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Address—suburb/town/locality name, text X[X(45)]

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Element
Short name:Help on this termSuburb/town/locality name within address
Synonymous names:Help on this termSuburb name; Locality name
METEOR identifier:Help on this term429889
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Children and Families, Standard 22/11/2016
  • Community Services (retired), Standard 06/02/2012
  • Disability, Standard 13/08/2015
  • Early Childhood, Standard 09/03/2012
  • Health, Standard 07/12/2011
  • Homelessness, Standard 01/05/2013
  • Housing assistance, Standard 01/05/2013
  • Indigenous, Standard 13/03/2015
  • Tasmanian Health, Standard 01/09/2016
  • Youth Justice, Standard 15/02/2022
Definition:Help on this termThe name of the locality/suburb of the address, as represented by text.

Data element concept attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Data element concept:Address—suburb/town/locality name
METEOR identifier:Help on this term429887
Registration status:Help on this term
  • ACT Health (retired), Candidate 10/08/2018
  • Children and Families, Standard 22/11/2016
  • Community Services (retired), Standard 06/02/2012
  • Disability, Standard 13/08/2015
  • Early Childhood, Standard 09/03/2012
  • Health, Standard 07/12/2011
  • Homelessness, Standard 02/05/2013
  • Housing assistance, Standard 02/05/2013
  • Indigenous, Standard 13/03/2015
  • Tasmanian Health, Standard 01/09/2016
  • WA Health, Standard 19/03/2015
  • Youth Justice, Standard 15/02/2022
Definition:Help on this termThe name of the locality/suburb of the address.
Object class:Help on this termAddress
Property:Help on this termSuburb/town/locality name

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this termAustralian Institute of Health and Welfare
Origin:Help on this termStandards Australia 2006. AS 4590—2006 Interchange of client information. Sydney: Standards Australia.

Value domain attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Value domain:Text X[X(45)]
METEOR identifier:Help on this term429885
Registration status:Help on this term
  • ACT Health (retired), Candidate 10/08/2018
  • Children and Families, Standard 22/11/2016
  • Community Services (retired), Standard 06/02/2012
  • Disability, Standard 13/08/2015
  • Early Childhood, Standard 09/03/2012
  • Health, Standard 07/12/2011
  • Homelessness, Standard 11/08/2014
  • Housing assistance, Standard 01/05/2013
  • Indigenous, Standard 13/03/2015
  • Tasmanian Health, Standard 01/09/2016
  • Youth Justice, Standard 15/02/2022
Definition:Help on this termA combination of alphanumeric characters.

Representational attributes

Representation class:Help on this termText
Data type:Help on this termString
Format:Help on this termX[X(45)]
Maximum character length:Help on this term46

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:Help on this term

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.

This metadata item may be used to describe the location of an organisation or person. It can be a component of a street or postal address.

If used for mailing purposes, the format of this data element should be upper case. Refer to Australia Post Address Presentation Standard. Any forced abbreviations shall be done by truncation from the right.

This data element is one of a number of items that can be used to create a primary address, as recommended by the AS 4590-2006 Interchange of client information standard. Components of the primary address are:

  • Address site (or Primary complex) name
  • Address number or number range
  • Road name (name/type/suffix)
  • Locality
  • State/Territory
  • Postcode (optional)
  • Country (if applicable).
Comments:Help on this termOfficial locality names and their associated boundary extents are assigned by relevant state naming committees/protocols. Their correct usage is encouraged.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this termAustralian Institute of Health and Welfare
Origin:Help on this termStandards Australia 2006. AS 4590—2006 Interchange of client information. Sydney: Standards Australia.

