Person—country of birth, text X[X(99)]
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Country of birth text |
METEOR identifier: | 696778 |
Registration status: | Health, Qualified 06/07/2023 |
Definition: | The country in which a person was born, as represented by text. |
Data element concept attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Data element concept: | Person—country of birth |
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METEOR identifier: | 269686 |
Registration status: | Aged Care, Standard 30/06/2023 Australian Teacher Workforce Data Oversight Board, Standard 30/08/2022 Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired), Standard 20/06/2018 Community Services (retired), Standard 01/03/2005 Disability, Standard 07/10/2014 Health, Standard 01/03/2005 Homelessness, Standard 23/08/2010 Housing assistance, Standard 27/07/2005 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 01/11/2012 Tasmanian Health, Standard 31/08/2016 WA Health, Standard 19/03/2015 Youth Justice, Standard 15/02/2022 |
Definition: | The country in which the person was born. |
Context: | Country of birth is important in the study of access to services by different population sub-groups. Country of birth is the most easily collected and consistently reported of a range of possible data items that may indicate cultural or language diversity. Country of birth may be used in conjunction with other data such as period of residence in Australia, etc., to derive more sophisticated measures of access to (or need for) services by different population sub-groups. |
Object class: | Person |
Property: | Country of birth |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Value domain attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Value domain: | Text X[X(99)] |
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METEOR identifier: | 270662 |
Registration status: | Community Services (retired), Standard 14/09/2009 Health, Standard 01/03/2005 Indigenous, Standard 11/08/2014 Tasmanian Health, Standard 04/05/2021 Youth Justice, Standard 15/02/2022 |
Definition: | A combination of alphanumeric characters. |
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. |
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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 Aged Care, Standard 30/06/2023 Australian Teacher Workforce Data Oversight Board, Standard 30/08/2022 Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired), Standard 20/06/2018 Disability, Standard 15/12/2017 Health, Standard 06/12/2016 Homelessness, Standard 10/08/2018 Tasmanian Health, Standard 27/06/2017 Youth Justice, Standard 15/02/2022 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Prison dischargee NBEDS 2018 Health, Qualified 06/07/2023 Conditional obligation: Conditional on the country of birth being a country other than Australia. DSS specific information: This data element corresponds to the following question of the Prison Dischargee Form: 7. Country of birth. Prison entrants NBEDS 2018 Health, Qualified 07/03/2024 Conditional obligation: Conditional on the country of birth being a country other than Australia. DSS specific information: This data element corresponds to the following question of the Prison Entrants Form: 6. Country of birth. |