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Person—activity and participation life area, disability code N

Data Element Attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Element
Short name:Help on this termActivity and participation type (Disability)
METEOR identifier:Help on this term492131
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Community Services (retired), Standard 13/03/2013 [Non DictionaryHelp on this term]
  • Disability, Superseded 29/02/2016
Definition:Help on this termThe life area in which a person participates or undertakes activities, as represented by a code.
Data Element Concept:Help on this termPerson—activity and participation life area

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Representation class:Help on this termCode
Data type:Help on this termNumber
Format:Help on this termN
Maximum character length:Help on this term1
Permissible values:Help on this term
ValueMeaning
1Self-care
2Mobility
3Communication
4Interpersonal interactions and relationships
5Learning and applying knowledge and general tasks and demands
6Education
7Community (civic) and economic life
8Domestic life
9Working

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:Help on this term

CODE 1     Self-care

This includes washing oneself, dressing, eating, and toileting.

CODE 2     Mobility

This includes moving around the home and/or moving around away from home (including using public transport or driving a motor vehicle), and getting in or out of bed or a chair.

CODE 3     Communication

This includes making oneself understood, in own native language or preferred method of communication if applicable, and understanding others.

CODE 4     Interpersonal interactions and relationships

This includes actions and behaviours that an individual does to make and keep friends and relationships, behaving within accepted limits, and coping with feelings and emotions.

CODE 5     Learning and applying knowledge and general tasks and demands

This includes understanding new ideas, remembering, problem solving, decision making, paying attention, undertaking single or multiple tasks, and carrying out daily routines.

CODE 6     Education

This includes the actions, behaviours and tasks an individual needs to perform at school, college, or in any educational setting.

CODE 7     Community (civic) and economic life

This includes recreation and leisure, religion and spirituality, human rights, political life and citizenship, and economic life, such as handling money.

CODE 8    Domestic life

This includes organising meals, cleaning, disposing of garbage, housekeeping, shopping, cooking, home maintenance, acquisition of necessities, household tasks, caring for household objects and assisting others.

CODE 9     Working

This includes actions, behaviours and tasks to obtain and retain paid employment.

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:Help on this termThis item uses components from the ICF Australian user guide on the Activity and Participation life areas (domains). The ICF Australian user guide is designed to be fully consistent with the ICF. The life areas domain list used here is not fully consistent as it combines ‘Learning and applying knowledge’ and ‘General tasks and demands’ and is therefore not directly mappable. In should be used in conjunction with a qualifier, which denotes a magnitude of the level of health (e.g. severity of the problem). The Activity and Participation life areas should be used with a generic qualifier which indicates the extent of difficulty such as 'Need for assistance with activities in a life area'.

Source and reference attributes

Reference documents:Help on this term

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 2003. ICF Australian User Guide. Version 1.0. Disability Series. AIHW Cat. No. DIS 33. Canberra: AIHW.

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Has been superseded by Person—activity and participation life area, disability code N
  • Disability, Standard 29/02/2016
  • Health, Standard 05/10/2022
Implementation in Data Set Specifications:Help on this term
All attributes +
Activity and participation need for assistance cluster
Community Services (retired), Standard 13/03/2013
Disability, Superseded 29/02/2016
DSS specific attributes +
DSS specific information: This disability specific 'Activity and Participation life areas' code list replaces the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) Australian user guide version in the NMDS. As this version is not directly compliant with the ICF, it does not have a superseding relationship to the ICF standard.

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