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
See also Address—statistical area, level 2 (SA2) code (ASGS 2011) N(9)
  • Children and Families, Superseded 21/01/2021
  • Community Services (retired), Standard 06/12/2011
  • Disability, Standard 13/08/2015
  • Health, Superseded 06/12/2016
See also Address—statistical area, level 2 (SA2) code (ASGS 2016) N(9)
  • ACT Health (retired), Candidate 08/08/2018
  • Children and Families, Standard 20/01/2021
  • Health, Superseded 20/10/2021
See also Address—statistical area, level 2 (SA2) code (ASGS Edition 3) N(9)
  • Health, Standard 20/10/2021
See also Address—suburb/town/locality name, text X[X(49)]
  • WA Health, Standard 19/03/2015
Supersedes Person (address)—suburb/town/locality name, text A[A(49)]
  • Community Services (retired), Superseded 06/02/2012
  • Early Childhood, Superseded 09/03/2012
  • Health, Superseded 07/12/2011
  • Homelessness, Standard 23/08/2010
  • Housing assistance, Superseded 01/05/2013
Supersedes Service provider organisation (address)—suburb/town/locality name, text A[A(49)]
  • Community Services (retired), Superseded 06/02/2012
  • Early Childhood, Superseded 09/03/2012
  • Health, Superseded 07/12/2011
  • Housing assistance, Superseded 01/05/2013
  • Indigenous, Superseded 13/03/2015
Supersedes Workplace (address)—suburb/town/locality name, text A[A(49)]
  • Health, Superseded 07/12/2011
Implementation in Data Set Specifications:Help on this term
All attributes +

Address components clusterHealth, Standard 05/10/2016

Address details clusterACT Health (retired), Candidate 10/08/2018
Health, Superseded 18/12/2019

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2016


Address details clusterHealth, Standard 18/12/2019

Address details data dictionaryCommunity Services (retired), Standard 06/02/2012
Disability, Standard 13/08/2015

Alcohol and other drug treatment services NMDS 2022–23Health, Standard 17/12/2021

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2022

Implementation end date: 30/06/2023

Conditional obligation:

This data element is collected on a Conditional basis with the element Address—statistical area, level 2 (SA2) code (ASGS Edition 3) N(9) of client. Data must be reported for one of the two elements, either Address—suburb/town/locality name of client or Address—statistical area, level 2 (SA2) of client.

DSS specific information:

This data element is collected relating to the client's last known home address at the start of the treatment episode.

The suburb/town/locality name of client provided must match the location of the Address—Australian postcode, code (Postcode datafile) NNNN of client provided.


Alcohol and other drug treatment services NMDS 2023-24Health, Recorded 29/07/2022

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2023

Implementation end date: 30/06/2024

Conditional obligation:

This data element is collected on a Conditional basis with the element Address—statistical area, level 2 (SA2) code (ASGS Edition 3) N(9) of client. Data must be reported for one of the two elements, either Address—suburb/town/locality name of client or Address—statistical area, level 2 (SA2) of client.

DSS specific information:

This data element is collected relating to the client's last known home address at the start of the treatment episode.

The suburb/town/locality name of client provided must match the location of the Address—Australian postcode, code (Postcode datafile) NNNN of client provided.


Collection of locality, postcode and state/territory for SEIFA clusterCommunity Services (retired), Not progressed 17/01/2018
Early Childhood, Superseded 24/07/2018
Health, Standard 29/08/2014

Collection of locality, postcode and state/territory for SEIFA clusterEarly Childhood, Standard 24/07/2018

Community housing and Indigenous community housing service provider organisation address details clusterHousing assistance, Standard 01/05/2013
Indigenous, Standard 01/05/2013

Community Housing DSS 2018-Housing assistance, Standard 10/05/2019

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2018

DSS specific information:

This metadata item is collected twice, once for the community housing provider's address (in the organisation file) and once for the dwelling address (in the dwelling file).


Community housing dwelling address details clusterHousing assistance, Standard 01/05/2013

Dwelling (housing assistance) clusterHousing assistance, Standard 19/12/2017

DSS specific attributes +

DSS specific information:

This item is used to collect the dwelling suburb.

Early Childhood Education and Care: Aggregate NMDS 2012Early Childhood, Superseded 08/04/2013

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2012

DSS specific information:

Should be reported for the physical location at which the preschool program is delivered.

Early Childhood Education and Care: Aggregate NMDS 2013Early Childhood, Superseded 28/05/2014

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2013

DSS specific information:

Should be reported for the physical location at which the preschool program is delivered.

Early Childhood Education and Care: Aggregate NMDS 2014Early Childhood, Superseded 01/06/2015

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2014

DSS specific information:

Should be reported for the physical location at which the early childhood education program is delivered. If the early childhood education program is received in a home-based setting (i.e. via distance education programs such as school of the air or e-Kindy), then the location of the service provider delivering the program should be used as the basis for the address, rather than the home-based setting.


