Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander standalone substance use service client numbers cluster

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:

Data Set Specification

METEOR identifier:

677077

Registration status:

Indigenous, Standard 07/12/2017

DSS type:

Data Element Cluster

Scope:

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander standalone substance use service client numbers cluster describes the number of clients seen by the standalone substance use service during the reporting period, by Indigenous status, and sex.

Number of clients

	Male	Female	Total
Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander clients	N[NNN]	N[NNN]	N[NNN]
Non-Indigenous clients	N[NNN]	N[NNN]	N[NNN]
Total clients	N[NNN]	N[NNN]	N[NNN]

Collection and usage attributes
Guide for use:	Each individual client is counted once only, irrespective of the number of times that they have been seen, and whether they attended more than one program. Inclusions: clients that received individual care, including residential care (e.g. residential treatment/rehabilitation and sobering-up/residential respite) clients not in residential care and receiving individual counselling, home visits, telephone counselling, Mobile Assistance Patrol/Night Patrol (if provided by the service) Exclusions: clients who attended groups and did not attend the service individually. Family members of clients unless the family member is also a client of the service in their own right and has their own file/record.
Collection methods:	An estimation is acceptable if accurate figures are not available. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander standalone substance use service is required to provide counts of male, female and total clients by Indigenous status, as detailed in the Scope, Number of clients table. The total clients may include counts for which Indigenous status or sex was not known or not reported.
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	Supersedes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander standalone substance use services client numbers cluster Indigenous, Superseded 07/12/2017
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: All attributes +	Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander standalone substance use services DSS Indigenous, Standard 07/12/2017 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2011 Implementation end date: 30/06/2012

Metadata items in this Data Set Specification

Show more detail

Seq No.	Metadata item	Obligation	Max occurs
-	Person—Indigenous status, code N *DSS specific information:* This data element is used to determine the Indigenous status of the standalone substance use service clients. In the Indigenous status data element, codes 1 (Aboriginal but not Torres Strait Islander origin), 2 (Torres Strait Islander but not Aboriginal origin) and 3 (Both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander origin) are aggregated to Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, code 4 (Neither Aboriginal nor Torres Strait Islander origin) maps to non-Indigenous and code 9 (Not stated/inadequately described) maps to Unknown Indigenous status.	Mandatory	2
-	Person—sex, code N *DSS specific information:* This data element is used to determine the sex of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander standalone substance use service's clients.	Mandatory	2
-	Service provider organisation—number of clients, total people N[NNNN] *DSS specific information:* This data element refers to the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander standalone substance use service clients.	Mandatory	1

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander standalone substance use service client numbers cluster

Data Set Specification Attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Source and reference attributes

Relational attributes

Metadata items in this Data Set Specification

<Title>