Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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| METEOR identifier: | 613333 |
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| Definition: | The name a person has in common with some other members of their family. It is often hereditary, and is distinguished from that person's first given name. |
| Context: | Administrative purposes and individual identification. |
Person—family name
Object Class attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Object class: | Person |
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| Definition: | A human being. |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Comments: | Prior to 13 March 2018, the definition of the ‘Person’ Object class was ‘A human being, whether man, woman or child’. From 13 March 2018, the definition was edited by removing the words ‘…whether man, woman or child’ so that a person is defined as ‘A human being’. This amendment was undertaken to align the definition of a person with the Australian Government Guidelines on the Recognition of Sex and Gender and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Standard for Sex and Gender Variables, which recognise that there are sex and gender types that are not exclusively male or female. |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Origin: | Macquarie University 2003. The Macquarie Dictionary 3rd ed. Sydney: The Macquarie Library Pty. Ltd |
| Reference documents: | Attorney-General's Department 2015. Australian Government Guidelines on the Recognition of Sex and Gender. Viewed 26 July 2016, https://www.ag.gov.au/Publications/Pages/ ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics) 2016. Standard for Sex and Gender Variables, 2016. ABS Cat. no. 1200.0.55.012. Canberra: ABS. Viewed 26 July 2016, http://abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/[email protected]/ |
Property attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Property: | Family name |
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| Definition: | A designation for a family. |
| Property group: | Name characteristics |
Source and reference attributes
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Data element concept attributes
Source and reference attributes
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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| Reference documents: | Standards Australia 2014. AS 4846:2014 Person and provider identification in healthcare. Sydney: Standards Australia. |
Relational attributes
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Person (name)—family name
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| Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept: | Person—family name, text X[X(39)]
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