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Data Element Detail

Suburb/town/locality of usual residence
Identifying and Definitional Attributes
QH 040080 v1
Data Element
Data Element
Current
15-Jan-1998		Superseded
23-May-2012
Standard
01-Jul-1984
30-Jun-2012
Name of suburb/town/locality of usual residence.
Suburb/town/locality of usual residence
Representational Attributes
Character
Text
X[X(49)]
1
50
Permissible Values

Permissible_values

-
Supplementary Values

Supplemenary_values

-
Collection and Usage Attributes
The usual residential address is the place where the patient lives. For example, it is not the address where the patient might be staying temporarily before or after the period of hospitalisation.
Used with other elements to determine the Statistical Local Area (SLA) of usual residence. This enables:
- comparison of the use of services by persons residing in different geographical areas,
- characterisation of catchment areas and populations for facilities for planning purposes, and
- documentation of the provision of services to residents of States or Territories other than Queensland.

The Statistical Services Branch (SSB) maintains a corporately standardised file of suburbs, postcodes, states and associated Statistical Local Areas. The content of this locality data set is derived from two main sources, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and Australia Post, with supplementary data supplied by Queensland Health.

The ABS provides annual releases on 1 July each year of the NLI, Street Sub-Index and ASGC data. Quarterly updates are now also received and loaded into CRDS. Australia Post data is downloaded from their website at the same time as the ABS updates are received for synchronisation of data. Ad hoc additions are made to the locality data set as advised by the source organisations.

The most up-to-date locality file and associated documentation are available from the Corporate Reference Data System (CRDS). The CRDS file can be browsed in QHEPS via INTERNAL QH LINK NOT AVAILABLE or an extract can be requested via email crds@health.qld.gov.au.
Relational Attributes
Related Metadata References

Related Metadata References_IR

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ViewRelationshipMetadata Item TypeMetadata Item SubtypeNameIdentifier & VersionApproval Status
Has been superseded byData ElementData ElementPerson (address)-suburb/town/locality of usual residenceQH 040080 Version 2Current
Is used in conjunction withData ElementData ElementAddress of usual residenceQH 040079 Version 1Superseded
Is used in conjunction withData ElementData ElementPostcode of usual residenceQH 040081 Version 3Superseded
Is used in conjunction withData ElementData ElementPostcode of usual residenceQH 040081 Version 2Superseded
Is used in conjunction withData ElementData ElementPostcode of usual residenceQH 040081 Version 1Superseded
Is used in conjunction withData ElementData ElementState of usual residenceQH 040078 Version 1Superseded
Is used in conjunction withData ElementDerived Data ElementStatistical Local Area (SLA) of usual residenceQH 040082 Version 2Retired
Is used in conjunction withData ElementDerived Data ElementStatistical Local Area (SLA) of usual residenceQH 040082 Version 1Superseded
Implementation in Metadata Sets

Implemented

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ViewMetadata Item TypeMetadata Item SubtypeNameIdentifer & VersionObligationApproval StatusEffective FromEffective To
Information AssetData CollectionQueensland Cancer Registry (QCR) Data CollectionQH 020002 Version 1Superseded01-Apr-199730-Jun-2012
Source and Reference Attributes
Address; Locality; Suburb; Usual residence;