Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care services paid full-time equivalent positions cluster

Identifying and definitional attributes

• Indigenous, Superseded 07/12/2017

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care services paid full-time equivalent positions cluster describes the number and type of full-time equivalent positions for which the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care service paid wages, salaries and fees at the end of the reporting period.

The full-time equivalent positions are further broken down by the Indigenous status of the workers, and both the Indigenous status and sex of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health-care services paid full-time equivalent positions

Collection and usage attributes

If 'full-time equivalent' positions are difficult to work out, show details of how often each person works (e.g. a psychologist visits the service one morning session per month).

Inclusions:

• health and related administrative positions where the service pays the wages/salary/fees through all sources of funding (e.g. Medicare, OATSIH, State/Territory government health departments
• visiting health professionals where the service pays the wages/salary/fees
• short term and recurrent funded positions
• contract workers paid by the service (e.g. cleaners, accountants).

Exclusions:

• Community development employment projects (CDEP) staff as they are counted as workers not paid by the service
• visiting health professionals where payments are not made by the service as they are counted as workers not paid by the service
• staff in other programs (e.g. housing, employment, HACC, child care).

Source and reference attributes

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Relational attributes