Average for the counting period

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
METEOR identifier:	373642
Registration status:	Health, Standard 03/12/2008
Definition:	The average for the counting period is calculated by summing all the individual counts and dividing it by the number of periods for which a count was taken. For the reporting year, if a count was taken n times, the average is calculated as the SUM (Count1 + Count2 + ...Countn) DIVIDED by n. A reporting year is a financial year. It begins on 1 July and ends on 30 June of the following year.

Relational attributes
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