Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Profession labour force status of health professional |
METEOR identifier: | 270476 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 10/12/2009 |
Definition: | Employment status of a health professional in a particular profession at the time of registration, as represented by a code. |
Data Element Concept: | Health professional—labour force status |
Value Domain: | Labour force status of health professional code N{.N} |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | Employment in a particular health profession is defined by practice of that profession or work that is principally concerned with the discipline of the profession (for example, research in the field of the profession, administration of the profession, teaching of the profession or health promotion through public dissemination of the professional knowledge of the profession). The term 'employed in the profession' equates to persons who have a job in Australia in the field of the reference profession. A person who is normally employed in the profession but is on leave at the time of the annual survey is defined as being employed. A health professional who is not employed but is eligible to work in, and is seeking employment in the profession, is defined as unemployed in the profession. A health professional looking for work in the profession, and not currently employed in the profession, may be either unemployed or employed in an occupation other than the profession. A registered health professional who is not employed in the profession, nor is looking for work in the profession, is defined as not in the labour force for the profession. Registered health professionals not in the labour force for the profession may be either not employed and not looking for work, or employed in another occupation and not looking for work in the profession. |
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Collection methods: | For the national health labour force collection survey questionnaire, this is the key filter question. It excludes from further survey questions at this point:
It also directs respondents working in the reference state and other states to respond to subsequent questions only in respect of work in the reference state. These distinctions are necessary in order to eliminate multiple counting for respondents renewing licenses to practise in more than one state. |
Comments: | The definitions of employed and unemployed in this metadata item differ from Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) definitions for these categories defined in LFA2 'Employed persons', LFA8 'Labour force status', LFA9 'Looking for full-time work', LFA10 'Looking for part-time work', LFA12 'Not in the labour force', LFA13 'Status in employment', and LFA14 'Unemployed persons'. The main differences are:
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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—labour force status, registered health professional code N Health, Standard 10/12/2009 Is re-engineered from Profession labour force status of health professional, version 1, DE, NHDD, NHIMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (24.8 KB) No registration status |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Health labour force NMDS Health, Superseded 10/12/2009 Implementation start date: 01/07/2005 DSS specific information: This metadata item provides essential data for estimating the size and distribution of the health labour force, monitoring growth, forecasting future supply, and addressing work force planning issues. It was developed by the National Committee for Health and Vital Statistics during the 1980s and endorsed by the Australian Health Ministers Advisory Council in 1990 as a national minimum data set item for development of the national health labour force collections. Health professional-labour force status cluster Health, Superseded 10/12/2009 Implementation start date: 22/02/2010 |