Medical practitioner—hours worked, total NNN
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Total hours worked by a medical practitioner |
| METEOR identifier: | 270136 |
| Registration status: | Health, Superseded 10/12/2009 |
| Definition: | The 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: | Health labour force |
| Data Element Concept: | Medical practitioner—hours worked |
| Value Domain: | Total hours NNN |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
| Representation class: | Total | |
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| Data type: | String | |
| Format: | NNN | |
| Maximum character length: | 3 | |
| Value | Meaning | |
| Supplementary values: | 999 | Not stated/inadequately described |
| Unit of measure: | Hour (h) | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | Total hours expressed as 000, 001 etc. |
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Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | This metadata item relates to each position (job) held by a medical practitioner, not the aggregate of hours worked in all. |
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| Collection methods: | There 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: | It 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: | National Health Labour Force Data Working Group |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Registered health professional—hours worked in health profession, total hours NNN Health, Standard 10/12/2009 Is re-engineered from  Total hours worked by a medical practitioner, version 2, DE, NHDD, NHIMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (16.0 KB)No registration status |
| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | |
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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), 2013 Health, Superseded 30/04/2014 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 33-Full time equivalent employed health practitioners per 1,000 population (by age group), 2014 Health, Superseded 14/01/2015 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 33-Full time equivalent employed health practitioners per 1,000 population (by age group), 2014 Health, Superseded 14/01/2015 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 33-Full time equivalent employed health practitioners per 1,000 population (by age group), 2015 Health, Superseded 08/07/2016 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 65-Net growth in health workforce, 2011 Health, Superseded 31/10/2011 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 65-Net growth in health workforce, 2012 Health, Superseded 25/06/2013
Used as Denominator
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), 2013 Health, Superseded 30/04/2014 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 65-Net growth in health workforce, 2011 Health, Superseded 31/10/2011 National Healthcare Agreement: PI 65-Net growth in health workforce, 2012 Health, Superseded 25/06/2013 |