Address—suburb/town/locality name, text X[X(45)]

Implementation start date: 01/07/2016

Implementation start date: 01/07/2022

Implementation end date: 30/06/2023

Conditional obligation:

This data element is collected on a Conditional basis with the element Address—statistical area, level 2 (SA2) code (ASGS Edition 3) N(9) of client. Data must be reported for one of the two elements, either Address—suburb/town/locality name of client or Address—statistical area, level 2 (SA2) of client.

DSS specific information:

This data element is collected relating to the client's last known home address at the start of the treatment episode.

The suburb/town/locality name of client provided must match the location of the Address—Australian postcode, code (Postcode datafile) NNNN of client provided.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2018

DSS specific information:

This metadata item is collected twice, once for the community housing provider's address (in the organisation file) and once for the dwelling address (in the dwelling file).

DSS specific information:

Implementation start date: 01/07/2012

DSS specific information:

Implementation start date: 01/07/2013

DSS specific information:

Implementation start date: 01/07/2014

DSS specific information:

Should be reported for the physical location at which the early childhood education program is delivered. If the early childhood education program is received in a home-based setting (i.e. via distance education programs such as school of the air or e-Kindy), then the location of the service provider delivering the program should be used as the basis for the address, rather than the home-based setting.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2015

DSS specific information:

Should be reported for the physical location at which the early childhood education program is delivered. If the early childhood education program is received in a home-based setting (i.e. via distance education programs such as school of the air or e-Kindy), then the location of the service provider delivering the program should be used as the basis for the address, rather than the home-based setting.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2016

Implementation end date: 30/06/2017

DSS specific information:

Should be reported for the physical location at which the early childhood education program is delivered. If the early childhood education program is received in a home-based setting (i.e. via distance education programs such as school of the air or e-Kindy), then the location of the service provider delivering the program should be used as the basis for the address, rather than the home-based setting.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2017

Implementation end date: 01/06/2018

DSS specific information:

Should be reported for the physical location at which the early childhood education program is delivered. If the early childhood education program is received in a home-based setting (i.e. via distance education programs such as school of the air or e-Kindy), then the location of the service provider delivering the program should be used as the basis for the address, rather than the home-based setting.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2018

DSS specific information:

Should be reported for the physical location at which the early childhood education program is delivered. If the early childhood education program is received in a home-based setting (i.e. via distance education programs such as school of the air or e-Kindy), then the location of the service provider delivering the program should be used as the basis for the address, rather than the home-based setting.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2012

DSS specific information:

This item should be collected twice: once for the child and once for the early childhood education and care service.

Child

Should be reported for the usual residence of the child’s parent or guardian. Do not report the post office box, suburb/town/locality name or other non-residential address of the child’s parent or guardian.

Early childhood education and care service

Should be reported for the physical location at which the preschool program is delivered.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2013

DSS specific information:

This item should be collected twice: once for the child and once for the early childhood education and care service.

Child

Should be reported for the usual residence of the child’s parent or guardian. Do not report the post office box, suburb/town/locality name or other non-residential address of the child’s parent or guardian.

Early childhood education and care service

Should be reported for the physical location at which the preschool program is delivered.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2014

DSS specific information:

This item should be collected twice: once for the child and once for the early childhood education and care service.

Child

Should be reported for the usual residence of the child’s parent or guardian. Do not report the suburb/town/locality name based on a post office box or other non-residential address of the child’s parent or guardian.

Early childhood education and care service

Should be reported for the physical location at which the early childhood education program is delivered. If the early childhood education program is received in a home-based setting (i.e. via distance education programs such as school of the air or e-Kindy), then the location of the service provider delivering the program should be used as the basis for the address, rather than the home-based setting.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2015

DSS specific information:

This item should be collected twice: once for the child and once for the early childhood education and care service.

Child

Should be reported for the usual residence of the child’s parent or guardian. Do not report the suburb/town/locality name based on a post office box or other non-residential address of the child’s parent or guardian.

