Admitted patient care remoteness classification (ASGS-RA) N
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Metadata item type:![]() | Value Domain |
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METEOR identifier:![]() | 702568 |
Registration status:![]() | Health!, Standard 06/09/2018 |
Definition:![]() | Australian Statistical Geography Standard-Remoteness Area (ASGS-RA) is a geographical classification which defines locations in terms of remoteness, i.e. the physical road distance of a location from the nearest Service Centre (a populated locality where the population is greater than 1,000 persons), within population size categories. |
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 population 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 populated locality 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 Statistical Geography portal on the ABS website. Information in relation to how ARIA+ scores are calculated for physical locations is available from the Hugo Centre for Migration and Population Research website. |
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Submitting organisation:![]() | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Origin:![]() | Information relating to remoteness and other aspects of statistical geography is available from the Statistical Geography portal on the ABS website: Australian Bureau of Statistics 2016. ABS Geography. Viewed 15 August 2018, http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/ Information relating to the development of the ARIA and ARIA+ scores by the Australian Population and Migration Research Centre (APMRC) within the National Centre for Social Applications of Geographic Information Systems (GISCA) at the University of Adelaide is available from the APMRC website: Australian Population and Migration Research Centre 2013. ARIA - Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia. Viewed 15 August 2018, https://www.adelaide.edu.au/hugo-centre/spatial_data/aria/ |
Revision status:![]() | The 2016 ASGS is the second edition of the ASGS, which updates the first edition (introduced in 2011) for growth and change in Australia's population, economy and infrastructure. It also incorporates the Territory of Norfolk Island for the first time. |
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Related metadata references:![]() | Supersedes Admitted patient care remoteness classification (ASGS-RA) N Health!, Superseded 06/09/2018 See also Remoteness classification (ASGS-RA) N Health!, Standard 06/09/2018 Housing assistance, Standard 10/05/2019 |
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Classification scheme:![]() | Australian Statistical Geography Standard 2016 |
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METEOR identifier:![]() | 659352 |
Definition:![]() | The Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) is the geographical framework defined by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) for disseminating geographically classified statistics. |
Registration status:![]() | Tasmanian Health, Standard 27/06/2017 Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired), Standard 20/06/2018 Early Childhood, Standard 24/07/2018 Housing assistance, Standard 10/05/2019 Children and Families, Standard 20/01/2021 Health!, Superseded 20/10/2021 |
Context:![]() | The ASGS provides a common framework of statistical geography that enables the publication of statistics that are comparable and geospatially integrated. It provides users with a coherent set of standard regions so that they can access, visualise, analyse and understand statistics. |
Classification structure:![]() | The ASGS is a hierarchical framework of regions. Its classification structures are split into two broad groups, the ABS Structures and the Non-ABS Structures. The ABS Structures are hierarchies of regions defined and maintained by the ABS. The regions that comprise the ABS Structures will remain unchanged until the next anticipated edition of the ASGS in 2021, which is timed for use in the next anticipated Census of Population and Housing in 2021. The ABS Structures are built directly from mesh blocks. Non-ABS Structures are approximated by either Mesh Blocks, the Statistical Areas Level 1 (SA1), or the Statistical Areas Level 2 (SA2). The ABS Structures comprise six interrelated hierarchies of regions. They are:
The Non ABS Structures comprise eight hierarchies of regions which are not defined or maintained by the ABS, but for which the ABS is committed to providing a range of statistics. They generally represent administrative regions and are approximated by Mesh Blocks, SA1s or SA2s. They are:
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Submitting organisation:![]() | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Origin:![]() | Australian Bureau of Statistics 2016. Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS): Volume 1 - Main Structure and Greater Capital City Statistical Areas July 2016. ABS cat. no. 1270.0.55.001. Canberra: ABS. |