Person—labour force status, acute hospital and private psychiatric hospital admission code N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Employment status (admitted patient) |
| METEOR identifier: | 269948 |
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| Definition: | Self-reported employment status of a person, immediately prior to admission to an acute or private psychiatric hospital, as represented by a code. |
| Context: | The Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council Health Targets and Implementation Committee (1988) identified socioeconomic status as the most important factor explaining health differentials in the Australian population. The committee recommended that national health statistics routinely identify the various groups of concern. This requires routine recording in all collections of indicators of socioeconomic status. In order of priority, these would be: employment status, income, occupation and education. |
| Data Element Concept: | Person—labour force status |
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| Representation class: | Code | ||||||
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| Data type: | Number | ||||||
| Format: | N | ||||||
| Maximum character length: | 1 | ||||||
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| Collection methods: | In practice, this metadata item and current or last occupation could probably be collected with a single question, as is done in Western Australia:
For example:
However, for national reporting purposes it is preferable to distinguish these two data items logically. | ||||||
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| Submitting organisation: | National minimum data set working parties | ||||||
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| Related metadata references: | Is re-engineered from  Employment status - acute hospital and private psychiatric hospital admissions, version 2, DE, NHDD, NHIMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (15.1 KB) No registration status | ||||||
| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Health, Superseded 05/10/2016 Health, Superseded 25/01/2018 Health, Superseded 12/12/2018 Health, Superseded 18/12/2019 Health, Superseded 05/02/2021 Health, Superseded 20/10/2021 Health, Superseded 20/12/2022 Health, Standard 20/12/2022 Health, Qualified 08/09/2023 Health, Superseded 23/10/2006 Health, Superseded 07/12/2005 Health, Superseded 05/02/2008 Health, Superseded 04/02/2009 Health, Superseded 05/01/2010 Health, Superseded 18/01/2011 Health, Superseded 07/12/2011 Health, Superseded 02/05/2013 Health, Superseded 15/10/2014 Health, Superseded 04/02/2015 Health, Superseded 19/11/2015 | ||||||