Early Childhood Education and Care: Aggregate NMDS 2015Early Childhood, Standard 01/06/2015

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2015

DSS specific information:

Should be reported for the physical location at which the early childhood education program is delivered. If the early childhood education program is received in a home-based setting (i.e. via distance education programs such as school of the air or e-Kindy), then the location of the service provider delivering the program should be used as the basis for the address, rather than the home-based setting.


Early Childhood Education and Care: Aggregate NMDS 2016Early Childhood, Superseded 24/07/2018

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2016

Implementation end date: 30/06/2017

DSS specific information:

Should be reported for the physical location at which the early childhood education program is delivered. If the early childhood education program is received in a home-based setting (i.e. via distance education programs such as school of the air or e-Kindy), then the location of the service provider delivering the program should be used as the basis for the address, rather than the home-based setting.


Early Childhood Education and Care: Aggregate NMDS 2017Early Childhood, Superseded 24/07/2018

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2017

Implementation end date: 01/06/2018

DSS specific information:

Should be reported for the physical location at which the early childhood education program is delivered. If the early childhood education program is received in a home-based setting (i.e. via distance education programs such as school of the air or e-Kindy), then the location of the service provider delivering the program should be used as the basis for the address, rather than the home-based setting.


Early Childhood Education and Care: Aggregate NMDS 2018Early Childhood, Standard 24/07/2018

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2018

DSS specific information:

Should be reported for the physical location at which the early childhood education program is delivered. If the early childhood education program is received in a home-based setting (i.e. via distance education programs such as school of the air or e-Kindy), then the location of the service provider delivering the program should be used as the basis for the address, rather than the home-based setting.


Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2012Early Childhood, Superseded 08/04/2013

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2012

DSS specific information:

This item should be collected twice: once for the child and once for the early childhood education and care service.

Child

Should be reported for the usual residence of the child’s parent or guardian. Do not report the post office box, suburb/town/locality name or other non-residential address of the child’s parent or guardian.

Early childhood education and care service

Should be reported for the physical location at which the preschool program is delivered.


Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2013Early Childhood, Superseded 28/05/2014

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2013

DSS specific information:

This item should be collected twice: once for the child and once for the early childhood education and care service.

Child

Should be reported for the usual residence of the child’s parent or guardian. Do not report the post office box, suburb/town/locality name or other non-residential address of the child’s parent or guardian.

Early childhood education and care service

Should be reported for the physical location at which the preschool program is delivered.


Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2014Early Childhood, Superseded 01/06/2015

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2014

DSS specific information:

This item should be collected twice: once for the child and once for the early childhood education and care service.

Child

Should be reported for the usual residence of the child’s parent or guardian. Do not report the suburb/town/locality name based on a post office box or other non-residential address of the child’s parent or guardian.

Early childhood education and care service

Should be reported for the physical location at which the early childhood education program is delivered. If the early childhood education program is received in a home-based setting (i.e. via distance education programs such as school of the air or e-Kindy), then the location of the service provider delivering the program should be used as the basis for the address, rather than the home-based setting.


Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2015Early Childhood, Superseded 24/07/2018

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2015

DSS specific information:

This item should be collected twice: once for the child and once for the early childhood education and care service.

Child

Should be reported for the usual residence of the child’s parent or guardian. Do not report the suburb/town/locality name based on a post office box or other non-residential address of the child’s parent or guardian.

Early childhood education and care service

Should be reported for the physical location at which the early childhood education program is delivered. If the early childhood education program is received in a home-based setting (i.e. via distance education programs such as school of the air or e-Kindy), then the location of the service provider delivering the program should be used as the basis for the address, rather than the home-based setting.


Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2016Early Childhood, Superseded 24/07/2018

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2016

Implementation end date: 30/06/2017

DSS specific information:

This item should be collected twice: once for the child and once for the early childhood education and care service.

Child

Should be reported for the usual residence of the child’s parent or guardian. Do not report the suburb/town/locality name based on a post office box or other non-residential address of the child’s parent or guardian.

Early childhood education and care service

Should be reported for the physical location at which the early childhood education program is delivered. If the early childhood education program is received in a home-based setting (i.e. via distance education programs such as school of the air or e-Kindy), then the location of the service provider delivering the program should be used as the basis for the address, rather than the home-based setting.


Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2017Early Childhood, Superseded 24/07/2018

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2017

Implementation end date: 30/06/2018

DSS specific information:

This item should be collected twice: once for the child and once for the early childhood education and care service.

