Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander standalone substance use services client numbers cluster

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:

Data Set Specification

METEOR identifier:

568225

Registration status:

Indigenous, Superseded 07/12/2017

DSS type:

Data Element Cluster

Scope:

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander standalone substance use services client numbers cluster describes the number of clients seen by the standalone substance use service during the reporting period, by their Indigenous status, and sex.

Number of clients

	Male	Female	Total
Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander clients	N[NNN]	N[NNN]	N[NNN]
Non-Indigenous clients	N[NNN]	N[NNN]	N[NNN]
Total clients	N[NNN]	N[NNN]	N[NNN]

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:

Each individual client is counted once only, irrespective of the number of times that they have been seen, and whether they attended more than one program.

Inclusions:

clients that received individual care, including residential care (e.g. residential treatment/rehabilitation and sobering-up/residential respite)
clients not in residential care and receiving individual counselling, home visits, telephone counselling, Mobile Assistance Patrol/Night Patrol (if provided by the service)

Exclusions:

clients who attended groups and did not attend the service individually.
Family members of clients unless the family member is also a client of the service in their own right and has their own file/record.

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

Related metadata references:

Implementation in Data Set Specifications:

All attributes +

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander standalone substance use services DSS Indigenous, Superseded 07/12/2017

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

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander standalone substance use services DSS Indigenous, Superseded 07/12/2017

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

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander standalone substance use services DSS Indigenous, Superseded 07/12/2017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:* This data element is used to determine the Indigenous status of the standalone substance use service clients. 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	2
-	Person—sex, code N *DSS specific information:* This data element is used to determine the sex of the standalone substance use service clients.	Mandatory	2
-	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 standalone substance use service clients.	Mandatory	1

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander standalone substance use 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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