Person—Indigenous status, code AAA
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Patient Indigenous status code |
Synonymous names: | PER_INDIGENOUS_STATUS_CODE; INDIGENOUS_STATUS |
METEOR identifier: | 675163 |
Registration status: | WA Health, Standard 01/06/2017 |
Definition: | The code that represents whether a person identifies as being of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander origin.This is in accordance with the first two of three components of the Commonwealth definition. |
Data element concept attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Data element concept: | Person—Indigenous status |
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METEOR identifier: | 269618 |
Registration status: | Children and Families, Standard 22/11/2016 Community Services (retired), Standard 01/03/2005 Disability, Superseded 29/02/2016 Early Childhood, Superseded 24/07/2018 Health, Superseded 19/11/2015 Homelessness, Superseded 10/08/2018 Housing assistance, Superseded 30/08/2017 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 01/11/2012 Indigenous, Superseded 16/10/2017 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 01/09/2016 WA Health, Standard 06/03/2014 Youth Justice, Qualified 22/12/2022 |
Definition: | Indigenous Status is a measure of whether a person identifies as being of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander origin. This is in accord with the first two of three components of the Commonwealth definition. |
Context: | Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples occupy a unique place in Australian society and culture. In the current climate of reconciliation, accurate and consistent statistics about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are needed in order to plan, promote and deliver essential services, to monitor changes in wellbeing and to account for government expenditure in this area. The purpose of this metadata item is to provide information about people who identify as being of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander origin. Agencies or establishments wishing to determine the eligibility of individuals for particular benefits, services or rights will need to make their own judgments about the suitability of the standard measure for these purposes, having regard to the specific eligibility criteria for the program concerned. |
Object class: | Person |
Property: | Indigenous status |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Value domain attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Value domain: | Indigenous status code AAA |
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METEOR identifier: | 562177 |
Registration status: | WA Health, Standard 19/03/2015 |
Definition: | A set of alphabetic characters that represents whether a person identifies as being of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander origin. |
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Collection methods: | The classification for Indigenous status has a hierarchical structure comprising two levels. There are four categories at the detailed level of the classification which are grouped into two categories at the broad level. The classification is as follows: Indigenous:
Non-Indigenous:
This data item is a mandatory item for national reporting, using the data element: Person-Indigenous status, code N
Local codes are mapped to national codes for reporting purposes:
The synonymous name PER_INDIGENOUS_STATUS_CODE is used for local reporting purposes. The nationally reported data element has the synonymous name INDIGENOUS_STATUS. | ||||||||||||
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Comments: | The following definition, commonly known as 'The Commonwealth Definition', was given in a High Court judgement in the case of Commonwealth v Tasmania (1983) 46 ALR 625. 'An Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander is a person of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent who identifies as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander and is accepted as such by the community in which he or she lives'. There are three components to the Commonwealth definition:
In practice, it is not feasible to collect information on the community acceptance part of this definition in general purpose statistical and administrative collections and therefore standard questions on Indigenous status relate to descent and self-identification only. | ||||||||||||
Source and reference attributes | |||||||||||||
Origin: | National Health Data Committee National Community Services Data Committee | ||||||||||||
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Related metadata references: | Supersedes Person—Indigenous status, code AAA WA Health, Standard 19/03/2015 | ||||||||||||
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | WA Health Non-Admitted Patient Activity and Wait List Data Collection (NAPAAWL DC) 2016-17 WA Health, Standard 30/05/2017 DSS specific information: This data item is a mandatory item for national reporting in the: Non-admitted patient NBEDS 2016-17
It is reported nationally using the data element: |