Dwelling—geographic remoteness, classification (ASGC-RA) N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Geographic remoteness |
METEOR identifier: | 491575 |
Registration status: | Housing assistance, Superseded 30/08/2017 |
Definition: | The remoteness of a dwelling, based on the physical road distance to the nearest urban centre and its population size, as represented by a code. |
Data element concept attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Data element concept: | Dwelling—geographic remoteness |
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METEOR identifier: | 491573 |
Registration status: | Housing assistance, Superseded 30/08/2017 |
Definition: | The remoteness of a dwelling, based on the physical road distance to the nearest urban centre and its population size. |
Object class: | Dwelling |
Property: | Geographic remoteness |
Value domain attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Value domain: | Remoteness classification (ASGC-RA) N |
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METEOR identifier: | 466873 |
Registration status: | Community Services (retired), Standard 10/04/2013 Housing assistance, Standard 01/05/2013 Health!, Superseded 21/11/2013 Disability, Standard 13/08/2015 |
Definition: | Australian Standard Geographical Classification-Remoteness Area (ASGC-RA) is a geographical classification which defines locations in terms of remoteness, i.e. the physical distance of a location from the nearest Urban Centre. |
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 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 population centre 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 Geography portal on the ABS website. Information in relation to how ARIA+ scores are calculated for physical locations is available from the National Centre for Social Applications of Geographic Information Systems (GISCA) website. |
Representational attributes | ||
Classification scheme: | Australian Standard Geographical Classification 2010 | |
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Representation class: | Code | |
Data type: | String | |
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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Origin: | Information relating to remoteness is available from the Geography portal on the ABS website: Australian Bureau of Statistics 2011. ABS Geography. Viewed 14 November 2011, http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/home/Geography 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 GISCA website: National Centre for Social Applications of Geographic Information Systems 2011. ARIA - Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia. Viewed 14 November 2011, |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | The remoteness classification of an entity can be derived using characteristics of its physical location, e.g. its postcode or other address details. |
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Origin: | AIHW. Indigenous community housing national data collection manual 2010-11. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Dwelling—geographic remoteness, classification (ASGC-RA) N Housing assistance, Superseded 10/05/2019 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Dwelling address details cluster Housing assistance, Superseded 01/05/2013 DSS specific information: Unknown values are recorded as "U". Indigenous community housing dwelling address details cluster Housing assistance, Superseded 30/08/2017 Indigenous, Standard 01/05/2013 |