Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Full-time equivalent staff—mental health carer workers |
METEOR identifier: | 450762 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 16/01/2020 |
Definition: | The average number of full-time equivalent staff units paid for all mental health carer workers within an establishment. |
Data element concept attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Data element concept: | Establishment—full-time equivalent staff (paid) (mental health carer workers) |
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METEOR identifier: | 450769 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 16/01/2020 |
Definition: | The aggregate full-time equivalent staff units paid for all mental health carer workers within an establishment. |
Context: | Health expenditure: To assist in analyses of the resource use and activity of health services. Inclusion of these data, classified by staffing category, allows analysis of costs per unit of labour and analysis of staffing inputs against hospital or service unit outputs. |
Object class: | Establishment |
Property: | Full-time equivalent staff |
Value domain attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Value domain: | Average full-time equivalent staff NNNN.NN |
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METEOR identifier: | 426709 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 07/12/2011 |
Definition: | A numeric value representing the arithmetic mean of full-time equivalent units. |
Representational attributes | ||
Representation class: | Average | |
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Data type: | Number | |
Format: | NNNN.NN | |
Maximum character length: | 6 | |
Unit of measure: | Full-time equivalent (FTE) staff |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | Mental health carer workers are persons employed (or engaged via contract) on a part-time or full-time basis, i.e. the person received a salary or contract fee on a regular basis. It does not refer to arrangements where the carer worker only received reimbursements of expenses or occasional sitting fees for attendance at meetings. Mental health carer workers employed at the jurisdictional or regional level are considered in-scope and should be apportioned between all establishments, as deemed appropriate by the jurisdiction. The average is to be calculated from pay period figures. The length of the pay period is assumed to be a fortnight. Data on full-time equivalent staffing numbers by category should be consistent with data on salaries and wages by staffing category. If the full-time equivalent for contract staff is not collected then salaries for those contract staff should be included in other recurrent expenditure data items. Where staff provide services to more than one establishment, full-time equivalent staff figures should be apportioned between all establishments to which services are provided on the basis of hours paid for in each (salary costs should be apportioned on the same basis). |
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Comments: | This metadata item was amended during 1996-97. Until then, both average and end of year counts of full-time equivalent staff were included, and the end of year counts used as surrogates for the average counts if the latter were unavailable. The average count is more useful for accurate analysis of staffing inputs for establishment outputs and for assessments and comparisons of labour costs. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes Establishment—full-time equivalent staff (paid) (carer consultants), average N[NNN{.N}] Health, Superseded 07/02/2013 Has been superseded by Establishment—full-time equivalent staff (paid) (mental health carer workers), average NNNN.NN Health, Standard 16/01/2020 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Mental health establishments NMDS 2013-14 Health, Superseded 07/03/2014 Implementation start date: 01/07/2013 Implementation end date: 30/06/2014 Mental health establishments NMDS 2014-15 Health, Superseded 13/11/2014 Implementation start date: 01/07/2014 Implementation end date: 30/06/2015 Mental health establishments NMDS 2015-16 Health, Superseded 04/09/2015 Implementation start date: 01/07/2015 Implementation end date: 30/06/2016 Mental health establishments NMDS 2016-17 Health, Superseded 17/08/2017 Implementation start date: 01/07/2016 Implementation end date: 30/06/2017 Mental health establishments NMDS 2017–18 Health, Superseded 25/01/2018 Implementation start date: 01/07/2017 Implementation end date: 30/06/2018 Mental health establishments NMDS 2018–19 Health, Superseded 12/12/2018 Implementation start date: 01/07/2018 Implementation end date: 30/06/2019 Mental health establishments NMDS 2019–20 Health, Superseded 16/01/2020 Implementation start date: 01/07/2019 Implementation end date: 30/06/2020 |