Collection of locality, postcode and state/territory for SEIFA cluster

Identifying and definitional attributes

• Early Childhood, Standard 24/07/2018

This cluster contains three data elements which, if collected together, enable data to be mapped to Statistical Areal Level 2 (SA2) or Statistical Local Area (SLA) geographic unit which can be examined on the SEIFA indexes to ascertain a SEIFA score for a geographic area which is a measure of the collective socio-economic status of the people living in the area.

The collection of information about a person's or service provider organisation's locality, postcode and state/territory enables the geographical entity to be ascertained which can then be examined in the relevant SEIFA index. Where locality, postcode and state/territory are collected, there are a number of concordance/correspondence files available from [email protected] which can assist in assigning geographic area codes, such as:

• 2011 localities (and postcode and state/territory) to 2011 SA2
• 2011 localities (and postcode and state/territory) to 2011 SLAs.

Collection and usage attributes

The collection of residential postcode + locality + state/territory can be mapped to SA2 or SLA. The SLA geographical unit from the ASGC geography framework is being supported for the 2011 Census and 2011 SEIFA.

SEIFA indexes are assigned to areas, not to individuals.

Relational attributes