Child

Should be reported for the usual residence of the child’s parent or guardian. Do not report the suburb/town/locality name based on a post office box or other non-residential address of the child’s parent or guardian.

Early childhood education and care service

Should be reported for the physical location at which the early childhood education program is delivered. If the early childhood education program is received in a home-based setting (i.e. via distance education programs such as school of the air or e-Kindy), then the location of the service provider delivering the program should be used as the basis for the address, rather than the home-based setting.


Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2018Early Childhood, Superseded 02/12/2020

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2018

DSS specific information:

This item should be collected twice: once for the child and once for the early childhood education and care service.

Child

Should be reported for the usual residence of the child’s parent or guardian. Do not report the suburb/town/locality name based on a post office box or other non-residential address of the child’s parent or guardian.

Early childhood education and care service

Should be reported for the physical location at which the early childhood education program is delivered. If the early childhood education program is received in a home-based setting (i.e. via distance education programs such as school of the air or e-Kindy), then the location of the service provider delivering the program should be used as the basis for the address, rather than the home-based setting.


Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2019Early Childhood, Superseded 02/12/2020

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2019

DSS specific information:

This item should be collected twice: once for the child and once for the early childhood education and care service.

Child

Should be reported for the usual residence of the child’s parent or guardian. Do not report the suburb/town/locality name based on a post office box or other non-residential address of the child’s parent or guardian.

Early childhood education and care service

Should be reported for the physical location at which the early childhood education program is delivered. If the early childhood education program is received in a home-based setting (i.e. via distance education programs such as school of the air or e-Kindy), then the location of the service provider delivering the program should be used as the basis for the address, rather than the home-based setting.


Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2020Early Childhood, Superseded 25/10/2021

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2020

DSS specific information:

This item should be collected twice: once for the child and once for the early childhood education and care service.

Child

Should be reported for the usual residence of the child’s parent or guardian. Do not report the suburb/town/locality name based on a post office box or other non-residential address of the child’s parent or guardian.

Early childhood education and care service

Should be reported for the physical location at which the early childhood education program is delivered. If the early childhood education program is received in a home-based setting (i.e. via distance education programs such as school of the air or e-Kindy), then the location of the service provider delivering the program should be used as the basis for the address, rather than the home-based setting.


Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2021Early Childhood, Standard 25/10/2021

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2021

DSS specific information:

This item should be collected twice: once for the child and once for the early childhood education and care service.

Child

Should be reported for the usual residence of the child’s parent or guardian. Do not report the suburb/town/locality name based on a post office box or other non-residential address of the child’s parent or guardian.

Early childhood education and care service

Should be reported for the physical location at which the early childhood education program is delivered. If the early childhood education program is received in a home-based setting (i.e. via distance education programs such as school of the air or e-Kindy), then the location of the service provider delivering the program should be used as the basis for the address, rather than the home-based setting.


Home purchase assistance DSS 2011-12Housing assistance, Superseded 03/07/2014

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2011

Implementation end date: 30/06/2012

DSS specific information:

This item is used to collect the suburb in which the dwelling is located. The field for suburb name may be truncated to 15 characters in this collection.

Home purchase assistance DSS 2012-13Housing assistance, Superseded 30/08/2017

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2012

Implementation end date: 30/06/2013

DSS specific information:

This item is used to collect the suburb in which the dwelling is located. The field for suburb name may be truncated to 15 characters in this collection.

Home purchase assistance DSS 2013-Housing assistance, Standard 30/08/2017

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2013

DSS specific information:

This item is used to collect the suburb in which the dwelling is located. The field for suburb name may be truncated to 15 characters in this collection.


Indigenous Community Housing DSS 2018-Housing assistance, Standard 10/05/2019

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2018

DSS specific information:

This metadata item is collected twice, once for the Indigenous community housing provider's address (in the organisation file) and once for the dwelling address (in the dwelling file).


