Establishment—geographic remoteness, admitted patient care remoteness classification (ASGC-RA) N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Geographic remoteness—admitted patient care |
Synonymous names: | Geographic remoteness of establishment |
METEOR identifier: | 461473 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 11/04/2014 |
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: | Establishment—geographic remoteness |
Value Domain: | Admitted patient care remoteness classification (ASGC-RA) N |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
Classification scheme: | Australian Standard Geographical Classification 2010 | |
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Representation class: | Code | |
Data type: | String | |
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 is available from the Geography portal on the ABS website: Australian Bureau of Statistics 2011. ABS Geography. Viewed 14 November 2011, Information relating to the development of the ARIA and ARIA+ scores by the National Centre for Social Applications of Geographic Information Systems (GISCA) is available from the GISCA website: National Centre for Social Applications of Geographic Information Systems 2011. ARIA - Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia. Viewed 14 November 2011, |
Data element attributes | |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Establishment—geographic remoteness, admitted patient care remoteness classification (ASGS-RA) N Health, Superseded 06/09/2018 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Admitted patient care NMDS 2012-13 Health, Superseded 02/05/2013 Implementation start date: 01/07/2012 Implementation end date: 30/06/2013 Admitted patient care NMDS 2013-14 Health, Superseded 11/04/2014 Implementation start date: 01/07/2013 Implementation end date: 30/06/2014 |