Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Primary carer indicator |
Synonymous names: | Carer primary status |
METEOR identifier: | 621197 |
Registration status: | Disability, Superseded 15/12/2017 |
Definition: | An indicator of whether the informal carer provides assistance with one or more core activities (communication, mobility and self-care), as represented by a code. |
Data element concept attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Data element concept: | Informal carer—primary carer indicator |
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METEOR identifier: | 621210 |
Registration status: | Disability, Superseded 15/12/2017 |
Definition: | An indicator of whether the informal carer provides assistance with one or more core activities (communication, mobility and self-care). |
Object class: | Informal carer |
Property: | Primary carer indicator |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Value domain attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Value domain: | Yes/no/not stated/inadequately described code N |
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METEOR identifier: | 301747 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 21/09/2005 Housing assistance, Standard 10/02/2006 Community Services (retired), Standard 14/02/2006 Early Childhood, Standard 21/05/2010 Homelessness, Standard 23/08/2010 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 01/11/2012 Disability, Standard 07/10/2014 Indigenous, Standard 13/03/2015 Children and Families, Standard 22/11/2016 Australian Teacher Workforce Data Oversight Board, Recorded 25/10/2022 Tasmanian Health, Standard 08/11/2023 |
Definition: | A code set representing 'yes', 'no' and 'not stated/inadequately described'. |
Representational attributes | ||
Representation class: | Code | |
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Data type: | Boolean | |
Format: | N | |
Maximum character length: | 1 | |
Value | Meaning | |
Permissible values: | 1 | Yes |
2 | No | |
Supplementary values: | 9 | Not stated/inadequately described |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | CODE 9 Not stated/inadequately described This code is not for use in primary data collections.
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | This data element should only be reported in relation to service users that have an informal carer. Self-care includes activities such as bathing, dressing, eating and/or toileting. Mobility includes moving around the home and/or moving around away from home (including the ability to use transport or drive a motor vehicle) and getting in or out of bed or a chair. If the only support provided to a service user is in the area of public transport or driving a motor vehicle and this support is not required every time the service user uses these modes of transport, then a person is not generally considered to be a primary carer. For example, if a person drives the service user to the shops every second Wednesday to go shopping, and the service user can normally move/get around on their own using public transport or a motor vehicle, then the person would not be considered a ‘primary carer’. Communication includes making oneself understood by strangers/family/friends/staff, in own native language if applicable, and understanding others.
CODE 1: Yes Record if the informal carer provides care for self-care, communication or mobility. CODE 2: No Record if the informal carer does not provide care for self-care, communication or mobility.
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Comments: | This data element can be used to identify whether the carer is a primary carer (as per the Australian Bureau of Statistics Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers) and thereby facilitates comparisons with population estimates of the number of informal carers who are also primary carers. This is important in the estimation of need for services. |
Source and reference attributes | |
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Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes Informal carer—primary status, code N Community Services (retired), Standard 27/04/2007 Disability, Superseded 29/02/2016 Has been superseded by Informal carer—primary carer indicator, code N Disability, Standard 15/12/2017 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Disability Services NMDS 2015–16 Disability, Superseded 28/09/2016 Implementation start date: 01/07/2015 Implementation end date: 30/06/2016 Conditional obligation: In the Disability Services Minimum Data Set (DS NMDS), this data element should only be reported in relation to service users that have an informal carer ('Person—Informal carer existence indicator', code N = 1). Disability Services NMDS 2016–17 Disability, Superseded 15/12/2017 Implementation start date: 01/07/2016 Implementation end date: 30/06/2017 Conditional obligation: In the Disability Services National Minimum Data Set (DS NMDS), this data element should only be reported in relation to service users that have an informal carer ('Person—informal carer existence indicator, code N', with a value of 1)). |