Early childhood education and care service

Should be reported for the physical location at which the early childhood education program is delivered. If the early childhood education program is received in a home-based setting (i.e. via distance education programs such as school of the air or e-Kindy), then the location of the service provider delivering the program should be used as the basis for the address, rather than the home-based setting.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2016

Implementation end date: 30/06/2017

DSS specific information:

This item should be collected twice: once for the child and once for the early childhood education and care service.

Child

Should be reported for the usual residence of the child’s parent or guardian. Do not report the suburb/town/locality name based on a post office box or other non-residential address of the child’s parent or guardian.

Early childhood education and care service

Should be reported for the physical location at which the early childhood education program is delivered. If the early childhood education program is received in a home-based setting (i.e. via distance education programs such as school of the air or e-Kindy), then the location of the service provider delivering the program should be used as the basis for the address, rather than the home-based setting.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2017

Implementation end date: 30/06/2018

DSS specific information:

This item should be collected twice: once for the child and once for the early childhood education and care service.

Child

Should be reported for the usual residence of the child’s parent or guardian. Do not report the suburb/town/locality name based on a post office box or other non-residential address of the child’s parent or guardian.

Early childhood education and care service

Should be reported for the physical location at which the early childhood education program is delivered. If the early childhood education program is received in a home-based setting (i.e. via distance education programs such as school of the air or e-Kindy), then the location of the service provider delivering the program should be used as the basis for the address, rather than the home-based setting.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2018

DSS specific information:

This item should be collected twice: once for the child and once for the early childhood education and care service.

Child

Should be reported for the usual residence of the child’s parent or guardian. Do not report the suburb/town/locality name based on a post office box or other non-residential address of the child’s parent or guardian.

Early childhood education and care service

Should be reported for the physical location at which the early childhood education program is delivered. If the early childhood education program is received in a home-based setting (i.e. via distance education programs such as school of the air or e-Kindy), then the location of the service provider delivering the program should be used as the basis for the address, rather than the home-based setting.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2019

DSS specific information:

This item should be collected twice: once for the child and once for the early childhood education and care service.

Child

Should be reported for the usual residence of the child’s parent or guardian. Do not report the suburb/town/locality name based on a post office box or other non-residential address of the child’s parent or guardian.

Early childhood education and care service

Should be reported for the physical location at which the early childhood education program is delivered. If the early childhood education program is received in a home-based setting (i.e. via distance education programs such as school of the air or e-Kindy), then the location of the service provider delivering the program should be used as the basis for the address, rather than the home-based setting.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2020

DSS specific information:

This item should be collected twice: once for the child and once for the early childhood education and care service.

Child

Should be reported for the usual residence of the child’s parent or guardian. Do not report the suburb/town/locality name based on a post office box or other non-residential address of the child’s parent or guardian.

Early childhood education and care service

Should be reported for the physical location at which the early childhood education program is delivered. If the early childhood education program is received in a home-based setting (i.e. via distance education programs such as school of the air or e-Kindy), then the location of the service provider delivering the program should be used as the basis for the address, rather than the home-based setting.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2021

DSS specific information:

This item should be collected twice: once for the child and once for the early childhood education and care service.

Child

Should be reported for the usual residence of the child’s parent or guardian. Do not report the suburb/town/locality name based on a post office box or other non-residential address of the child’s parent or guardian.

Early childhood education and care service

Should be reported for the physical location at which the early childhood education program is delivered. If the early childhood education program is received in a home-based setting (i.e. via distance education programs such as school of the air or e-Kindy), then the location of the service provider delivering the program should be used as the basis for the address, rather than the home-based setting.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2011

Implementation end date: 30/06/2012

DSS specific information:

Implementation start date: 01/07/2012

Implementation end date: 30/06/2013

DSS specific information:

Implementation start date: 01/07/2013

DSS specific information:

This item is used to collect the suburb in which the dwelling is located. The field for suburb name may be truncated to 15 characters in this collection.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2018

DSS specific information:

This metadata item is collected twice, once for the Indigenous community housing provider's address (in the organisation file) and once for the dwelling address (in the dwelling file).

