Proficiency in spoken English code N
Value Domain Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Value Domain |
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| METEOR identifier: | 270771 |
| Registration status: | Community Services (retired), Standard 01/03/2005 Disability, Standard 13/08/2015 Health, Standard 01/03/2005 Housing assistance, Standard 10/02/2006 |
| Definition: | A code set representing the level of ability to speak English. |
Representational attributes | ||
| Representation class: | Code | |
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| Data type: | Number | |
| Format: | N | |
| Maximum character length: | 1 | |
| Value | Meaning | |
| Permissible values: | 0 | Not applicable (persons under 5 years of age or who speak only English) |
| 1 | Very well | |
| 2 | Well | |
| 3 | Not well | |
| 4 | Not at all | |
| Supplementary values: | 9 | Not stated/inadequately described |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | CODE 0 Not applicable (persons under 5 years of age or who speak only English) Not applicable, is to be used for people under 5 year of age and people who speak only English. CODE 9 Not stated/inadequately described Not stated/inadequately described, is not to be used on primary collection forms. It is primarily for use in administrative collections when transferring data from data sets where the item has not been collected. |
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| Comments: | The ABS advises that the most useful information provided by this metadata item is in the distinction between the two category groups of Very well/Well and Not well/Not at all. |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Reference documents: | Standards for Statistics on Cultural and Language Diversity 1999. Cat. no. 1289.0. Canberra: ABS. |
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Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Proficiency in spoken English code N Homelessness, Standard 10/08/2018 |
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| Data elements implementing this value domain: | Person—proficiency in spoken English, code N Community Services (retired), Standard 01/03/2005 Disability, Standard 13/08/2015 Health, Standard 01/03/2005 Housing assistance, Standard 10/02/2006 |