Second job of registered midwife cluster

Identifying and definitional attributes

• Health, Standard 10/12/2009

The second job of registered midwives who were employed in more than one job in the profession during the reference week.

The second job is defined as the post or position, funded by an organisation, in which the health professional worked the second longest hours during the reference week in Australia. The health professional may be an employee or they may be self-employed with the organisation.

Collection and usage attributes

The statistical unit for this data set is the Registered midwife.

A Registered midwife refers to a person who is currently registered, or who has been registered, with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency as a midwife at any time during the reference period.

Data elements in this cluster assist in describing the type and distribution of services of registered midwives in their second job. The cluster forms part of the Registered midwifery labour force DSS, along with Main job of registered midwife cluster, Work setting hours cluster, and a range of other data elements.

Data elements in this cluster are collected only from those midwives employed in more than one job in the profession. Data elements in the Main job of registered midwife cluster are collected from all midwives employed in the profession.  All other workforce data elements in the Registered midwifery labour force DSS are collected from all midwives registered in the profession, and relate to all jobs held in the profession.

Registered health professionals on leave at the time of registration are asked to report based on the job that is usually their second job.

The second job:

• includes time spent travelling to home visits or calls out;
• excludes other time travelling between work locations; and 
• excludes unpaid professional and/or voluntary activities.

Source and reference attributes

Relational attributes