Service event—assistance request date, DDMMYYYY
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Assistance request date |
| METEOR identifier: | 270043 |
| Registration status: | Community Services (retired), Standard 01/03/2005 Homelessness, Superseded 10/08/2018 Housing assistance, Standard 23/08/2010 |
| Definition: | The date on which assistance was requested. |
| Context: | Service provision and planning: This item can be useful for measuring the immediacy of response times and the responsiveness to people’s requests for assistance (in conjunction with the date the assistance commenced and the reason assistance was requested). It also has important uses in measuring actual assistance provided and unmet demand. |
| Data Element Concept: | Service event—assistance request date |
| Value Domain: | Date DDMMYYYY |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
| Representation class: | Date | |
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| Data type: | Date/Time | |
| Format: | DDMMYYYY | |
| Maximum character length: | 8 | |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | This metadata item should always be recorded as an 8-digit valid date comprising day, month and year. Year should always be recorded in its full 4-digit format. For days and months with a numeric value of less than 10, zeros should be used to ensure that the date contains the required 8 digits. For example if a person requested assistance from an agency on 1 July 2000 the Date assistance requested should be recorded as 01072000 as specified in the representational layout. |
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| Collection methods: | This item should be collected on the date on which a person(s) made the initial request for assistance. The person(s) requesting assistance need not necessarily be a client as a request does not necessarily result in provision of a service. May be collected for individual types of assistance or service requested. |
| Comments: | A request does not necessarily result in provision of a service. |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Origin: | Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP) National Data Collection Agency 2001. National Data Collection Data Dictionary. Version 2. Unpublished |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Service event—assistance request date, DDMMYYYY Homelessness, Standard 10/08/2018 Is re-engineered from  Assistance request date, version 1, DE, NCSDD, NCSIMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (14.9 KB)No registration status |
| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2011 Homelessness, Superseded 01/05/2013 Housing assistance, Superseded 01/05/2013 Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2012-13 Homelessness, Superseded 01/05/2013 Housing assistance, Superseded 01/05/2013 Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2013-14 Homelessness, Superseded 26/08/2014 Housing assistance, Superseded 26/08/2014 Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2014-15 Homelessness, Superseded 24/11/2016 Housing assistance, Superseded 24/11/2016 Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2015-17 Homelessness, Superseded 24/11/2016 Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2017-19 Homelessness, Superseded 10/08/2018 |