Prison entrant—number of times in prison or juvenile detention, prisoner health total N[NN]
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Prison entrant number of times in prison or juvenile detention |
Synonymous names: | Number of times in prison; number of times in detention |
METEOR identifier: | 697398 |
Registration status: | Health, Qualified 06/07/2023 |
Definition: | The total number of times a prison entrant has been imprisoned in a prison and/or in a juvenile detention centre. |
Data Element Concept: | Prison entrant—number of times in prison or juvenile detention |
Value Domain: | Prisoner health total number N[NN] |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
Representation class: | Total | |
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Data type: | Number | |
Format: | N[NN] | |
Maximum character length: | 3 | |
Value | Meaning | |
Supplementary values: | 999 | Unknown |
Unit of measure: | Score |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | For use in Prisoner health data collections. If this value domain is used with other metadata then 'Unknown' would map to code 998. |
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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: | The total number of times in an adult prison includes the current imprisonment. This data element should be used in conjunction with the data element: Prison entrant—type of corrective services facility, code N to provide information on the prison entrant's incarceration history. |
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Comments: | Commonly, prisoners have been in prison or juvenile detention numerous times (AIHW 2010). |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Reference documents: | AIHW (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare) 2010. The health of Australia's prisoners 2009. Cat. no. PHE 123. Canberra: AIHW |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes Prison entrant—number of times in prison or juvenile detention, total number N[N] Health, Standard 25/08/2011 See also Prison entrant—type of corrective services facility, code N Health, Qualified 07/03/2024 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Incarceration history cluster Health, Qualified 06/07/2023 |