Adoptive parent marital status code N
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Value Domain |
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| METEOR identifier: | 651142 |
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| Definition: | A code set representing the marital status of an adoptive parent. |
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| Representation class: | Code | ||||||||
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| Data type: | Number | ||||||||
| Format: | N | ||||||||
| Maximum character length: | 1 | ||||||||
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Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | Refers to the marital status of a person at the time of placement of a child for adoption. CODE 1 Single Includes situations where there is one adoptive parent who is not legally married or living in a de facto relationship. This category may include widowed parents. CODE 2 Married Includes situations where there are two adoptive parents who are legally married to each other and living together at the time of placement of the child. This may include people who have been divorced or widowed but have since re-married. CODE 3 De facto relationship Includes situations where there are two adoptive parents who are not legally married, but are living together in a de facto relationship as defined by the state or territory in which they live, and should be generally accepted as applicable to de facto couples of the same sex.
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Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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| Steward: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Reference documents: | <p>Australian Bureau of Statistics 2015. Family, household and income unit variables, 2014. Cat. no. 1286.0. Canberra: ABS.</p> |
Relational attributes | |
| Data elements implementing this value domain: | Adoptive family—adoptive parent marital status, code N
Adoptive family—adoptive parent marital status, code N
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