Data element concept attributes |
Identifying and definitional attributes |
| Data element concept: | Person—country of birth |
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METEOR identifier: | 269686 |
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| Registration status: | - ACT Health (retired), Candidate 19/07/2018
- Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired), Standard 20/06/2018
- Community Services (retired), Standard 01/03/2005
- Disability, Standard 07/10/2014
- Health, Standard 01/03/2005
- Homelessness, Standard 23/08/2010
- Housing assistance, Standard 27/07/2005
- Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 01/11/2012
- Tasmanian Health, Standard 31/08/2016
- WA Health, Standard 19/03/2015
- Youth Justice, Standard 15/02/2022
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| Definition: | The country in which the person was born. |
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| Context: | Country of birth is important in the study of access to services by different population sub-groups. Country of birth is the most easily collected and consistently reported of a range of possible data items that may indicate cultural or language diversity. Country of birth may be used in conjunction with other data such as period of residence in Australia, etc., to derive more sophisticated measures of access to (or need for) services by different population sub-groups. |
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| Object class: | Person |
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| Property: | Country of birth |
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Value domain attributes |
Identifying and definitional attributes |
| Value domain: | Country code (SACC 1998) NNNN |
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| METEOR identifier: | 270812 |
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| Registration status: | |
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| Definition: | A SACC code set representing a country. |
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Representational attributes |
| Classification scheme: | Standard Australian Classification of Countries 1998 |
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| Representation class: | Code |
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| Data type: | Number |
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| Format: | NNNN |
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| Maximum character length: | 4 |
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Collection and usage attributes |
| Guide for use: | The Standard Australian Classification of Countries 1998 (SACC) is a four-digit, three-level hierarchical structure specifying major group, minor group and country. A country, even if it comprises other discrete political entities such as states, is treated as a single unit for all data domain purposes. Parts of a political entity are not included in different groups. Thus, Hawaii is included in Northern America (as part of the identified country United States of America), despite being geographically close to and having similar social and cultural characteristics as the units classified to Polynesia. |
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Data element attributes |
Collection and usage attributes |
| Collection methods: | Some data collections ask respondents to specify their country of birth. In others, a pre-determined set of countries is specified as part of the question, usually accompanied by an ‘other (please specify)’ category. Recommended questions are: In which country were you/was the person/was (name) born? Australia Other (please specify) Alternatively, a list of countries may be used based on, for example common Census responses. In which country were you/was the person/was (name) born? Australia England New Zealand Italy Viet Nam Scotland Greece Germany Philippines India Netherlands Other (please specify) In either case coding of data should conform to the SACC. Sometimes respondents are simply asked to specify whether they were born in either 'English speaking' or 'non-English speaking' countries but this question is of limited use and this method of collection is not recommended. |
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Source and reference attributes |
| Origin: | National Health Data Committee National Community Services Data Committee |
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Relational attributes |
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Implementation in Data Set Specifications:
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Country of birth, version 4, DE, Int. NCSDD & NHDD, NCSIMG & NHIMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (19.9 KB) No registration status