Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Value Domain |
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METEOR identifier: | 454515 |
Registration status: | Community Services (retired), Standard 06/02/2012 Disability, Standard 13/08/2015 |
Definition: | A code set representing the International Standards Organisation codes for countries (ISO 3166: Part 1). |
Representational attributes | ||
Representation class: | Identifier | |
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Data type: | String | |
Format: | AA | |
Maximum character length: | 2 |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Relational attributes | |
Data elements implementing this value domain: | Address—country identifier, country code (ISO 3166) AA Community Services (retired), Standard 06/02/2012 Disability, Standard 13/08/2015 |
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Classification scheme attributes | |
Classification scheme: | International Standards Organisation codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions, Part 1: Country codes (ISO 3166, 2006) |
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METEOR identifier: | 454505 |
Definition: | The International Standard for country codes, Part one. |
Registration status: | Community Services (retired), Standard 06/02/2012 Disability, Standard 13/08/2015 |
Classification structure: | The purpose of ISO 3166 is to establish codes for the representation of names of countries, territories or areas of geographical interest, and their subdivisions. Part 1: Country codes First published in 1974, it has since then become one of the world's most widely used standard solution for coding country names. It contains a two-letter code which is recommended as the general purpose code, a three-letter code which has better mnemonic properties and a numeric-3 code which can be useful if script independence of the codes is important. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Reference documents: | Maintenance Agency for International Standards Organisation (ISO) 3166 Country Codes 2006. International Standard for Country Codes. Geneva: ISO. Viewed 11 July 2011, http://www.iso.org/iso/ english_country_names_and_code_elements |