Person—registered/awaiting government payment indicator, yes/no/not stated/inadequately described code N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Registered/awaiting government payment indicator |
METEOR identifier: | 690709 |
Registration status: | Homelessness, Standard 10/08/2018 |
Definition: | An indicator of whether a person has applied for a government benefit, pension or allowance, but is still awaiting their first payment, as represented by a code. |
Data element concept attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Data element concept: | Person—registered/awaiting government payment indicator |
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METEOR identifier: | 690718 |
Registration status: | Homelessness, Standard 10/08/2018 |
Definition: | An indicator of whether a person has applied for a government benefit, pension or allowance, but is still awaiting their first payment. |
Object class: | Person |
Property: | Registered/awaiting government payment indicator |
Value domain attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Value domain: | Yes/no/not stated/inadequately described code N |
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METEOR identifier: | 301747 |
Registration status: | Health!, Standard 21/09/2005 Housing assistance, Standard 10/02/2006 Community Services (retired), Standard 14/02/2006 Early Childhood, Standard 21/05/2010 Homelessness, Standard 23/08/2010 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 01/11/2012 Disability, Standard 07/10/2014 Indigenous, Standard 13/03/2015 Children and Families, Standard 22/11/2016 |
Definition: | A code set representing 'yes', 'no' and 'not stated/inadequately described'. |
Representational attributes | ||
Representation class: | Code | |
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Data type: | Number | |
Format: | N | |
Maximum character length: | 1 | |
Value | Meaning | |
Permissible values: | 1 | Yes |
2 | No | |
Supplementary values: | 9 | Not stated/inadequately described |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | CODE 9 Not stated/inadequately described This code is not for use in primary data collections. |
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Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | This data element may be collected twice: 1. if a person has applied for a government benefit, pension or allowance, and is still awaiting their first payment before the support period starts; and 2. if a person has applied for a government benefit, pension or allowance, and is still awaiting their first payment after the support period commences. |
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Collection methods: | The permissible values for this data element are used to form the response categories to the questions: "Have you applied for a government benefit?"; and "Are you waiting for the benefit?" |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes Person—registered/awaiting government payment indicator, code N Community Services (retired), Standard 19/09/2013 Homelessness, Superseded 10/08/2018 Housing assistance, Standard 01/05/2013 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2019- Homelessness, Standard 10/08/2018 Conditional obligation: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is only collected for clients who report nil income (Code 17) in Person—principal source of cash income, code NNNN. This question establishes whether clients may have applied for a government benefit, pension or allowance, but are still awaiting their first payment. DSS specific information: This data element is collected four times, for the following points in time:
Only one permissible value is selected in each case. This collection records a response of Don't Know (Code 99), which is equivalent to the code Not stated/Inadequately described (Code 9) in the Standard |