Indigenous community housing dwelling address details clusterHousing assistance, Superseded 30/08/2017
Indigenous, Standard 01/05/2013

Indigenous community housing dwelling address details clusterHousing assistance, Standard 30/08/2017

Indigenous primary health care DSS 2015-17Health, Superseded 25/01/2018
Indigenous, Superseded 27/02/2018

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2015

Implementation end date: 30/06/2017


Indigenous primary health care NBEDS 2017–18Health, Superseded 06/09/2018
Indigenous, Superseded 22/10/2018

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2017

Implementation end date: 30/06/2018


Indigenous primary health care NBEDS 2018–19Health, Superseded 12/12/2018
Indigenous, Superseded 02/04/2019

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2018

Implementation end date: 30/06/2019


Indigenous primary health care NBEDS 2019–20Health, Superseded 16/01/2020
Indigenous, Superseded 14/07/2021

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2019

Implementation end date: 30/06/2020


Indigenous primary health care NBEDS 2020–21Health, Retired 13/10/2021

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2020

Implementation end date: 30/06/2021

DSS specific information:

In the Indigenous primary health care NBEDS, this data element is reported twice, for:

  • the service's physical address
  • the service's postal address.

Indigenous-specific primary health care NBEDS December 2020Indigenous, Standard 14/07/2021

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2020

Implementation end date: 31/12/2020

DSS specific information:

In the ISPHC NBEDS, this data element is reported twice, for:

  • the organisation's physical address
  • the organisation's postal address.

Indigenous-specific primary health care NBEDS June 2021Indigenous, Standard 03/07/2022

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/01/2021

Implementation end date: 30/06/2021

DSS specific information:

In the ISPHC NBEDS, this data element is reported twice, for:

  • the organisation's physical address
  • the organisation's postal address.

Juvenile Justice Charge file clusterCommunity Services (retired), Not progressed 23/01/2018
Youth Justice, Qualified 29/06/2022

DSS specific attributes +

DSS specific information:

This item is collected for the suburb/town/locality name of the court in which the young person appeared when placed on the order relating to the charge. For police-referred detention, where the young person did not appear in court when being placed on the order, the court location should be reported as ‘Not applicable’.

Suburb/Town/Locality should be sourced from the Australia Post Standard postcode file for the relevant year, available on the Australia Post website. 


Juvenile Justice Detention file clusterCommunity Services (retired), Not progressed 23/01/2018
Youth Justice, Qualified 29/06/2022

DSS specific attributes +

DSS specific information:

This item is collected for the young person’s last known home address before entering youth justice detention.

A Suburb/Town/Locality may be a town, city, suburb or commonly used location name such as a large agricultural property or Aboriginal community. The name should be spelt correctly and consistently and should not be a youth justice detention facility.

Enter ‘Unknown’ where the locality name or geographic area is not known.

Enter ‘No fixed address’ where the young person has no fixed address or is homeless.

Suburb/Town/Locality should be sourced from the Australia Post Standard postcode file for the relevant year, available on the Australia Post website. 


Juvenile Justice Offence file clusterCommunity Services (retired), Not progressed 23/01/2018
Youth Justice, Qualified 29/06/2022

DSS specific attributes +

DSS specific information:

This item is collected for the court in which the young person appeared when placed on the order relating to the offence.

Suburb/Town/Locality should be sourced from the Australia Post Standard postcode file for the relevant year, available on the Australia Post website. 


Juvenile Justice Order file clusterCommunity Services (retired), Standard 14/09/2009

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 24/09/2009


Juvenile Justice Order file clusterCommunity Services (retired), Not progressed 23/01/2018
Youth Justice, Recorded 23/05/2022

DSS specific attributes +

DSS specific information:

This item is collected for the young person’s last known home address before entering youth justice supervision.

Guide for Use

A Suburb/Town/Locality may be a town, city, suburb or commonly used location name such as a large agricultural property or Aboriginal community. The name should be spelt correctly and consistently and should not be a youth justice detention facility.

Enter ‘UNKNOWN’ where the locality name or geographic area is not known.

Enter ‘NO FIXED ADDRESS’ where the young person has no fixed address or is homeless.


Juvenile Justice Order file clusterYouth Justice, Qualified 29/06/2022

DSS specific attributes +

DSS specific information:

This item is collected for the young person’s last known home address before entering youth justice supervision.

Guide for Use

Use the Australian Post postcode file.

Leave the field blank if:

  • the last known home address is unknown
  • the last known home address is outside Australia
  • the young person had no fixed address.

Living arrangements for children under care (LA) file clusterChildren and Families, Standard 22/11/2016
Community Services (retired), Candidate 10/10/2014

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2011

Implementation end date: 30/06/2013

DSS specific information:

The suburb/town/locality name of the child's living arrangement.


