Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care services client numbers cluster

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:

Data Set Specification

METEOR identifier:

565806

Registration status:

Indigenous, Standard 16/09/2014

DSS type:

Data Element Cluster

Scope:

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care services client numbers cluster describes the number of clients seen by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care service during the reporting period, by their Indigenous status.

Number of clients

Indigenous status of clients	Number
Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander clients	N[NNN]
Non-Indigenous clients	N[NNN]
Unknown Indigenous status of clients	N[NNN]
Total clients	N[NNN]

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:

Each individual client is counted once only. For family groups, only people who have their own file/record are included.

Exclude clients who only attended groups and did not receive individual care.

Collection methods:

An estimation is acceptable if accurate figures are not available.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Relational attributes

Implementation in Data Set Specifications:

All attributes +

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care services DSS Indigenous, Superseded 07/12/2017

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/06/2010 *Implementation end date:* 30/07/2011

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care services DSS Indigenous, Superseded 07/12/2017

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/06/2008 *Implementation end date:* 30/07/2009

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care services DSS Indigenous, Standard 07/12/2017

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2011 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2012

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care services DSS Indigenous, Superseded 07/12/2017

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2009 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2010

Metadata items in this Data Set Specification

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Seq No.	Metadata item																				Obligation	Max occurs
-	Person—Indigenous status, code N *DSS specific information:* In the Indigenous status data element, codes 1 (Aboriginal but not Torres Strait Islander origin), 2 (Torres Strait Islander but not Aboriginal origin) and 3 (Both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander origin) are aggregated to Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, code 4 (Neither Aboriginal nor Torres Strait Islander origin) maps to non-Indigenous and code 9 (Not stated/inadequately described) maps to Unknown Indigenous status.																				Mandatory	3
-	Service provider organisation—number of clients, total people N[NNNN] *DSS specific information:* This data element refers to the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care service's clients.																				Mandatory	1

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care services client numbers cluster

Identifying and definitional attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Source and reference attributes

Relational attributes

Metadata items in this Data Set Specification

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