Person (address)—suburb/town/locality name, text A[A(49)]
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Suburb/town/locality name |
Synonymous names: | Suburb/town/locality name |
METEOR identifier: | 270501 |
Registration status: | Health!, Superseded 04/05/2005 Community Services (retired), Superseded 25/08/2005 |
Data Element Concept: | Person (address)—suburb/town/locality name |
Value Domain: | Text A[A(49)] |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
Representation class: | Text | |
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Data type: | String | |
Format: | A[A(49)] | |
Maximum character length: | 50 |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | The suburb/town/locality name, may be a town, city, suburb or commonly used location name such as a large agricultural property or Aboriginal community. The Australian Bureau of Statistics has suggested that a maximum field length of 50 characters should be sufficient to record the vast majority of locality names. This metadata item may be used to describe the location of person, organisation or event. It can be a component of a street or postal address. |
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Collection methods: | Enter 'Unknown' when the locality name or geographic area for a person or event is not known. Enter 'No fixed address' when a person has no fixed address or is homeless. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | National Health Data Committee National Community Services Data Committee |
Origin: | Standards Australia 2002. Australian Standard AS5017-2002 Health Care Client Identification. Sydney: Standards Australia |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Person (address)—suburb/town/locality name, text A[A(49)] Community Services (retired), Superseded 06/02/2012 Early Childhood, Superseded 09/03/2012 Health!, Superseded 07/12/2011 Homelessness, Standard 23/08/2010 Housing assistance, Superseded 01/05/2013 Is used in the formation of Person (address)—postal delivery point identifier, {N(8)} Community Services (retired), Superseded 25/08/2005 Health!, Superseded 04/05/2005 Is re-engineered from Suburb/town/locality name, version 2, DE, Int. NCSDD & NHDD, NCSIMG & NHIMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (16.1 KB) No registration status |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Health care client identification Health!, Superseded 04/05/2005 |