Establishment—geographic remoteness, admitted patient care remoteness classification (ASGS-RA) N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Geographic remoteness (establishment) |
Synonymous names: | Geographic remoteness of establishment |
METEOR identifier: | 702571 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 06/12/2023 |
Definition: | The remoteness of an establishment providing admitted patient care, based on the physical road distance to the nearest urban centre and its population size, as represented by a code. |
Data element concept attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Data element concept: | Establishment—geographic remoteness |
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Synonymous names: | Hospital remoteness area |
METEOR identifier: | 461468 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 07/12/2011 |
Definition: | The remoteness of an establishment, based on the physical road distance to the nearest urban centre and its population size. |
Context: | Health service |
Object class: | Establishment |
Property: | Geographic remoteness |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Value domain attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Value domain: | Admitted patient care remoteness classification (ASGS-RA) N |
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METEOR identifier: | 702568 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 06/12/2023 |
Definition: | Australian Statistical Geography Standard-Remoteness Area (ASGS-RA) is a geographical classification which defines locations in terms of remoteness, i.e. the physical road distance of a location from the nearest Service Centre (a populated locality where the population is greater than 1,000 persons), within population size categories. |
Context: | Geographic remoteness is essentially a measure of a physical location's level of access to goods and services. Large population centres tend to have a greater range of goods and services available than small population centres. Typically, a population centre is not likely to provide a full range of goods and services until its population reaches around 250,000 people. The measures of remoteness used by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) are based on population estimates obtained from the Census of Population and Housing, conducted every 5 years. Remoteness measures are calculated using Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia (ARIA+) scores, which are based on the distance of geographic locations from the nearest populated locality in various size ranges. The lower the ARIA+ score for a location, the better its level of access to goods and services. Information in relation to how remoteness is defined and calculated is available from the Statistical Geography portal on the ABS website. Information in relation to how ARIA+ scores are calculated for physical locations is available from the Hugo Centre for Migration and Population Research website. |
Representational attributes | ||
Classification scheme: | Australian Statistical Geography Standard 2016 | |
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Representation class: | Code | |
Data type: | Number | |
Format: | N | |
Maximum character length: | 1 | |
Value | Meaning | |
Permissible values: | 0 | Major cities of Australia |
1 | Inner regional Australia | |
2 | Outer regional Australia | |
3 | Remote Australia | |
4 | Very remote Australia | |
5 | Migratory | |
Supplementary values: | 9 | Not stated/inadequately described |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Origin: | Information relating to remoteness and other aspects of statistical geography is available from the Statistical Geography portal on the ABS website: Australian Bureau of Statistics 2016. ABS Geography. Viewed 15 August 2018, http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/ Information relating to the development of the ARIA and ARIA+ scores by the Australian Population and Migration Research Centre (APMRC) within the National Centre for Social Applications of Geographic Information Systems (GISCA) at the University of Adelaide is available from the APMRC website: Australian Population and Migration Research Centre 2013. ARIA - Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia. Viewed 15 August 2018, https://www.adelaide.edu.au/hugo-centre/spatial_data/aria/ |
Data element attributes | |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes Establishment—geographic remoteness, admitted patient care remoteness classification (ASGS-RA) N Health, Superseded 06/09/2018 Has been superseded by Establishment—geographic remoteness, admitted patient care remoteness classification (ASGS edition 3) N Health, Standard 06/12/2023 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Admitted patient care NMDS 2018-19 Health, Superseded 12/12/2018 Implementation start date: 01/07/2018 Implementation end date: 30/06/2019 Admitted patient care NMDS 2019-20 Health, Superseded 18/12/2019 Implementation start date: 01/07/2019 Implementation end date: 30/06/2020 Admitted patient care NMDS 2020–21 Health, Superseded 05/02/2021 Implementation start date: 01/07/2020 Implementation end date: 30/06/2021 Admitted patient care NMDS 2021–22 Health, Superseded 20/10/2021 Implementation start date: 01/07/2021 Implementation end date: 30/06/2022 Admitted patient care NMDS 2022–23 Health, Superseded 20/12/2022 Implementation start date: 01/07/2022 Implementation end date: 30/06/2023 Admitted patient care NMDS 2023–24 Health, Superseded 06/12/2023 Implementation start date: 01/07/2023 Implementation end date: 30/06/2024 |