Person—first service request indicator, yes/no code N

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element
Short name:	First service request indicator
METEOR identifier:	400276
Registration status:	Community Services (retired), Standard 17/11/2010 Homelessness, Superseded 10/08/2018 Housing assistance, Standard 23/08/2010
Definition:	An indicator that a request for service is the first request made by a person to an Agency, as represented by a code.
Data Element Concept:	Person—first service request indicator
Value Domain:	Yes/no/unknown/not stated/inadequately described code N

Value domain attributes
Representational attributes
Representation class:	Code
Data type:	Number
Format:	N
Maximum character length:	1
	Value	Meaning
Permissible values:	1	Yes
	2	No
Supplementary values:	3	Unknown
	9	Not stated/inadequately described

Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Data element attributes
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	Has been superseded by Person—first service request indicator, yes/no/unknown/not stated/inadequately described code N Homelessness, Standard 10/08/2018
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: All attributes +	Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2011 Homelessness, Superseded 01/05/2013 Housing assistance, Superseded 01/05/2013 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2011 DSS specific information: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is collected only for persons who have not received any services requested or assessment, that is, it is collected only for persons known as 'turnaways'. In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is applied to an individual 24-hour reporting period. Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2012-13 Homelessness, Superseded 01/05/2013 Housing assistance, Superseded 01/05/2013 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2012 Implementation end date: 30/06/2013 DSS specific information: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is collected only for persons who have not received any services requested or assessment, that is, it is collected only for persons known as 'turnaways'. In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is applied to an individual 24-hour reporting period. Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2013-14 Homelessness, Superseded 26/08/2014 Housing assistance, Superseded 26/08/2014 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2013 Implementation end date: 30/06/2014 Conditional obligation: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is only collected for turnaways. Turnaways are people who have not received any requested services or assessment. This data element is applied to an individual 24-hour reporting period. Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2014-15 Homelessness, Superseded 24/11/2016 Housing assistance, Superseded 24/11/2016 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2014 Implementation end date: 30/06/2015 Conditional obligation: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is only collected for turnaways. Turnaways are people who have not received any requested services or assessment. This data element is applied to an individual 24-hour reporting period. Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2015-17 Homelessness, Superseded 24/11/2016 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2015 Implementation end date: 30/06/2017 Conditional obligation: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is only collected for turnaways. Turnaways are people who have not received any requested services or assessment. This data element is applied to an individual 24-hour reporting period. Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2017-19 Homelessness, Superseded 10/08/2018 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2017 Implementation end date: 30/06/2019 Conditional obligation: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is only collected for turnaways. Turnaways are people who have not received any requested services or assessment. This data element is applied to an individual 24-hour reporting period.