Organisation—organisation name, text X[X(199)]

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element
Short name:	Organisation name
Synonymous names:	Business name; Entity name
METEOR identifier:	453823
Registration status:	Community Services (retired), Standard 06/02/2012 Disability, Standard 13/08/2015 Early Childhood, Standard 09/03/2012 Health, Standard 08/05/2014 Indigenous, Standard 13/03/2015 Youth Justice, Standard 15/02/2022
Definition:	The full title of an organisation's name by which it trades or is recognised, as represented by text.
Data Element Concept:	Organisation—organisation name
Value Domain:	Text X[X(199)]

Value domain attributes
Representational attributes
Representation class:	Text
Data type:	String
Format:	X[X(199)]
Maximum character length:	200

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

Data element attributes
Collection and usage attributes
Guide for use:	An organisation may have multiple names. Naming standards for incorporated companies are defined in the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), Schedule 6 of the Corporation Regulations.
Collection methods:	If special characters or symbols form part of the name they should be included. This includes all characters from the standard printable ASCII character set such as the letters A-Z, hyphens, commas, apostrophes, @, # etc., as well as the non-standard or extended ASCII characters such as ü, á, é, ®, ™etc. Mixed case should be used rather than upper case only.
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Origin:	Standards Australia 2006. AS 4590—2006 Interchange of client information. Sydney: Standards Australia.
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	Supersedes Service provider organisation (name)—organisation name, text X[X(199)] Community Services (retired), Superseded 06/02/2012 Early Childhood, Superseded 09/03/2012 Health, Superseded 08/05/2014 Indigenous, Superseded 13/03/2015
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: All attributes +	Early Childhood Education and Care: Aggregate NMDS 2012 Early Childhood, Superseded 08/04/2013 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2012 DSS specific information: This item should be used to report the operating or trading name of the early childhood education and care service which delivers a preschool program to children. The registered business name should not be used if it is different from the name of early childhood education and care service that it manages or owns. A campus name or satellite school name (e.g. where the service provider organisation operates preschool programs at multiple geographical locations using the same service provider name) may also be used. Each service provider must have a discrete service provider organisation name to allow identification of each individual location for provision of a preschool program. The organisation name type data item is not required. Early Childhood Education and Care: Aggregate NMDS 2013 Early Childhood, Superseded 28/05/2014 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2013 DSS specific information: This item should be used to report the operating or trading name of the early childhood education and care service which delivers a preschool program to children. The registered business name should not be used if it is different from the name of early childhood education and care service that it manages or owns. A campus name or satellite school name (e.g. where the service provider organisation operates preschool programs at multiple geographical locations using the same service provider name) may also be used. Each service provider must have a discrete service provider organisation name to allow identification of each individual location for provision of a preschool program. The organisation name type data item is not required. Early Childhood Education and Care: Aggregate NMDS 2014 Early Childhood, Superseded 01/06/2015 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2014 DSS specific information: This item should be used to report the operating or trading name of the early childhood education and care service which delivers an early childhood education program to children. The registered business name should not be used if it is different from the name of the early childhood education and care service that it manages or owns. A campus name or satellite school name (e.g. where the service provider organisation operates early childhood education programs at multiple geographical locations using the same service provider name) may also be used. Each service provider must have a discrete service provider organisation name to allow identification of each individual location for provision of an early childhood education program. The organisation name type data item is not required. Early Childhood Education and Care: Aggregate NMDS 2015 Early Childhood, Superseded 24/07/2018 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2015 DSS specific information: This item should be used to report the operating or trading name of the early childhood education and care service which delivers an early childhood education program to children. The registered business name should not be used if it is different from the name of the early childhood education and care service that it manages or owns. A campus name or satellite school name (e.g. where the service provider organisation operates early childhood education programs at multiple geographical locations using the same service provider name) may also be used. Each service provider must have a discrete service provider organisation name to allow identification of each individual location for provision of an early childhood education program. The organisation name type data item is not required. Early Childhood Education and Care: Aggregate NMDS 2016 Early 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 used to report the operating or trading name of the early childhood education and care service which delivers an early childhood education program to children. The registered business name should not be used if it is different from the name of the early childhood education and care service that it manages or owns. A campus name or satellite school name (e.g. where the service provider organisation operates early childhood education programs at multiple geographical locations using the same service provider name) may also be used. Each service provider must have a discrete service provider organisation