Address—statistical area, level 3 (SA3) code (ASGS 2016) NNNNN
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Statistical area level 3 (SA3) |
Synonymous names: | SA3 |
METEOR identifier: | 723561 |
Registration status: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Standard 15/10/2019 |
Definition: | A designated region representing a standardised regional breakup of Australia, as represented by a code. The aim of SA3s is to create a standard framework for the analysis of ABS data at the regional level through clustering groups of SA2s that have similar regional characteristics. |
Data element concept attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Data element concept: | Address—statistical area |
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METEOR identifier: | 457285 |
Registration status: | Children and Families, Standard 22/11/2016 Community Services (retired), Standard 06/12/2011 Disability, Standard 13/08/2015 Early Childhood, Superseded 24/07/2018 Health, Superseded 06/12/2016 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 |
Definition: | A designated region with a pre-determined population used for describing location and contact details. Based on the Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) structure of six hierarchical statistical area levels comprised in ascending order. |
Object class: | Address |
Property: | Statistical area |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |