Person—Australian state/territory identifier, ACT-prioritised code N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Australian state/territory identifier (person) (ACT-prioritised) |
| METEOR identifier: | 603302 |
| Registration status: | Commonwealth Department of Health, Retired 19/10/2023 |
| Definition: | An identifier of the Australian state or territory in which the person is located, as represented by a code. |
| Data Element Concept: | Person—Australian state/territory identifier |
| Value Domain: | ACT-prioritised Australian state/territory code N |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
| Representation class: | Code | |
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| Data type: | String | |
| Format: | N | |
| Maximum character length: | 1 | |
| Value | Meaning | |
| Permissible values: | 1 | Australian Capital Territory |
| 2 | New South Wales | |
| 3 | Victoria | |
| 4 | Queensland | |
| 5 | South Australia | |
| 6 | Western Australia | |
| 7 | Tasmania | |
| 8 | Northern Territory | |
| Supplementary values: | 9 | Unknown |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | Care should be taken when using this value domain as it presents the Australian states/territories in an order different to those most commonly used by agencies such as the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). The state/territory order presented in this value domain is known to be used in the underlying information systems of the Medicare Benefits Scheme (MBS) and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), and possibly reflects the historical data management practices of some Canberra-based Commonwealth government agencies, whereby Canberra (and by extension, the ACT) was considered to represent something like 'Central office' or 'Head office'. Agencies such as the ABS and AIHW publish data in state/territory order based on population. The ABS-preferred order (NSW, Vic., Qld, SA, WA, Tas., NT and ACT) reflects historic relative state/territory populations and has been retained by the ABS to preserve continuity of presentation and minimise the risk of error in the handling or interpreting of data. The AIHW-preferred order reflects more recent trends in the relative populations of the states/territories, i.e. as above, but with WA before SA and ACT before NT. |
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Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Department of Health |
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| Reference documents: | Australian Bureau of Statistics. Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS): Volume 1 - Main Structure and Greater Capital City Statistical Areas, July 2011. ABS cat. no. 1270.0.55.001. Canberra: ABS. |
Data element attributes | |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Department of Health |
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Relational attributes | |
| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) state/territory data extract 2013-14 Commonwealth Department of Health, Retired 19/10/2023 |