name to allow identification of each individual location for provision of an early childhood education program. The organisation name type data item is not required. Early Childhood Education and Care: Aggregate NMDS 2017 Early Childhood, Superseded 24/07/2018 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2017 Implementation end date: 01/06/2018 DSS specific information: This item should be used to report the operating or trading name of the early childhood education and care service which delivers an early childhood education program to children. The registered business name should not be used if it is different from the name of the early childhood education and care service that it manages or owns. A campus name or satellite school name (e.g. where the service provider organisation operates early childhood education programs at multiple geographical locations using the same service provider name) may also be used. Each service provider must have a discrete service provider organisation name to allow identification of each individual location for provision of an early childhood education program. The organisation name type data item is not required. Early Childhood Education and Care: Aggregate NMDS 2018 Early Childhood, Standard 24/07/2018 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2018 DSS specific information: This item should be used to report the operating or trading name of the early childhood education and care service which delivers an early childhood education program to children. The registered business name should not be used if it is different from the name of the early childhood education and care service that it manages or owns. A campus name or satellite school name (e.g. where the service provider organisation operates early childhood education programs at multiple geographical locations using the same service provider name) may also be used. Each service provider must have a discrete service provider organisation name to allow identification of each individual location for provision of an early childhood education program. The organisation name type data item is not required. Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2012 Early Childhood, Superseded 08/04/2013 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2012 DSS specific information: This item should be used to report the operating or trading name of the early childhood education and care service which delivers a preschool program to children. The registered business name should not be used if it is different from the name of early childhood education and care service that it manages or owns. A campus name or satellite school name (e.g. where the service provider organisation operates preschool programs at multiple geographical locations using the same service provider name) may also be used. Each service provider must have a discrete service provider organisation name to allow identification of each individual location for provision of a preschool program. The organisation name type data item is not required. Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2013 Early Childhood, Superseded 28/05/2014 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2013 DSS specific information: This item should be used to report the operating or trading name of the early childhood education and care service which delivers a preschool program to children. The registered business name should not be used if it is different from the name of early childhood education and care service that it manages or owns. A campus name or satellite school name (e.g. where the service provider organisation operates preschool programs at multiple geographical locations using the same service provider name) may also be used. Each service provider must have a discrete service provider organisation name to allow identification of each individual location for provision of a preschool program. The organisation name type data item is not required. Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2014 Early Childhood, Superseded 01/06/2015 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2014 DSS specific information: This item should be used to report the operating or trading name of the early childhood education and care service which delivers an early childhood education program to children. The registered business name should not be used if it is different from the name of the early childhood education and care service that it manages or owns. A campus name or satellite school name (e.g. where the service provider organisation operates early childhood education programs at multiple geographical locations using the same service provider name) may also be used. Each service provider must have a discrete service provider organisation name to allow identification of each individual location for provision of an early childhood education program. The organisation name type data item is not required. Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2015 Early Childhood, Superseded 24/07/2018 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2015 DSS specific information: This item should be used to report the operating or trading name of the early childhood education and care service which delivers an early childhood education program to children. The registered business name should not be used if it is different from the name of the early childhood education and care service that it manages or owns. A campus name or satellite school name (e.g. where the service provider organisation operates early childhood education programs at multiple geographical locations using the same service provider name) may also be used. Each service provider must have a discrete service provider organisation name to allow identification of each individual location for provision of an early childhood education program. The organisation name type data item is not required. Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2016 Early 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 used to report the operating or trading name of the early childhood education and care service which delivers an early childhood education program to children. The registered business name should not be used if it is different from the name of the early childhood education and care service that it manages or owns. A campus name or satellite school name (e.g. where the service provider organisation operates early childhood education programs at multiple geographical locations using the same service provider name) may also be used. Each service provider must have a discrete service provider organisation name to allow identification of each individual location for provision of an early childhood education program. The organisation name type data item is not required. Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2017 Early 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 used to report the operating or trading name of the early childhood education and care service which delivers an early childhood education program to children. The registered business name should not be used if it is different from the name of the early childhood education and care service that it manages or owns. A campus name or satellite school name (e.g. where the service provider organisation operates early childhood education programs at multiple geographical locations using the same service provider name) may also be used. Each service provider must have a discrete service provider organisation name to allow identification of each individual location for provision of an early childhood education program. The organisation name type data item is not required. Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2018 Early Childhood, Superseded 02/12/2020 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2018 DSS specific information: This item should be used to report the operating or trading name of the early childhood education and care service which delivers an early childhood education program to children. The registered business name should not be used if it is different from the name of the early childhood education and care service that it manages or owns. A campus name or satellite school name (e.g. where the service provider organisation operates early childhood education programs at multiple geographical locations using the same service provider name) may also be used. Each service provider must have a discrete service provider organisation name to allow identification of each individual location for provision of an early childhood education program. The organisation name type data item is not required. Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2019 Early Childhood, Superseded 02/12/2020 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2019 DSS specific information: This item should be used to report the operating or trading name of the early childhood education and care service which delivers an early childhood education program to children. The registered business name should not be used if it is different from the name of the early childhood education and care service that it manages or owns. A campus name or satellite school name (e.g. where the service provider organisation operates early childhood education programs at multiple geographical locations using the same service provider name) may also be used. Each service provider must have a discrete service provider organisation name to allow identification of each individual location for provision of an early childhood education program. The organisation name type data item is not required. Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2020 Early Childhood, Superseded 25/10/2021 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2020 DSS specific information: This item should be used to report the operating or trading name of the early childhood education and care service which delivers an early childhood education program to children. The registered business name should not be used if it is different from the name of the early childhood education and care service that it manages or owns. A campus name or satellite school name (e.g. where the service provider organisation operates early childhood education programs at multiple geographical locations using the same service provider name) may also be used. Each service provider must have a discrete service provider organisation name to allow identification of each individual location for provision of an early childhood education program. The organisation name type data item is not required. Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2021 Early Childhood, Superseded 05/07/2022 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2021 DSS specific information: This item should be used to report the operating or trading name of the early childhood education and care service which delivers an early childhood education program to children. The registered business name should not be used if it is different from the name of the early childhood education and care service that it manages or owns. A campus name or satellite school name (e.g. where the service provider organisation operates early childhood education programs at multiple geographical locations using the same service provider name) may also be used. Each service provider must have a discrete service provider organisation name to allow identification of each individual location for provision of an early childhood education program. The organisation name type data item is not required. Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2022 Early Childhood, Superseded 15/08/2023 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2022 DSS specific information: This item should be used to report the operating or trading name of the early childhood education and care service which delivers an early childhood education program to children. The registered business name should not be used if it is different from the name of the early childhood education and care service that it manages or owns. A campus name or satellite school name (e.g. where the service provider organisation operates early childhood education programs at multiple geographical locations using the same service provider name) may also be used. Each service provider must have a discrete service provider organisation name to allow identification of each individual location for provision of an early childhood education program. The organisation name type data item is not required. Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2023 Early Childhood, Standard 15/08/2023 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2023 DSS specific information: This item should be used to report the operating or trading name of the early childhood education and care service which delivers an early childhood education program to children. The registered business name should not be used if it is different from the name of the early childhood education and care service that it manages or owns. A campus name or satellite school name (e.g., where the service provider organisation operates early childhood education programs at multiple geographical locations using the same service provider name) may also be used. Each service provider must have a discrete service provider organisation name to allow identification of each individual location for provision of an early childhood education program. The organisation name type data item is not required. Gynaecological cancer (clinical) DSS Health, Superseded 14/05/2015 DSS specific attributes + Conditional obligation: This data element is to be recorded when the data element Person—tissue sample collected indicator, yes/no code N indicates that a tissue sample has been collected. DSS specific information: Use this data element to record the name of the laboratory or biobank in which a tissue sample is stored. Collect this data element in conjunction with Person—tissue sample collected indicator, yes/no code N. Gynaecological cancer (clinical) NBPDS Health, Standard 14/05/2015 DSS specific attributes + Conditional obligation: This data element is to be recorded when the data element Person—tissue sample collected indicator, yes/no code N indicates that a tissue sample has been collected. DSS specific information: Use this data element to record the name of the laboratory or biobank in which a tissue sample is stored. Collect this data element in conjunction with Person—tissue sample collected indicator, yes/no code N. Hand hygiene NBEDS 2012– Health, Qualified 23/03/2023 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/11/2012 Healthcare provider organisation cluster Health, Standard 05/10/2016 Indigenous primary health care DSS 2015-17 Health, 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 2017–18 Health, 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 2018–19 Health, 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 2019–20 Health, 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 2020–21 Health, Retired 13/10/2021 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2020 Implementation end date: 30/06/2021 Indigenous-specific primary health care NBEDS December 2020 Indigenous, Superseded 03/07/2022 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2020 Implementation end date: 31/12/2020 Indigenous-specific primary health care NBEDS December 2021 Indigenous, Superseded 12/06/2023 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2021 Implementation end date: 31/12/2021 Indigenous-specific primary health care NBEDS December 2022 Indigenous, Standard 27/08/2023 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2022 Implementation end date: 31/12/2022 Indigenous-specific primary health care NBEDS June 2021 Indigenous, Superseded 06/11/2022 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/01/2021 Implementation end date: 30/06/2021 Indigenous-specific primary health care NBEDS June 2022 Indigenous, Superseded 27/08/2023 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/01/2022 Implementation end date: 30/06/2022 Indigenous-specific primary health care NBEDS June 2023 Indigenous, Qualified 01/12/2023 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/01/2023 Implementation end date: 30/06/2023 Juvenile Justice Detention file cluster Youth Justice, Superseded 23/08/2022 DSS specific attributes + DSS specific information: This Data Element is used in the Detention file cluster to identify the name of the youth justice remand or detention centre where the young person is detained. If the detention end date of the current detention period is after the detention start date of the next detention period, the organisation name (youth justice remand or detention centre) of the current period and the next detention period must be the same. Juvenile Justice Detention file cluster Youth Justice, Superseded 24/03/2023 DSS specific attributes + DSS specific information: This Data Element is used in the Detention file cluster to identify the name of the youth justice remand or detention centre where the young person is detained. If the detention end date of the current detention period is after the detention start date of the next detention period, the organisation name (youth justice remand or detention centre) of the current period and the next detention period must be the same. Mental health organisation details cluster Health, Standard 13/11/2014 National elder abuse helpline DSS Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Recorded 26/10/2023 DSS specific attributes + DSS specific information: In the National elder abuse helpline DSS this data element should be recorded for each helpline contact, and should contain the official business name for the helpline service. Organisation details data dictionary Community Services (retired), Standard 06/02/2012 Disability, Standard 13/08/2015 Prison establishments NBEDS Health, Standard 28/04/2016 Prison establishments NBEDS 2018 Health, Recorded 22/12/2022 DSS specific attributes + DSS specific information: This data element corresponds to the following question of the Prison Establishment Form: 2. Correctional facility name. Prison establishments NBEDS 2022 Health, Recorded 24/04/2023 DSS specific attributes + DSS specific information: This data element corresponds to the following question of the Prison Establishment form: 2. Correctional facility name Youth Justice Detention file cluster Youth Justice, Standard 15/02/2022 DSS specific attributes + DSS specific information: This Data Element is used in the Detention file cluster to identify the name of the youth justice remand or detention centre where the young person is detained. If the detention end date of the current detention period is after the detention start date of the next detention period, the organisation name (youth justice remand or detention centre) of the current period and the next detention period must be the same. Youth Justice Detention file cluster Youth Justice, Superseded 23/08/2022 DSS specific attributes + DSS specific information: This Data Element is used in the Detention file cluster to identify the name of the youth justice remand or detention centre where the young person is detained. If the detention end date of the current detention period is after the detention start date of the next detention period, the organisation name (youth justice remand or detention centre) of the current period and the next detention period must be the same.