Person—partner's date of birth, MMYYYY
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Partner's date of birth |
METEOR identifier: | 666180 |
Registration status: | Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired), Standard 20/06/2018 |
Definition: | The month and year of birth of the person's partner. |
Context: | Required for a range of clinical and administrative purposes. Date of birth enables derivation of age for use in demographic analyses, assists in the unique identification of clients if other identifying information is missing or in question, and may be required for the derivation of other metadata items (e.g. the diagnosis related group for admitted patients). |
Data Element Concept: | Person—partner's date of birth |
Value Domain: | Date MMYYYY |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
Representation class: | Date | |
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Data type: | Date/Time | |
Format: | MMYYYY | |
Maximum character length: | 6 |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Collection methods: | In some collections data may be reported in DDMMYYYY format. Agencies providing data to other agencies may choose to provide the abbreviated version (MMYYYY) to protect the privacy of respondents. |
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Government Department of Social Services |
Relational attributes | |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Demographics Cluster Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired), Standard 20/06/2018 Conditional obligation: Conditional on a person having a partner. DSS specific information: Partner's date of birth refers to the variable PTNR_DOB_SHORT in the PIA research data set. |