Implementation start date: 01/07/2015

Implementation end date: 30/06/2017

Implementation start date: 01/07/2017

Implementation end date: 30/06/2018

Implementation start date: 01/07/2018

Implementation end date: 30/06/2019

Implementation start date: 01/07/2019

Implementation end date: 30/06/2020

Implementation start date: 01/07/2020

Implementation end date: 30/06/2021

DSS specific information:

In the Indigenous primary health care NBEDS, this data element is reported twice, for:

• the service's physical address
• the service's postal address.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2020

Implementation end date: 31/12/2020

DSS specific information:

In the ISPHC NBEDS, this data element is reported twice, for:

• the organisation's physical address
• the organisation's postal address.

Implementation start date: 24/09/2009

Implementation start date: 01/07/2011

Implementation end date: 30/06/2013

DSS specific information:

The suburb/town/locality name of the child's living arrangement.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2012

Implementation end date: 30/06/2014

DSS specific information:

The suburb/town/locality name of the child's living arrangement.

For children residing outside Australia record ‘Overseas’.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2013

Implementation end date: 30/06/2015

DSS specific information:

The suburb/town/locality name of the child's living arrangement.

For children residing outside Australia record ‘Overseas’.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2014

Implementation end date: 30/06/2016

DSS specific information:

The suburb/town/locality name of the child's living arrangement.

For children residing outside Australia record ‘Overseas’.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2015

Implementation end date: 30/06/2017

DSS specific information:

The suburb/town/locality name of the child's living arrangement.

For children residing outside Australia record ‘Overseas’.

DSS specific information:

The suburb/town/locality name of the child's living arrangement.

For children residing outside Australia record ‘Overseas’.

DSS specific information:

The suburb/town/locality name of the child's living arrangement.

For children residing outside Australia record ‘Overseas’.

DSS specific information:

The suburb/town/locality name of the child's living arrangement.

For children residing outside Australia record ‘Overseas’.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2011

Implementation end date: 30/06/2013

DSS specific information:

Any valid suburb, town or locality name of the child's usual place of residence at the time of notification. May be 'No fixed abode' or 'Not known'.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2012

Implementation end date: 30/06/2014

DSS specific information:

Any valid suburb, town or locality name of the child's usual place of residence at the time of notification. May be 'No fixed abode' or 'Not known'.

For children residing outside Australia record ‘Overseas’.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2013

Implementation end date: 30/06/2015

DSS specific information:

Any valid suburb, town or locality name of the child's usual place of residence at the time of notification. May be 'No fixed abode' or 'Not known'.

For children residing outside Australia record ‘Overseas’.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2014

Implementation end date: 30/06/2016

DSS specific information:

Any valid suburb, town or locality name of the child's usual place of residence at the time of notification. May be 'No fixed abode' or 'Not known'.

For children residing outside Australia record ‘Overseas’.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2015

Implementation end date: 30/06/2017

DSS specific information:

Any valid suburb, town or locality name of the child's usual place of residence at the time of notification. May be 'No fixed abode' or 'Not known'.

For children residing outside Australia record ‘Overseas’.

DSS specific information:

Any valid suburb, town or locality name of the child's usual place of residence at the time of notification. May be 'No fixed abode' or 'Not known'.

For children residing outside Australia record ‘Overseas’.

DSS specific information:

Any valid suburb, town or locality name of the child's usual place of residence at the time of notification. May be 'No fixed abode' or 'Not known'.

For children residing outside Australia record ‘Overseas’.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2011

Implementation end date: 30/06/2012

DSS specific information:

Implementation start date: 01/07/2012

Implementation end date: 30/06/2013

DSS specific information:

Implementation start date: 01/07/2013

DSS specific information:

This item is used to collect the suburb or locality in which the dwelling is located. This field may be truncated to 15 characters by this collection.

