Address—country identifier, country code (SACC 2016) NNNN
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Country identifier |
METEOR identifier: | 659626 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 06/12/2016 Aged Care, Standard 30/06/2023 |
Definition: | The country component of an address, as represented by a code. |
Data Element Concept: | Address—country identifier |
Value Domain: | Country code (SACC 2016) NNNN |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
Classification scheme: | Standard Australian Classification of Countries 2016 | |
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Representation class: | Code | |
Data type: | Number | |
Format: | NNNN | |
Maximum character length: | 4 |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Collection methods: | Data should be collected at the 4-digit level. |
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Comments: | Note that the Standard Australian Classification of Countries (SACC) is mappable to but not identical to the Australian Standard Classification of Countries for Social Statistics (ASCCSS). |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Reference documents: | Australian Bureau of Statistics 2016. Standard Australian Classification of Countries (SACC), 2016. ABS cat. no. 1269.0. Canberra: ABS. Standards Australia 2014. AS 4846:2014 Person and provider identification in healthcare. Sydney: Standards Australia. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes Address—country identifier, country code (SACC 2011) NNNN Health, Superseded 06/12/2016 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Address components cluster Health, Standard 05/10/2016 Address components cluster Aged Care, Standard 30/06/2023 Conditional obligation: Conditional on the address NOT being within Australia. |