Person—age (housing assistance), total years N[NN]
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Age |
Synonymous names: | Age |
METEOR identifier: | 270142 |
Registration status: | Housing assistance, Superseded 10/02/2006 |
Definition: | The age of the person in years. |
Data element concept attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Data element concept: | Person—age (housing assistance) |
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METEOR identifier: | 269598 |
Registration status: | Housing assistance, Retired 17/06/2005 |
Definition: | The age of the person. |
Context: | This metadata item is used in analyses of service utilisation by age group and comparisons with demographic statistics. Age is also used as an assistance eligibility criterion. |
Object class: | Person |
Property: | Age |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Bureau of Statistics Australian Institute of Health and Welfare National Community Services Data Committee |
Value domain attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Value domain: | Housing assistance total years N[NN] |
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METEOR identifier: | 270724 |
Registration status: | Housing assistance, Superseded 10/02/2006 |
Definition: | The total number of years. |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | Record the age in single years (if aged under one year, record as 000). If year of birth is known (but date of birth is not) use the date 01/01 of the birth year to estimate age. If age (or date of birth) is unknown or not stated, and cannot be estimated, use code 999. |
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Collection methods: | Although collection of the date of birth allows more precise calculation of age, this is not feasible in some data collections and alternative questions are:
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Comments: | In most community services data collections, age in years is often reported rather than derived from the metadata item Person—date of birth, DDMMYYYY. However, Person—date of birth, DDMMYYYY is the preferred method for collection of age data. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) National Community Services Data Committee |
Origin: | ABS: Directory of concepts and standards for social, labour and demographic statistics, 1995 ABS: 1996 Census Dictionary. Cat. No. 2901, 1996 AIHW: Data Standardisation Project for the development of a national unit record public housing data set, 1998 Home and Community Care Data Dictionary, Version 1, 1998 |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Person—age, total years N[NN] Children and Families, Standard 22/11/2016 Community Services (retired), Standard 29/04/2006 Early Childhood, Standard 21/05/2010 Health, Standard 08/02/2006 Housing assistance, Standard 10/02/2006 Indigenous, Standard 13/03/2015 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 Tasmanian Health, Standard 05/09/2016 WA Health, Standard 04/03/2014 Is re-engineered from Age, version 1, DE, NHADD, NHDAMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (15.5 KB) No registration status |