Person—geographic 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 |
Synonymous names: | Geographic remoteness of person |
METEOR identifier: | 569240 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 06/09/2018 |
Definition: | The remoteness of a location at which a person lives, based on the physical road distance to the nearest urban centre and its population size, as represented by a code. |
Data Element Concept: | Person—geographic remoteness |
Value Domain: | Remoteness classification (ASGS-RA) N |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
Classification scheme: | Australian Statistical Geography Standard 2011 | |
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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: | Publications detailing the ASGS remoteness classification are available free of charge from the ABS website: Australian Bureau of Statistics 2013. 1270.055.005 - Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS): Volume 5 - Remoteness Structure, July 2011. Viewed 15 July 2013, |
Reference documents: | 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 APMRC website: Australian Population and Migration Research Centre (APMRC) 2013. ARIA (Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia). Viewed 15 July 2013, |