Living arrangements for children under care (LA) file clusterChildren and Families, Superseded 22/11/2016

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2013

Implementation end date: 30/06/2015

DSS specific information:

The suburb/town/locality name of the child's living arrangement.

For children residing outside Australia record ‘Overseas’.


Living arrangements for children under care (LA) file clusterChildren and Families, Superseded 22/11/2016

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2012

Implementation end date: 30/06/2014

DSS specific information:

The suburb/town/locality name of the child's living arrangement.

For children residing outside Australia record ‘Overseas’.


Living arrangements for children under care (LA) file clusterChildren and Families, Superseded 20/04/2018

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2014

Implementation end date: 30/06/2016

DSS specific information:

The suburb/town/locality name of the child's living arrangement.

For children residing outside Australia record ‘Overseas’.


Living arrangements for children under care (LA) file clusterChildren and Families, Superseded 20/01/2021

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2015

Implementation end date: 30/06/2017

DSS specific information:

The suburb/town/locality name of the child's living arrangement.

For children residing outside Australia record ‘Overseas’.


Living arrangements for children under care (LA) file clusterChildren and Families, Superseded 20/01/2021

DSS specific attributes +

DSS specific information:

The suburb/town/locality name of the child's living arrangement.

For children residing outside Australia record ‘Overseas’.


Living arrangements for children under care (LA) file clusterChildren and Families, Standard 03/11/2021

DSS specific attributes +

DSS specific information:

The suburb/town/locality name of the child's living arrangement.

For children residing outside Australia record ‘Overseas’.


Living arrangements for children under care (LA) file clusterChildren and Families, Superseded 03/11/2021

DSS specific attributes +

DSS specific information:

The suburb/town/locality name of the child's living arrangement.

For children residing outside Australia record ‘Overseas’.


Notifications, investigations, and substantiations (NIS) file clusterChildren and Families, Superseded 22/11/2016
Community Services (retired), Candidate 09/10/2014

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2011

Implementation end date: 30/06/2013

DSS specific information:

Any valid suburb, town or locality name of the child's usual place of residence at the time of notification. May be 'No fixed abode' or 'Not known'.


Notifications, investigations, and substantiations (NIS) file clusterChildren and Families, Superseded 22/11/2016

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2012

Implementation end date: 30/06/2014

DSS specific information:

Any valid suburb, town or locality name of the child's usual place of residence at the time of notification. May be 'No fixed abode' or 'Not known'.

For children residing outside Australia record ‘Overseas’.


Notifications, investigations, and substantiations (NIS) file clusterChildren and Families, Superseded 22/11/2016

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2013

Implementation end date: 30/06/2015

DSS specific information:

Any valid suburb, town or locality name of the child's usual place of residence at the time of notification. May be 'No fixed abode' or 'Not known'.

For children residing outside Australia record ‘Overseas’.


Notifications, investigations, and substantiations (NIS) file clusterChildren and Families, Superseded 20/04/2018

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2014

Implementation end date: 30/06/2016

DSS specific information:

Any valid suburb, town or locality name of the child's usual place of residence at the time of notification. May be 'No fixed abode' or 'Not known'.

For children residing outside Australia record ‘Overseas’.


Notifications, investigations, and substantiations (NIS) file clusterChildren and Families, Superseded 20/01/2021

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2015

Implementation end date: 30/06/2017

DSS specific information:

Any valid suburb, town or locality name of the child's usual place of residence at the time of notification. May be 'No fixed abode' or 'Not known'.

For children residing outside Australia record ‘Overseas’.


Notifications, investigations, and substantiations (NIS) file clusterChildren and Families, Standard 03/11/2021

DSS specific attributes +

DSS specific information:

Any valid suburb, town or locality name of the child's usual place of residence at the time of notification. May be 'No fixed abode' or 'Not known'.

For children residing outside Australia record ‘Overseas’.


Notifications, investigations, and substantiations (NIS) file clusterChildren and Families, Superseded 03/11/2021

DSS specific attributes +

DSS specific information:

Any valid suburb, town or locality name of the child's usual place of residence at the time of notification. May be 'No fixed abode' or 'Not known'.

For children residing outside Australia record ‘Overseas’.


