Service event—first service contact date, DDMMYYYY
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | First service contact date |
METEOR identifier: | 692122 |
Registration status: | Homelessness, Standard 10/08/2018 Youth Justice, Standard 15/02/2022 |
Definition: | The date on which the agency provides the first service to the client, expressed as DDMMYYYY. |
Data element concept attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Data element concept: | Service event—first service contact date |
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METEOR identifier: | 269624 |
Registration status: | Community Services (retired), Standard 01/03/2005 Homelessness, Standard 23/08/2010 Housing assistance, Standard 23/08/2010 Youth Justice, Standard 15/02/2022 |
Definition: | The date on which the agency provides the first service to the client. |
Object class: | Service event |
Property: | First service contact date |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Value domain attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Value domain: | Date DDMMYYYY |
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METEOR identifier: | 270566 |
Registration status: | Aged Care, Standard 30/06/2023 Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Recorded 09/08/2023 Australian Teacher Workforce Data Oversight Board, Standard 30/08/2022 Children and Families, Standard 22/11/2016 Commonwealth Department of Health, Retired 19/10/2023 Community Services (retired), Standard 01/03/2005 Disability, Standard 07/10/2014 Early Childhood, Standard 21/05/2010 Health, Standard 01/03/2005 Homelessness, Standard 23/08/2010 Housing assistance, Standard 01/03/2005 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 31/10/2012 Indigenous, Standard 11/08/2014 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 Tasmanian Health, Standard 31/08/2016 WA Health, Standard 06/03/2014 Youth Justice, Standard 15/02/2022 |
Definition: | The day of a particular month and year. |
Representational attributes | ||
Representation class: | Date | |
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Data type: | Date/Time | |
Format: | DDMMYYYY | |
Maximum character length: | 8 |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | Due to the considerable variation in the types of services provided in the community services sector, it is not possible at this stage to define in generic terms what will constitute the first service contact date. |
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Collection methods: | For each separate service episode a separate 'Service event—first service contact date, DDMMYYYY' should be recorded. |
Comments: | This metadata item is used in calculation of measures of periods of support and duration of assistance. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes Service event—first service contact date, DDMMYYYY Community Services (retired), Standard 01/03/2005 Homelessness, Superseded 10/08/2018 Housing assistance, Standard 23/08/2010 Youth Justice, Superseded 23/03/2023 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Juvenile Justice Client file cluster Youth Justice, Superseded 23/08/2022 DSS specific information: This data element is used in the youth justice client file cluster as the date on which the person was first supervised or case managed by the youth justice department (date of first supervised order). Guide for Use The date can be before the start of the NMDS (i.e. 1/7/00). ‘Contacts’ are those that would count as a supervised order (i.e. would be within scope for the JJ NMDS). Do not include court appearances or other types of contacts. If the first service contact date is unknown, leave the field blank. Business rules The first service contact must be on or before the end of the reporting period. The first service contact date must be before or equal to the earliest order start date in the JJ NMDS. The young person's age at the first service contact date (calculated using DOB) should be at least 10 years. Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2019- Homelessness, Standard 10/08/2018 Conditional obligation: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this item is only asked of clients. DSS specific information: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is collected for all clients. This data element is collected for the first service contact date within the reporting period. If the first service contact was also the start of the service episode, as recorded by the data element Service episode—episode start date, DDMMYYYY, then the same date will be recorded for both data elements. If the service episode is ongoing but the service event is new, then the actual date of the new service event should be recorded. This data element should ascertain the actual date of service, not the date when the data is recorded. Youth Justice Client file cluster Youth Justice, Standard 15/02/2022 DSS specific information: This data element is used in the youth justice client file cluster as the date on which the person was first supervised or case managed by the youth justice department (date of first supervised order). Guide for Use The date can be before the start of the NMDS (i.e. 1/7/00). A ‘contact’ is an event that is counted as part of a supervised order (i.e., would be within scope for the YJ NMDS). Do not include court appearances or other types of contacts. If the first service contact date is unknown, leave the field blank. Business rules The first service contact must be on or before the end of the reporting period. The first service contact date must be before or equal to the earliest order start date in the YJ NMDS. The young person's age at the first service contact date (calculated using DOB) should be at least 10 years. Youth Justice Client file cluster Youth Justice, Superseded 23/08/2022 DSS specific information: This data element is used in the youth justice client file cluster as the date on which the person was first supervised or case managed by the youth justice department (date of first supervised order). Guide for Use The date can be before the start of the NMDS (i.e. 1/7/00). A ‘contact’ is an event that is counted as part of a supervised order (i.e., would be within scope for the YJ NMDS). Do not include court appearances or other types of contacts. If the first service contact date is unknown, leave the field blank. Business rules The first service contact must be on or before the end of the reporting period. The first service contact date must be before or equal to the earliest order start date in the YJ NMDS. The young person's age at the first service contact date (calculated using DOB) should be at least 10 years. |