Person—country of birth, text X[X(99)]
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Country of birth text |
| METEOR identifier: | 696778 |
| Registration status: |
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| Definition: | The country in which a person was born, as represented by text. |
| Data Element Concept: | Person—country of birth |
Value domain attributes | |
Representational attributes | |
| Representation class: | Text |
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| Data type: | String |
| Format: | X[X(99)] |
| Maximum character length: | 100 |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | This data element should be used in conjunction with the Person—country of birth, code (SACC 2016) NNNN data element, where a country other than Australia is selected. |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Reference documents: | Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) 2016a. Country of Birth Standard, 2016. ABS cat. no. 1200.0.55.004. Canberra: ABS. ABS 2016b. Standard Australian Classification of Countries (SACC) 2016. ABS cat. no. 1269.0. Canberra: ABS. |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | See also Person—country of birth, code (SACC 2016) NNNN
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