Implementation end date: 30/06/2016

Implementation start date: 01/07/2018

DSS specific information:

This metadata item is used to collect the dwelling suburb.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2013

Implementation end date: 30/06/2014

Conditional obligation:

DSS specific information:

In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is reported twice, for:

• where the person lived one week before the first service contact (the Service episode—episode start date, DDMMYYYY)
• where the person lived the last time they had a permanent place to live.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2014

Implementation end date: 30/06/2015

Conditional obligation:

DSS specific information:

In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is reported twice, for:

• where the person lived one week before the first service contact (the Service episode—episode start date, DDMMYYYY)
• where the person lived the last time they had a permanent place to live.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2015

Implementation end date: 30/06/2017

Conditional obligation:

In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this item is only asked of clients.

DSS specific information:

In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is reported twice, for:

• where the person lived one week before the first service contact (the Service episode—episode start date, DDMMYYYY)
• where the person lived the last time they had a permanent place to live.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2017

Implementation end date: 30/06/2019

Conditional obligation:

In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this item is only asked of clients.

DSS specific information:

In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is reported twice, for:

• where the person lived one week before the first service contact (the Service episode—episode start date, DDMMYYYY)
• where the person lived the last time they had a permanent place to live.

Conditional obligation:

In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this item is only asked of clients.

DSS specific information:

In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is reported twice, for:

• where the person lived one week before the first service contact (the Service episode—episode start date, DDMMYYYY)
• where the person lived the last time they had a permanent place to live.

Implementation start date: 01/07/2016

Implementation end date: 30/06/2017

Implementation start date: 01/07/2017

Implementation end date: 30/06/2018

Implementation start date: 01/07/2018

Implementation end date: 30/06/2019

Implementation start date: 01/07/2019

Implementation end date: 30/06/2020

Implementation start date: 01/07/2020

Implementation end date: 30/06/2021

DSS specific information:

This item is collected for the suburb/town/locality name of the court in which the young person appeared when placed on the order relating to the charge. For police-referred detention, where the young person did not appear in court when being placed on the order, the court location should be reported as ‘Not applicable’.

Suburb and postcode information

From July 2020, an all-inclusive list of postcodes and suburbs will be used to check postcodes in the YJ NMDS. This list consists of unique postcodes and suburbs across all current and historical versions of postcode data purchased by the AIHW.

For the most current list of valid postcodes and suburbs, go to http://www.postconnect.com.au/postcode-data.

DSS specific information:

This item is collected for the young person’s last known home address before entering youth justice detention.

A Suburb/Town/Locality may be a town, city, suburb or commonly used location name such as a large agricultural property or Aboriginal community. The name should be spelt correctly and consistently and should not be a youth justice detention facility.

Enter ‘Unknown’ where the locality name or geographic area is not known.

Enter ‘No fixed address’ where the young person has no fixed address or is homeless.

Suburb and postcode information

From July 2020, an all-inclusive list of postcodes and suburbs will be used to check postcodes in the YJ NMDS. This list consists of unique postcodes and suburbs across all current and historical versions of postcode data purchased by the AIHW.

For the most current list of valid postcodes and suburbs, go to http://www.postconnect.com.au/postcode-data.

DSS specific information:

This item is collected for the court in which the young person appeared when placed on the order relating to the offence.

Suburb and postcode information

From July 2020, an all-inclusive list of postcodes and suburbs will be used to check postcodes in the YJ NMDS. This list consists of unique postcodes and suburbs across all current and historical versions of postcode data purchased by the AIHW.

For the most current list of valid postcodes and suburbs, go to http://www.postconnect.com.au/postcode-data.

DSS specific information:

This item is collected for the young person’s last known home address before entering youth justice supervision.

Guide for Use

A Suburb/Town/Locality may be a town, city, suburb or commonly used location name such as a large agricultural property or Aboriginal community. The name should be spelt correctly and consistently and should not be a youth justice detention facility.

Enter ‘UNKNOWN’ where the locality name or geographic area is not known.

Enter ‘NO FIXED ADDRESS’ where the young person has no fixed address or is homeless.

Suburb and postcode information

From July 2020, an all-inclusive list of postcodes and suburbs will be used to check postcodes in the YJ NMDS. This list consists of unique postcodes and suburbs across all current and historical versions of postcode data purchased by the AIHW.

For the most current list of valid postcodes and suburbs, go to http://www.postconnect.com.au/postcode-data.