Person—main language other than English spoken at home, text X[X(99)]
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Main language other than English spoken at home text |
METEOR identifier: | 696782 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 29/05/2024 |
Definition: | The language reported by a person as the main language other than English spoken by that person in his/her home (or most recent private residential setting occupied by the person) to communicate with other residents of the home or setting and regular visitors, as represented by text. |
Data Element Concept: | Person—main language other than English spoken at home |
Value Domain: | Text X[X(99)] |
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Representational attributes | ||
Representation class: | Text | |
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Data type: | String | |
Format: | X[X(99)] | |
Maximum character length: | 100 |
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Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | This data element should be used in conjunction with the Person—main language other than English spoken at home, code (ASCL 2016) N[NNN] data element, where code 2 'Other ' was selected. |
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Reference documents: | Australian Bureau of Statistics 2016a. Australian Standard Classification of Languages (ASCL) 2016. ABS cat. no.1267.0. Canberra: ABS. Australian Bureau of Statistics 2016b. Language Standards 2016. ABS cat. no.1200.0.55.005. Canberra: ABS. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | See also Person—main language other than English spoken at home, code (ASCL 2016) N[NNN] Children and Families, Standard 20/01/2021 Health, Standard 25/01/2018 Homelessness, Standard 10/08/2018 Housing assistance, Recorded 19/06/2024 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Prison dischargee NBEDS 2018 Health, Superseded 29/05/2024 Conditional obligation: Conditional on the main language spoken at home being a language other than English. DSS specific information: This data element corresponds to the following question of the Prison Dischargee Form: 8. Main language spoken at home. Prison entrants NBEDS 2018 Health, Superseded 29/05/2024 Conditional obligation: Conditional on the main language spoken at home being a language other than English. DSS specific information: This data element corresponds to the following question of the Prison Entrants Form: 7. Main language spoken at home. |