Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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METEOR identifier: | 287172 |
Registration status: | Health!, Standard 04/05/2005 Community Services (retired), Standard 25/08/2005 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 01/11/2012 Early Childhood, Standard 08/04/2013 Indigenous, Standard 11/08/2014 WA Health, Standard 19/03/2015 Disability, Standard 13/08/2015 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 Tasmanian Health, Standard 01/09/2016 Children and Families, Standard 22/11/2016 Youth Justice, Standard 15/02/2022 |
Definition: | Person identifier unique within an establishment or agency. |
Context: | This item could be used for editing at the agency, establishment or collection authority level and, potentially, for record linkage. There is no intention that this item would be available beyond collection authority level. |
Person—person identifier
Data Element Concept Attributes
Object Class attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
Object class: | Person |
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Definition: | A human being. |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Comments: | Prior to 13 March 2018, the definition of the ‘Person’ Object class was ‘A human being, whether man, woman or child’. From 13 March 2018, the definition was edited by removing the words ‘…whether man, woman or child’ so that a person is defined as ‘A human being’. This amendment was undertaken to align the definition of a person with the Australian Government Guidelines on the Recognition of Sex and Gender and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Standard for Sex and Gender Variables, which recognise that there are sex and gender types that are not exclusively male or female. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Origin: | Macquarie University 2003. The Macquarie Dictionary 3rd ed. Sydney: The Macquarie Library Pty. Ltd |
Reference documents: | Attorney-General's Department 2015. Australian Government Guidelines on the Recognition of Sex and Gender. Viewed 26 July 2016, https://www.ag.gov.au/Publications/Pages/ ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics) 2016. Standard for Sex and Gender Variables, 2016. ABS Cat. no. 1200.0.55.012. Canberra: ABS. Viewed 26 July 2016, http://abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/[email protected]/ |
Property attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
Property: | Person identifier |
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Definition: | A sequence of characters which identify a person. |
Property group: | Identifier characteristics |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | National minimum data set working parties |