Standard Australian Classification of Countries 2016
Classification Scheme Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Classification Scheme |
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| Synonymous names: | SACC 2016 |
| METEOR identifier: | 659350 |
| Registration status: | Australian Teacher Workforce Data Oversight Board, Standard 30/08/2022 Children and Families, Standard 20/01/2021 Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired), Standard 20/06/2018 Disability, Qualified 31/07/2017 Health, Standard 06/12/2016 Homelessness, Standard 10/08/2018 Tasmanian Health, Standard 27/06/2017 Youth Justice, Standard 15/02/2022 |
| Definition: | The Standard Australian Classification of Countries (SACC) is produced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and provides guidelines for the consistent collection, aggregation and dissemination of statistics by country. |
| Classification structure: | The SACC has a three-level hierarchical structure that consists of major groups, minor groups and countries. The major and minor groups of the classification generally represent geographically contiguous groups of countries or regions that share some social, cultural, economic or political characteristics. |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | The ABS recommends all data be captured and stored at the most detailed level of the classification to enable more detailed and complex analysis, and facilitate comparisons with other data sets. Countries from different minor groups should not be added together to form an aggregation that is not included in the classification framework structure as this corrupts the application of the classification criteria and has repercussions for data comparability. Similarly, minor groups from different major groups should not be added together. In instances where some countries within a minor group are presented separately while the remaining countries within the minor group are aggregated, the group of aggregated countries should be labelled 'Other', or 'Other (minor group name)'. |
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Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Origin: | Australian Bureau of Statistics 2016. Standard Australian Classification of Countries (SACC) 2016. ABS cat. no. 1269.0. Canberra: ABS. |
| Revision status: | SACC was previously known as the Australian Standard Classification of Countries for Social Statistics (ASCCSS). The first edition of the SACC was published in 1998. The first edition had a number of revisions, with the final revision (R2.03) in 2007. The Second edition of SACC was first published in 2008.This edition was followed by SACC 2011 and 2016. |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Standard Australian Classification of Countries 2011 Children and Families, Superseded 20/01/2021 Community Services (retired), Standard 17/11/2011 Disability, Standard 07/10/2014 Health, Superseded 06/12/2016 Homelessness, Superseded 10/08/2018 Housing assistance, Standard 17/11/2011 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 01/11/2012 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 08/03/2017 |
| Value Domains based on this classification scheme: | Country code (SACC 2016) NNNN Aged Care, Standard 30/06/2023 Australian Teacher Workforce Data Oversight Board, Standard 30/08/2022 Children and Families, Standard 11/11/2018 Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired), Standard 20/06/2018 Disability, Standard 15/12/2017 Health, Standard 06/12/2016 Homelessness, Standard 10/08/2018 Tasmanian Health, Standard 27/06/2017 Youth Justice, Standard 15/02/2022 |