Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Progress measure |
Short name: | PI 33-Full time equivalent health workforce, 2013 |
METEOR identifier: | 496813 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 30/04/2014 |
Description: | Full time equivalent employed health practitioner rate (for the professions of medical practitioners, nurses/midwives and dental practitioners). |
Indicator set: | National Healthcare Agreement (2013) Health, Superseded 30/04/2014 |
Outcome area: | Sustainability Health, Standard 07/07/2010 |
Data quality statement: | National Healthcare Agreement: PI 33-Full time equivalent employed health practitioners per 1,000 population (by age group), 2013 QS Health, Superseded 14/01/2015 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | For this indicator, the workforce for each profession is defined as those employed in the profession. This excludes those who are registered in the profession but are retired, working outside the profession, on extended leave of 3 months or more or working outside Australia. Full time equivalent (FTE) number = Total hours worked by workforce ÷ Standard working week for selected professions. For the purpose of this indicator, a fulltime working week has been defined as 40 hours for medical practitioners and as 38 hours for dental practitioners and nurses and midwives. |
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Computation: | 1000 × (Numerator ÷ Denominator) |
Numerator: | Full-time equivalent (FTE) number in the workforce in the reference year |
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Denominator: | Australian population in the reference year |
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Disaggregation: | 2010 (medical practitioner only) and 2011 - state and territory by profession, by age group. |
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Comments: | Most recent data available for the 2013 Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Reform Council (CRC) report: 2011. Full time equivalent (FTE) employed health practitioner rates calculated from the National Health Workforce Data Set will be available on a national basis for 2011 and subsequent years. For medical practitioners, nurses and midwives and dental practitioners, 10-year age groups will be needed to support the disaggregation by state and territory. Age groups are: under 25, 25-34, 35-44, 45-54, 55-64 and 65 or over. Status of the calculation of fulltime equivalent employed health practitioner rate for professions is:
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Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Rate |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Person |
Format: | N[N].N |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
Framework and dimensions: | Efficiency & Sustainability |
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Accountability attributes | |
Reporting requirements: | National Healthcare Agreement |
Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Further data development / collection required: | Specification: Minor work required, the measure needs minor work to meet the intention of the indicator. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: PI 65-Net growth in health workforce, 2012 Health, Superseded 25/06/2013 Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 33-Full time equivalent employed health practitioners per 1,000 population (by age group), 2014 Health, Superseded 14/01/2015 See also National Healthcare Agreement: PI 12-Waiting times for GPs, 2013 Health, Superseded 30/04/2014 |