Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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| METEOR identifier: | 429892 |
| Registration status: | Aged Care, Standard 30/06/2023 Australian Teacher Workforce Data Oversight Board, Standard 30/08/2022 Children and Families, Standard 22/11/2016 Commonwealth Department of Health, Standard 14/10/2015 Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired), Standard 20/06/2018 Community Services (retired), Standard 06/02/2012 Disability, Standard 07/10/2014 Early Childhood, Standard 09/03/2012 Health, Standard 07/12/2011 Homelessness, Standard 02/05/2013 Housing assistance, Standard 02/05/2013 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 31/10/2012 Indigenous, Standard 13/03/2015 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 Tasmanian Health, Standard 01/09/2016 WA Health, Standard 06/03/2014 Youth Justice, Standard 15/02/2022 |
| Definition: | The Australian numeric descriptor for a postal delivery area for an address. |
Address—Australian postcode
Data Element Concept Attributes
Object Class attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Object class: | Address |
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| Definition: | A collection of information used for describing the location of an entity and/or details describing how the entity can be contacted. |
| Specialisation of: | Location |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Property attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Property: | Australian postcode |
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| Definition: | The numeric descriptor for a postal delivery area, aligned with locality, suburb or place. |
| Context: | Postcode is an important part of a postal address and facilitates written communication. It is one of a number of geographic identifiers that can be used to determine a geographic location. |
| Property group: | Location characteristics |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Data element concept attributes
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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| Origin: | Standards Australia 2006. AS 4590—2006 Interchange of client information. Sydney: Standards Australia. |