Health-care incident—geographic remoteness, remoteness classification (ASGS-RA) code N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Geographic remoteness |
Synonymous names: | Geographic remoteness of health-care incident |
METEOR identifier: | 702573 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 06/09/2018 |
Definition: | The remoteness of the location at which a health-care incident took place, 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: | Health-care incident—geographic remoteness |
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METEOR identifier: | 466879 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 07/12/2011 |
Definition: | The remoteness of the location at which a health-care incident took place, based on the physical road distance to the nearest urban centre and its population size. |
Object class: | Health-care incident |
Property: | Geographic remoteness |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Value domain attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Value domain: | Remoteness classification (ASGS-RA) N |
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Synonymous names: | Remoteness area; Remoteness structure |
METEOR identifier: | 697105 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 06/09/2018 Housing assistance, Standard 10/05/2019 Indigenous, Standard 07/04/2024 |
Definition: | Australian Statistical Geography Standard—Remoteness Area (ASGS-RA) is a geographical classification which defines locations in terms of relative remoteness, i.e. the road distance of a location from the nearest Urban Centre and Locality. |
Context: | Geographic remoteness is essentially a measure of a location's level of access to services. Larger population centres tend to have a greater level of service provision than small centres. Typically, a population centre is not likely to provide a full range of services until its population reaches around 250,000 people. Information in relation to the definition and calculation of remoteness is available from the Geography portal on the ABS website. Information in relation to how ARIA+ scores are calculated for populated localities 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: | 1 | Major cities of Australia |
2 | Inner regional Australia | |
3 | Outer regional Australia | |
4 | Remote Australia | |
5 | Very remote Australia | |
6 | Migratory | |
Supplementary values: | 9 | Not stated/inadequately described |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Steward: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Origin: | Australian Bureau of Statistics 2013. - Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS): Volume 5 - Remoteness Structure, July 2011. ABS cat. no. 1270.055.005. Canberra: ABS. Viewed 15 July 2013, |
Reference documents: | Hugo Centre for Migration and Population Research 2018. ARIA. Viewed 1 May 2018, Australian Bureau of Statistics 2018. Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS): Volume 5 - Remoteness Structure, July 2016. ABS cat. no. 1270.055.005. Canberra: ABS. Viewed 30 April 2018, http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/[email protected]/mf/1270.0.55.005 |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | The remoteness classification of an entity can be derived using characteristics of its physical location, e.g. its map location or its Statistical Area Level 1 (SA1). The remoteness classification (RA1 to RA5) can be found with knowledge of the map location or SA1 of the hospital or other health service provider at which the health-care incident occurred. State/territory maps displaying remoteness areas are available from 'ASGS Remoteness Structure Edition 2016 PDF Maps'. Mapping between SA1 and remoteness area is detailed in the 'Statistical Area Level 1 (SA1) to Remoteness Area (RA) ASGS Edition 2016 in csv. Format' data cube. The website with these and other aids for remoteness classification can be accessed via the following link: The SA1 ('Region code') of a region, along with other relevant information, can be found on the interactive map of Australia accessible via the following link: http://stat.abs.gov.au/itt/r.jsp?ABSMaps When the health-care incident that gave rise to a medical indemnity claim involved a series of events that occurred in more than one location, the code recorded should reflect the location at which the primary incident or allegation type occurred. Where a missed diagnosis was the main, dominant or primary cause giving rise to a medical indemnity claim, the code recorded should be the remoteness category of the place where the diagnosis should have been made, but was not, for example the general practitioner's surgery. Code 9, 'Not stated/Inadequately described', should be used only when the information is not currently available, but is expected to become available as the medical indemnity claim progresses. |
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Reference documents: | Australian Bureau of Statistics. 1270.0.55.005 - ASGS: Volume 5 Remoteness Structure, 2016 PDF Maps. Viewed 15 August 2018. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Statistical Area Level 1 (SA1) to Remoteness Area (RA) ASGS Edition 2016 in csv format. Viewed 15 August 2018. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Australia's ASGS statistical boundaries. Viewed 15 August 2018. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes Health-care incident—geographic remoteness, remoteness classification (ASGS-RA) code N Health, Superseded 06/09/2018 |