Person (address)—country identifier, code (SACC 2008) NNNN
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Address—country identifier (person) |
| METEOR identifier: | 370937 |
| Registration status: | Community Services (retired), Superseded 28/02/2012 Health, Superseded 28/02/2012 |
| Definition: | The country component of the address of a person, as represented by a code. |
| Data Element Concept: | Person (address)—country identifier |
| Value Domain: | Country code (SACC 2008) NNNN |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
| Classification scheme: | Standard Australian Classification of Countries 2008 | |
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| Representation class: | Code | |
| Data type: | Number | |
| Format: | NNNN | |
| Maximum character length: | 4 | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | The Standard Australian Classification of Countries 2008 (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: | Collect the data at the 4-digit level. |
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| Comments: | Note that the Standard Australian Classification of Countries (SACC) is mappable to but not identical to Australian Standard Classification of Countries for Social Statistics (ASCCSS). |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Reference documents: | Standard Australian Classification of Countries Edition 2, Catalogue number 1269.0, 2008, Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Person (address)—country identifier, code (SACC 1998) NNNN Community Services (retired), Superseded 02/06/2008 Health, Superseded 01/10/2008 Has been superseded by Address—country identifier, country code (ISO 3166) AA Community Services (retired), Standard 06/02/2012 Disability, Standard 13/08/2015 Has been superseded by Person (address)—country identifier, code (SACC 2011) NNNN Community Services (retired), Standard 28/02/2012 Health, Superseded 05/10/2016 |
| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Health care client identification DSS Health, Retired 20/03/2013 Health care provider identification DSS Health, Retired 20/03/2013 |