Person—adoptive parent marital status, code N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Adoptive parent marital status |
| METEOR identifier: | 471018 |
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| Definition: | The relationship status of an adoptive parent at the time of placement of the child, as represented by a code. |
| Data Element Concept: | Person—marital status |
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| Representation class: | Code | ||||||||||||
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| Data type: | Number | ||||||||||||
| Format: | N | ||||||||||||
| Maximum character length: | 1 | ||||||||||||
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Collection and usage attributes | |||||||||||||
| Guide for use: | Refers to the current marital status of a person. CODE 2 Widowed This code usually refers to registered marriages but when self-reported may also refer to de facto marriages. CODE 4 Separated This code refers to registered marriages but when self-reported may also refer to de facto marriages. CODE 5 Married (registered and de facto) Includes people who have been divorced or widowed but have since re-married, and should be generally accepted as applicable to all de facto couples, including of the same sex. CODE 6 Not stated/inadequately described This code is not for use on primary collection forms. It is primarily for use in administrative collections when transferring data from data sets where the item has not been collected. | ||||||||||||
Source and reference attributes | |||||||||||||
| Origin: | The ABS standards for the collection of Social and Registered marital status appear on the ABS Website. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Family, household and income unit variables. Cat. no. 1286.0. Canberra: ABS. | ||||||||||||
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Collection and usage attributes | |||||||||||||
| Guide for use: | Marital status should be counted at the time of the placement of the child with the adopted family. | ||||||||||||
Relational attributes | |||||||||||||
| Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Adoptive family—adoptive parent marital status, code N
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| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Community Services (retired), Standard 20/05/2013 Community Services (retired), Recorded 20/03/2014 | ||||||||||||