Address—country identifier, country code (SACC 2016) NNNN
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Country identifier |
| METEOR identifier: | 659626 |
| Registration status: | Aged Care, Standard 30/06/2023 Health, Standard 06/12/2016 |
| Definition: | The country component of an address, as represented by a code. |
Data element concept attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
| Data element concept: | Address—country identifier |
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| METEOR identifier: | 430160 |
| Registration status: | Aged Care, Standard 30/06/2023 Community Services (retired), Standard 06/02/2012 Disability, Standard 13/08/2015 Health, Standard 05/10/2016 |
| Definition: | The country identifier of an address. |
| Object class: | Address |
| Property: | Country identifier |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Origin: | Standards Australia 2006. AS 4590—2006 Interchange of client information. Sydney: Standards Australia. |
Value domain attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
| Value domain: | Country code (SACC 2016) NNNN |
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| METEOR identifier: | 659444 |
| Registration status: | 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 |
| Definition: | The Standard Australian Classification of Countries (SACC 2016) code set representing a country. |
Representational attributes | ||
| Classification scheme: | Standard Australian Classification of Countries 2016 | |
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| Representation class: | Code | |
| Data type: | Number | |
| Format: | NNNN | |
| Maximum character length: | 4 | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | The Standard Australian Classification of Countries 2016 (SACC) is a four-digit, three-level hierarchical structure specifying major group, minor group and country. A country, even if it comprises other discrete political entities such as states, is treated as a single unit for all data domain purposes. Parts of a political entity are not included in different groups. Thus, Hawaii is included in Northern America (as part of the identified country United States of America), despite being geographically close to and having similar social and cultural characteristics as the units classified to Polynesia. |
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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 | |
| Collection methods: | Data should be collected at the 4-digit level. |
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| Comments: | Note that the Standard Australian Classification of Countries (SACC) is mappable to but not identical to the Australian Standard Classification of Countries for Social Statistics (ASCCSS). |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Reference documents: | Australian Bureau of Statistics 2016. Standard Australian Classification of Countries (SACC), 2016. ABS cat. no. 1269.0. Canberra: ABS. Standards Australia 2014. AS 4846:2014 Person and provider identification in healthcare. Sydney: Standards Australia. |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Address—country identifier, country code (SACC 2011) NNNN Health, Superseded 06/12/2016 |
| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Address components cluster Health, Standard 05/10/2016 |