person (born outside of Australia) first arrived in Australia, from another country, with the intention of staying in Australia for one year or more.
Data Element Concept:	Person—year of first arrival in Australia
Value Domain:	Date YYYY

Value domain attributes
Representational attributes
Representation class:	Date
Data type:	Date/Time
Format:	YYYY
Maximum character length:	4

Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Data element attributes
Collection and usage attributes
Collection methods:	Actual year of arrival in Australia. Recommended question: In what year did you/the person first arrive in Australia to live here for one year or more? (Write in the calendar year of arrival or mark the box if here less than one year) Calendar year of arrival Will be here less than one year It is anticipated that for the majority of people their response to the question will be the year of their only arrival in Australia. However, some respondents may have multiple arrivals in Australia. To deal with these cases in self-enumerated collections, an instruction such as 'Please indicate the year of first arrival only' should be included with the question. While agencies are encouraged to use the recommended question described above, it is acknowledged that this is not always possible in practice. For example, where the data collection is a by-product of the provision of a health or community service, the information may be ascertained using different means. However, the recommended question should be used wherever practically possible.
Source and reference attributes
Origin:	The Australian Bureau of Statistics Standard for Year of Arrival in Australia. (last viewed 05/12/2006)
Reference documents:	The ABS standard for Year of arrival in Australia appears on the ABS website http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/[email protected]/Latestproducts/ 4AD888364A44E87DCA25697E0018FE4C?opendocument select Other ABS Statistical Standards/Standards for Social, Labour and Demographic Variables/Cultural Diversity Variable.
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	Is re-engineered from Year of arrival in Australia, version 2, DE, NCSDD, NCSIMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (15.5 KB) No registration status
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: All attributes +	Computer Assisted Telephone Interview demographic module DSS Health, Superseded 03/12/2008 Computer Assisted Telephone Interview demographic module NBPDS Health, Standard 03/12/2008 DSS specific attributes + Conditional obligation: Conditional on respondent being from a country that is not Australia. Cultural and language diversity cluster Community Services (retired), Standard 10/04/2013 Disability, Standard 13/08/2015 Dementia NBPDS Health, Standard 05/10/2022 DSS specific attributes + Conditional obligation: This item should only be completed if Australia was not selected for the data element Person—country of birth, code (SACC 2016) NNNN. DSS specific information: This data element should be collected in conjunction with the Date—accuracy indicator, code AAA data element as an indicator of the accuracy of the components of a reported date. Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2011 Homelessness, Superseded 01/05/2013 Housing assistance, Superseded 01/05/2013 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2011 DSS specific information: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this Data Element is ascertained for all persons who have indicated that their Country of Birth is not Australia. Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2012-13 Homelessness, Superseded 01/05/2013 Housing assistance, Superseded 01/05/2013 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2012 Implementation end date: 30/06/2013 DSS specific information: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this Data Element is ascertained for all persons who have indicated that their Country of Birth is not Australia. Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2013-14 Homelessness, Superseded 26/08/2014 Housing assistance, Superseded 26/08/2014 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2013 Implementation end date: 30/06/2014 Conditional obligation: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this Data Element is ascertained for all clients who have indicated that their Country of Birth is not Australia. DSS specific information: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is collected at the date of presentation. The supplementary code Don't know (Code 9999) is used to process client data if a valid year of arrival is not provided. Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2014-15 Homelessness, Superseded 24/11/2016 Housing assistance, Superseded 24/11/2016 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2014 Implementation end date: 30/06/2015 Conditional obligation: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this Data Element is ascertained for all clients who have indicated that their Country of Birth is not Australia. DSS specific information: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is collected at the date of presentation. The supplementary code Don't know (Code 9999) is used to process client data if a valid year of arrival is not provided. Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2015-17 Homelessness, Superseded 24/11/2016 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2015 Implementation end date: 30/06/2017 Conditional obligation: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this Data Element is ascertained for all clients who have indicated that their Country of Birth is not Australia. DSS specific information: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is collected at the date of presentation. The supplementary code Don't know (Code 9999) is used to process client data if a valid year of arrival is not provided. Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2017-19 Homelessness, Superseded 10/08/2018 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2017 Implementation end date: 30/06/2019 Conditional obligation: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is ascertained for all clients who have indicated that their Country of Birth is not Australia. DSS specific information: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is collected at the date of presentation. The supplementary code Don't know (Code 9999) is used to process client data if a valid year of arrival is not provided. Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2019- Homelessness, Standard 10/08/2018 DSS specific attributes + Conditional obligation: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is ascertained for all clients who have indicated that their Country of Birth is not Australia. DSS specific information: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is collected at the date of presentation. The supplementary code Don't know (Code 9999) is used to process client data if a valid year of arrival is not provided.