Person—reason for seeking assistance, homelessness code N[N]
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Reason for seeking assistance (homelessness) |
Synonymous names: | Presenting reason |
METEOR identifier: | 506234 |
Registration status: | Homelessness, Standard 24/11/2016 |
Definition: | The reason a person seeks assistance from a specialist homelessness agency, as represented by a code. |
Data Element Concept: | Person—reason for seeking assistance |
Value Domain: | Reasons for seeking assistance homelessness code N[N] |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | This data element is intended to focus on the reason(s) the person presented to the agency as opposed to the underlying reasons or causes that may have built up over a lifetime. There may be more than one reason why a person seeks assistance. This data element may be used to collect the main presenting reason or all presenting reasons. If this data element is used to collect both, the main reason should be collected second, that is after 'all' reasons have been ascertained. If a person does not nominate a list category record their response as 'Other' and record the description. This response is described by the data element: Person—reason for seeking assistance, text A[A(49)]. This data element is used where code 26 ‘Other’ is selected. |
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Collection methods: | The permissible values for this data element are used to form the response categories to the question(s): 'Which reason(s) listed, best describes why you are seeking assistance?' and 'Of the reasons you have identified as why you are seeking assistance, which one, do you consider, to be the main reason?' |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes Person—reason for seeking assistance, homelessness code N[N] Homelessness, Superseded 01/05/2013 Housing assistance, Superseded 01/05/2013 See also Person—reason for seeking assistance, text A[A(49)] Homelessness, Standard 01/05/2013 Housing assistance, Standard 01/05/2013 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2017-19 Homelessness, Superseded 10/08/2018 Implementation start date: 01/07/2017 Implementation end date: 30/06/2019 Conditional obligation: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this item is only asked of clients. DSS specific information: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is collected at the date of presentation. This data element is collected twice (for the client):
In both cases the reasons are those nominated by the client. This question allows the client to check all responses that apply for all the presenting reasons for seeking assistance (up to 26 valid responses). The client should also select one main reason for seeking assistance. Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2019- Homelessness, Standard 10/08/2018 Conditional obligation: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this item is only asked of clients. DSS specific information: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is collected at the date of presentation. This data element is collected twice (for the client):
In both cases the reasons are those nominated by the client. This question allows the client to check all responses that apply for all the presenting reasons for seeking assistance (up to 26 valid responses). The client should also select one main reason for seeking assistance. |