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Person—person identifier

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Element Concept
METEOR identifier:Help on this term287172
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Children and Families, Standard 22/11/2016
  • Community Services (retired), Standard 25/08/2005
  • Disability, Standard 13/08/2015
  • Early Childhood, Standard 08/04/2013
  • Health, Standard 04/05/2005
  • Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 01/11/2012
  • Indigenous, Standard 11/08/2014
  • National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016
  • Tasmanian Health, Standard 01/09/2016
  • WA Health, Standard 19/03/2015
  • Youth Justice, Standard 15/02/2022
Definition:Help on this term

Person identifier unique within an establishment or agency.

Context:Help on this term

This item could be used for editing at the agency, establishment or collection authority level and, potentially, for record linkage. There is no intention that this item would be available beyond collection authority level.

Object Class attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Object class:Person
Definition:Help on this term

A human being.

Collection and usage attributes

Comments:Help on this term

Prior to 13 March 2018, the definition of the ‘Person’ Object class was ‘A human being, whether man, woman or child’. From 13 March 2018, the definition was edited by removing the words ‘…whether man, woman or child’ so that a person is defined as ‘A human being’. This amendment was undertaken to align the definition of a person with the Australian Government Guidelines on the Recognition of Sex and Gender and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Standard for Sex and Gender Variables, which recognise that there are sex and gender types that are not exclusively male or female.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this term

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Origin:Help on this term

Macquarie University 2003. The Macquarie Dictionary 3rd ed. Sydney: The Macquarie Library Pty. Ltd

Reference documents:Help on this term

Attorney-General's Department 2015. Australian Government Guidelines on the Recognition of Sex and Gender. Viewed 26 July 2016, https://www.ag.gov.au/Publications/Pages/
AustralianGovernmentGuidelines
ontheRecognitionofSexandGender.aspx

ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics) 2016. Standard for Sex and Gender Variables, 2016. ABS Cat. no. 1200.0.55.012. Canberra: ABS. Viewed 26 July 2016, http://abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/[email protected]/
Lookup/1200.0.55.012
Main+Features12016?OpenDocument

Property attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Property:Person identifier
Definition:Help on this termA sequence of characters which identify a person.
Property group:Help on this termIdentifier characteristics

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this termNational minimum data set working parties

Data element concept attributes

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Supersedes Person—person identifier (within establishment/agency)
  • Community Services (retired), Superseded 25/08/2005
  • Health, Superseded 04/05/2005
Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept:Help on this term
Person—identifier, children's service worker identifier code N[NN]
  • Community Services (retired), Retired 21/05/2010
Person—person identifier, (child protection and support services) NX[X(13)]
  • Community Services (retired), Standard 30/04/2008
Person—person identifier, child protection NX[X(11)]
  • Children and Families, Standard 22/11/2016
  • Community Services (retired), Candidate 19/08/2011
Person—person identifier, identifier (Tasmanian) N(9)
  • Tasmanian Health, Standard 01/09/2016
Person—person identifier, X(8)
  • WA Health, Standard 19/03/2015
Person—person identifier, X(8)
  • WA Health, Standard 01/06/2017
Person—person identifier, X[X(19)]
  • Health, Standard 29/08/2014
Person—person identifier, XXXXXX[X(14)]
  • ACT Health (retired), Candidate 08/08/2018
  • Commonwealth Department of Health, Recorded 16/07/2015
  • Community Services (retired), Standard 25/08/2005
  • Disability, Standard 13/08/2015
  • Early Childhood, Standard 08/04/2013
  • Health, Standard 04/05/2005
  • Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 01/11/2012
  • Indigenous, Standard 11/08/2014
  • National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016
  • WA Health, Incomplete 22/08/2012
  • Youth Justice, Standard 15/02/2022
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