Medicare remoteness classification (ASGS-RA) N
Value Domain Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Value Domain |
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METEOR identifier: | 610726 |
Registration status: | Commonwealth Department of Health, Retired 19/10/2023 |
Definition: | Australian Statistical Geography Standard-Remoteness Area (ASGS-RA) is a geographical classification which defines locations in terms of remoteness, i.e. the physical road distance of a location from the nearest Service Centre (a populated locality where the population is greater than 1,000 persons), within population size categories. |
Context: | Geographic remoteness is essentially a measure of a physical location's level of access to goods and services. Large population centres tend to have a greater range of goods and services available than small population centres. Typically, a population centre is not likely to provide a full range of goods and services until its population reaches around 250,000 people. The measures of remoteness used by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) are based on population estimates obtained from the Census of Population and Housing, conducted every 5 years. Remoteness measures are calculated using Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia (ARIA+) scores, which are based on the distance of geographic locations from the nearest populated locality in various size ranges. The lower the ARIA+ score for a location, the better its level of access to goods and services. Information in relation to how remoteness is defined and calculated is available from the Statistical Geography portal on the ABS website. Information in relation to how ARIA+ scores are calculated for physical locations is available from the Australian Population and Migration Research Centre (APMRC) website. |
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 | Regional Australia | |
3 | Remote Australia |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Department of Health |
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Origin: | Information relating to remoteness and other aspects of statistical geography is available from the Statistical Geography portal on the ABS website: Australian Bureau of Statistics 2011. ABS Geography. Viewed 19 November 2013, http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/ |
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Related metadata references: | See also Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) remoteness classification (ASGS-RA) X Commonwealth Department of Health, Retired 19/10/2023 See also Remoteness classification (ASGS Edition 3) code N Aged Care, Standard 30/06/2023 Health, Recorded 27/04/2023 See also Remoteness classification (ASGS-RA) N Health, Superseded 06/09/2018 See also Remoteness classification (ASGS-RA) N Health, Standard 06/09/2018 Housing assistance, Standard 10/05/2019 Indigenous, Standard 07/04/2024 |
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