Person geographic data elements (TDLU) clusterTasmanian Health, Standard 18/05/2021

Private rent assistance DSS 2011-12Housing assistance, Superseded 26/08/2014

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2011

Implementation end date: 30/06/2012

DSS specific information:

This item is used to collect the suburb or locality in which the dwelling is located. This field may be truncated to 15 characters by this collection.

Private rent assistance DSS 2012-13Housing assistance, Superseded 30/08/2017

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2012

Implementation end date: 30/06/2013

DSS specific information:

This item is used to collect the suburb or locality in which the dwelling is located. This field may be truncated to 15 characters by this collection.

Private rent assistance DSS 2013-Housing assistance, Standard 30/08/2017

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2013

DSS specific information:

This item is used to collect the suburb or locality in which the dwelling is located. This field may be truncated to 15 characters by this collection.


Provider place of practice clusterHealth, Standard 05/10/2016

Public hospital establishment address details DSSHealth, Superseded 04/08/2016

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation end date: 30/06/2016


Public Housing and State Owned and Managed Indigenous housing (PH & SOMIH) DSS 2018-Housing assistance, Standard 10/05/2019

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2018

DSS specific information:

This metadata item is used to collect the dwelling suburb.


Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) (2016 Census, ASGS 2016) cluster Early Childhood, Standard 24/07/2018
Health, Standard 06/09/2018

Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2013-14Homelessness, 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 item is only asked of clients.

DSS specific information:

In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is reported twice, for:

  • where the person lived one week before the first service contact (the Service episode—episode start date, DDMMYYYY)
  • where the person lived the last time they had a permanent place to live.

Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2014-15Homelessness, 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 item is only asked of clients.

DSS specific information:

In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is reported twice, for:

  • where the person lived one week before the first service contact (the Service episode—episode start date, DDMMYYYY)
  • where the person lived the last time they had a permanent place to live.

Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2015-17Homelessness, 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 item is only asked of clients.

DSS specific information:

In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is reported twice, for:

  • where the person lived one week before the first service contact (the Service episode—episode start date, DDMMYYYY)
  • where the person lived the last time they had a permanent place to live.

Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2017-19Homelessness, 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 item is only asked of clients.

DSS specific information:

In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is reported twice, for:

  • where the person lived one week before the first service contact (the Service episode—episode start date, DDMMYYYY)
  • where the person lived the last time they had a permanent place to live.

Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2019-Homelessness, Standard 10/08/2018

DSS specific attributes +

Conditional obligation:

In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this item is only asked of clients.

DSS specific information:

In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is reported twice, for:

  • where the person lived one week before the first service contact (the Service episode—episode start date, DDMMYYYY)
  • where the person lived the last time they had a permanent place to live.

Surveillance of healthcare associated infection: Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia NBPDSHealth, Standard 15/11/2012

Surveillance of healthcare associated infection: Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection NBPDSHealth, Qualified 18/07/2022

Tasmanian Demographics Data Set - 2016Tasmanian Health, Superseded 05/07/2017

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2016

Implementation end date: 30/06/2017


Tasmanian Demographics Data Set - 2017Tasmanian Health, Superseded 10/01/2018

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2017

Implementation end date: 30/06/2018


Tasmanian Demographics Data Set - 2018Tasmanian Health, Superseded 05/04/2019

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2018

Implementation end date: 30/06/2019


Tasmanian Demographics Data Set - 2019Tasmanian Health, Superseded 17/06/2020

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2019

Implementation end date: 30/06/2020


Tasmanian Demographics Data Set - 2020Tasmanian Health, Standard 15/06/2020

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2020

Implementation end date: 30/06/2021


Youth Justice Charge file clusterYouth Justice, Standard 15/02/2022

DSS specific attributes +

DSS specific information:

This item is collected for the suburb/town/locality name of the court in which the young person appeared when placed on the order relating to the charge. For police-referred detention, where the young person did not appear in court when being placed on the order, the court location should be reported as ‘Not applicable’.

Suburb and postcode information

From July 2020, an all-inclusive list of postcodes and suburbs will be used to check postcodes in the YJ NMDS. This list consists of unique postcodes and suburbs across all current and historical versions of postcode data purchased by the AIHW.

For the most current list of valid postcodes and suburbs, go to http://www.postconnect.com.au/postcode-data.


