Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Unpaid staff hours worked |
METEOR identifier: | 680412 |
Registration status: | Disability, Standard 15/12/2017 |
Definition: | The total number of hours worked by unpaid staff in a service type outlet. |
Data Element Concept: | Service type outlet—unpaid staff hours worked |
Value Domain: | Total hours NNNNN |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
Representation class: | Total | |
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Data type: | Number | |
Format: | NNNNN | |
Maximum character length: | 5 | |
Unit of measure: | Hour (h) |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | Total hours expressed as 00000, 00001, 00425 etc. |
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Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | This item is asking for actual staff hours worked by volunteer staff, not the rostered hours or full-time equivalent staff. |
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Collection methods: | In some collections this metadata item may be collected for a specified week. Other collections may specify a 'usual' week or an average week calculated from a number of weeks or the entire year. |
Comments: | This data element assists in the analysis of staffing inputs and to enable a comparison of the staffing requirements of different service types. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes Service type outlet—hours worked (volunteer/unpaid staff), total hours NNNNN Community Services (retired), Standard 10/04/2013 Disability, Superseded 17/12/2017 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Disability Services NMDS 2017–18 Disability, Superseded 05/07/2019 Implementation start date: 01/07/2017 Implementation end date: 30/06/2018 DSS specific information: In the Disability Services National Minimum Data Set (DS NMDS), hours worked by unpaid staff refers to the actual total hours worked by staff, volunteers or students and others who do not receive payment for the work which they perform on behalf of the service type outlet. It collects hours worked, not full-time equivalents or rostered weekly hours. It includes hours worked on behalf of the service type outlet both directly delivered to service users, and indirectly to service users (for example, indirect hours such as related committee meetings). This data element is collected twice within the Disability Services National Minimum Data Set (DS NMDS):
Staff hours should be rounded up to the nearest whole hour. Inclusions and exclusions for the calculation of unpaid/volunteer staff hours:
For funded agencies with multiple service type outlets (and where staff hours per service type outlet are not known), all staff should be apportioned across service type outlets. To apportion staff across different service type outlets it is recommended that agencies:
A funded agency may receive funding from multiple sources, however for DS NMDS purposes, only those services provided using NDA funds should be recorded. Where a funded agency is unable to differentiate all data according to funding source (i.e. NDA or other), they are asked to provide full details (in this case, staff hours) regardless of funding source. If the service type outlet is funded to provide service type 2.06 Case management, local coordination and development, the following rules for calculating staff hours apply:
If the service type outlet sub-contracts the provision of part or all of a service type (other than 2.06) they are funded to provide to another agency:
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