Service provider organisation (address)—suburb/town/locality name, text A[A(49)]
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Suburb/town/locality name (service provider organisation) |
| METEOR identifier: | 290059 |
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| Definition: | The full name of the general locality containing the specific address of an organisation, as represented by text. |
| Data Element Concept: | Service provider organisation (address)—suburb/town/locality name |
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| Representation class: | Text | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Data type: | String | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Format: | A[A(49)] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum character length: | 50 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Guide for use: | The suburb/town/locality name may be a town, city, suburb or commonly used location name such as a large agricultural property or Aboriginal community. The Australian Bureau of Statistics has suggested that a maximum field length of 50 characters should be sufficient to record the vast majority of locality names. This metadata item may be used to describe the location of an organisation. It can be a component of a street or postal address. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection methods: | Enter 'Unknown' when the locality name or geographic area for an organisation is not known. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source and reference attributes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Origin: | National Health Data Committee National Community Services Data Committee Australia Post 2005. Australia Postcode File. Viewed 12 April www.auspost.com.au/postcodes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Reference documents: | AS5017 Health Care Client Identification, 2002, Sydney: Standards Australia AS4846 Health Care Provider Identification, 2004, Sydney: Standards Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Address—suburb/town/locality name, text X[X(45)]
Is used in the formation of Service provider organisation (address)—postal delivery point identifier, {N(8)}
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| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: All attributes + |
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