Youth Justice Charge file clusterYouth Justice, Qualified 29/06/2022

DSS specific attributes +

DSS specific information:

This item is collected for the suburb/town/locality name of the court in which the young person appeared when placed on the order relating to the charge. For police-referred detention, where the young person did not appear in court when being placed on the order, the court location should be reported as ‘Not applicable’.

Suburb/Town/Locality should be sourced from the Australia Post Standard postcode file for the relevant year, available on the Australia Post website. 


Youth Justice Detention file clusterYouth Justice, Standard 15/02/2022

DSS specific attributes +

DSS specific information:

This item is collected for the young person’s last known home address before entering youth justice detention.

A Suburb/Town/Locality may be a town, city, suburb or commonly used location name such as a large agricultural property or Aboriginal community. The name should be spelt correctly and consistently and should not be a youth justice detention facility.

Enter ‘Unknown’ where the locality name or geographic area is not known.

Enter ‘No fixed address’ where the young person has no fixed address or is homeless.

Suburb and postcode information

From July 2020, an all-inclusive list of postcodes and suburbs will be used to check postcodes in the YJ NMDS. This list consists of unique postcodes and suburbs across all current and historical versions of postcode data purchased by the AIHW.

For the most current list of valid postcodes and suburbs, go to http://www.postconnect.com.au/postcode-data.


Youth Justice Detention file clusterYouth Justice, Qualified 29/06/2022

DSS specific attributes +

DSS specific information:

This item is collected for the young person’s last known home address before entering youth justice detention.

A Suburb/Town/Locality may be a town, city, suburb or commonly used location name such as a large agricultural property or Aboriginal community. The name should be spelt correctly and consistently and should not be a youth justice detention facility.

Enter ‘Unknown’ where the locality name or geographic area is not known.

Enter ‘No fixed address’ where the young person has no fixed address or is homeless.

Suburb/Town/Locality should be sourced from the Australia Post Standard postcode file for the relevant year, available on the Australia Post website. 


Youth Justice Offence file clusterYouth Justice, Standard 15/02/2022

DSS specific attributes +

DSS specific information:

This item is collected for the court in which the young person appeared when placed on the order relating to the offence.

Suburb and postcode information

From July 2020, an all-inclusive list of postcodes and suburbs will be used to check postcodes in the YJ NMDS. This list consists of unique postcodes and suburbs across all current and historical versions of postcode data purchased by the AIHW.

For the most current list of valid postcodes and suburbs, go to http://www.postconnect.com.au/postcode-data.


Youth Justice Offence file clusterYouth Justice, Qualified 29/06/2022

DSS specific attributes +

DSS specific information:

This item is collected for the court in which the young person appeared when placed on the order relating to the offence.

Suburb/Town/Locality should be sourced from the Australia Post Standard postcode file for the relevant year, available on the Australia Post website. 


Youth Justice Order file clusterYouth Justice, Standard 15/02/2022

DSS specific attributes +

DSS specific information:

This item is collected for the young person’s last known home address before entering youth justice supervision.

Guide for Use

A Suburb/Town/Locality may be a town, city, suburb or commonly used location name such as a large agricultural property or Aboriginal community. The name should be spelt correctly and consistently and should not be a youth justice detention facility.

Enter ‘UNKNOWN’ where the locality name or geographic area is not known.

Enter ‘NO FIXED ADDRESS’ where the young person has no fixed address or is homeless.

Suburb and postcode information

From July 2020, an all-inclusive list of postcodes and suburbs will be used to check postcodes in the YJ NMDS. This list consists of unique postcodes and suburbs across all current and historical versions of postcode data purchased by the AIHW.

For the most current list of valid postcodes and suburbs, go to http://www.postconnect.com.au/postcode-data.


Youth Justice Order file clusterYouth Justice, Qualified 29/06/2022

DSS specific attributes +

DSS specific information:

This item is collected for the young person’s last known home address before entering youth justice supervision.

Guide for Use

A Suburb/Town/Locality may be a town, city, suburb or commonly used location name such as a large agricultural property or Aboriginal community. The name should be spelt correctly and consistently and should not be a youth justice detention facility.

Enter ‘UNKNOWN’ where the locality name or geographic area is not known.

Enter ‘NO FIXED ADDRESS’ where the young person has no fixed address or is homeless.

Suburb/Town/Locality should be sourced from the Australia Post Standard postcode file for the relevant year, available on the Australia Post website. 


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