Bringing Them Home/Link Up Counselling Program client contacts cluster

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:

Data Set Specification

METEOR identifier:

578637

Registration status:

Indigenous, Superseded 07/12/2017

DSS type:

Data Element Cluster

Scope:

The Bringing Them Home/Link Up Counselling Program client contacts cluster describes the number of individual client contacts made by counsellors funded under the Bringing Them Home or Link Up Counselling Program by the Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (OATSIH).

The data elements are used together to provide a count of the number of client contacts by the Indigenous status and sex of the Bringing Them Home or Link Up Counselling Program clients.

Bringing Them Home/Link Up Counselling Program individual client contacts

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

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:

An individual client contact is where a client has contact with the Bringing Them Home or Link Up Counsellor for the provision of care/information. A separate contact is counted each time the client has contact with a counsellor.

Includes:

phone contacts if they involve provision of care.

Excludes:

Group work
Other individuals/family members involved in family/relationship counselling unless they have their own file or record. These are counted as separate contacts.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:

Implementation in Data Set Specifications:

All attributes +

Bringing them Home/Link Up Counsellors DSS Indigenous, Superseded 07/12/2017

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

Bringing them Home/Link Up Counsellors DSS Indigenous, Superseded 07/12/2017

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

Bringing them Home/Link Up Counsellors DSS Indigenous, Superseded 07/12/2017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 Bringing Them Home/Link Up Counselling Program 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 Bringing Them Home/Link Up Counsellors' client.	Mandatory	2
-	Service provider organisation—number of service contacts, total N[NNNNN] *DSS specific information:* This data element is used to collect the number of individual client contacts made by Bringing Them Home/Link Up Counsellors.	Mandatory	1

Bringing Them Home/Link Up Counselling Program client contacts 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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