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Medical practitioner—hours worked, total NNN

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Element
Short name:Help on this termTotal hours worked by a medical practitioner
METEOR identifier:Help on this term270136
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Superseded 10/12/2009
Definition:Help on this termThe total hours worked in a week in a job by a medical practitioner, including any on-call hours actually worked (includes patient care and administration).
Context:Help on this term

Health labour force

Data Element Concept:Medical practitioner—hours worked

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Representation class:Help on this termTotal
Data type:Help on this termString
Format:Help on this termNNN
Maximum character length:Help on this term3
Supplementary values:Help on this term
ValueMeaning
999Not stated/inadequately described
Unit of measure:Help on this termHour (h)

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:Help on this termTotal hours expressed as 000, 001 etc.

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:Help on this termThis metadata item relates to each position (job) held by a medical practitioner, not the aggregate of hours worked in all.
Collection methods:Help on this termThere are inherent problems in asking for information on number of hours usually worked per week, for example, reaching a satisfactory definition and communicating this definition to the respondents in a self-administered survey. Whether hours worked are collected for main job only, or main job and one or more additional jobs, it is important that a total for all jobs is included.
Comments:Help on this termIt is often argued that health professionals contribute a considerable amount of time to voluntary professional work and that this component needs to be identified. This should be considered as an additional item, and kept segregated from data on paid hours worked.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this termNational Health Labour Force Data Working Group

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Supersedes PDFTotal hours worked by a medical practitioner, version 2, DE, NHDD, NHIMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (16.0 KB) No registration status
Has been superseded by Registered health professional—hours worked in health profession, total hours NNN
  • Health, Standard 10/12/2009
Implementation in Data Set Specifications:Help on this term
All attributes +

Health labour force NMDSHealth, Superseded 10/12/2009

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2005

DSS specific information:

Value must be less than 169 (except for 999).

Used in relation to issues of economic activity, productivity, wage rates, working conditions etc. Used to develop capacity measures relating to total time available. Assists in analysis of human resource requirements and labour force modelling. Used to determine full-time and part-time work status and to compute full-time equivalents (FTE) (see entry for FTE). Often the definition for full-time or FTE differs (35, 37.5 and 40 hours) and knowing total hours and numbers of individuals allows for variances in FTE.


Implementation in Indicators:Help on this term
Used as Numerator

National Healthcare Agreement: P65-Net growth in health workforce, 2010 Health, Superseded 08/06/2011

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 33-Full time equivalent employed health practitioners per 1,000 population (by age group), 2013Health, Superseded 30/04/2014

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 33-Full time equivalent employed health practitioners per 1,000 population (by age group), 2014Health, Superseded 14/01/2015

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 33-Full time equivalent employed health practitioners per 1,000 population (by age group), 2014Health, Superseded 14/01/2015

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 33-Full time equivalent employed health practitioners per 1,000 population (by age group), 2015Health, Superseded 08/07/2016

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 65-Net growth in health workforce, 2011Health, Superseded 31/10/2011

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 65-Net growth in health workforce, 2012Health, Superseded 25/06/2013

Used as Denomirator

National Healthcare Agreement: P65-Net growth in health workforce, 2010 Health, Superseded 08/06/2011

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 33-Full time equivalent employed health practitioners per 1,000 population (by age group), 2013Health, Superseded 30/04/2014

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 65-Net growth in health workforce, 2011Health, Superseded 31/10/2011

National Healthcare Agreement: PI 65-Net growth in health workforce, 2012Health, Superseded 25/06/2013

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