Person—reason for seeking assistance, text A[A(49)]

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element
Short name:	Other reason for seeking assistance (homelessness)
Synonymous names:	Presenting reason (other)
METEOR identifier:	508409
Registration status:	Homelessness, Standard 01/05/2013 Housing assistance, Standard 01/05/2013
Definition:	The reason why a person presented to a specialist homelessness agency in order to seek assistance, as represented by text.
Data Element Concept:	Person—reason for seeking assistance
Value Domain:	Text A[A(49)]

Value domain attributes
Representational attributes
Representation class:	Text
Data type:	String
Format:	A[A(49)]
Maximum character length:	50

Data element attributes
Collection and usage attributes
Guide for use:	This data element is intended to focus on the reason the person presented to the agency as opposed to the underlying reasons or causes that may have built up over a lifetime.
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	See also Person—reason for seeking assistance, homelessness code N[N] Homelessness, Standard 24/11/2016
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: All attributes +	Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2013-14 Homelessness, Superseded 26/08/2014 Housing assistance, Superseded 26/08/2014 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2013 Implementation end date: 30/06/2014 Conditional obligation: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is collected at the date of presentation. This data element is conditional on the person responding with Other (CODE 26), in the data element Person—reason for seeking assistance, homelessness code N[N]. Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2014-15 Homelessness, Superseded 24/11/2016 Housing assistance, Superseded 24/11/2016 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2014 Implementation end date: 30/06/2015 Conditional obligation: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is collected at the date of presentation. This data element is conditional on the person responding with Other (CODE 26), in the data element Person—reason for seeking assistance, homelessness code N[N]. Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2015-17 Homelessness, Superseded 24/11/2016 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2015 Implementation end date: 30/06/2017 Conditional obligation: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is collected at the date of presentation. This data element is conditional on the person responding with Other (CODE 26), in the data element Person—reason for seeking assistance, homelessness code N[N]. Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2017-19 Homelessness, Superseded 10/08/2018 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2017 Implementation end date: 30/06/2019 Conditional obligation: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is collected at the date of presentation. This data element is conditional on the person responding with Other (Code 26), in the data element Person—reason for seeking assistance, homelessness code N[N]. Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2019- Homelessness, Standard 10/08/2018 DSS specific attributes + Conditional obligation: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is collected at the date of presentation. This data element is conditional on the person responding with Other (Code 26), in the data element Person—reason for seeking assistance, homelessness code N[N].