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Identifying and Definitional Attributes
Representational Attributes
Collection and Usage Attributes
Relational Attributes
Source and Reference Attributes

Country of birth

Identifying and Definitional Attributes

Identifier & Version

QH 040161 v3

Metadata Item Type

Data Element

Data Element Type

Data Element

Approval Status

Current
01-Jul-2001

Superseded
01-Sep-2003

Approval Type

Standard

Approving Authority

Effective From

01-Jul-2001

Effective To

30-Jun-2004

Definition

The country in which the person was born.

Context

Country of birth is important in the study of access to services by different population sub-groups. Country of birth is the most easily collected and consistently reported of possible data items. The item provides a link between the Census of Population and Housing, other ABS statistical collections and regional data collections. Country of birth may be used in conjunction with other data elements such as period of residence in Australia etc to derive more sophisticated measures of access to services by different population sub-groups.

Short Name

Country of birth

Name in Other Contexts

Representational Attributes

Datatype

Numeric Character

Representation Class

Code

Format

N(4)

Minimum Character Length

Maximum Character Length

Permissible Values

Permissible_values


Standard Australian Classification of Countries (SACC) 4-digit (individual country) level. ABS catalogue no. 1269.0 (1998)

Supplementary Values

Supplemenary_values

Collection and Usage Attributes

Guide for Use

A country, even if it comprises of other discrete political entities such as states is treated as a single unit for all data domain purposes. Parts of a political entity are not included in different groups. Thus Hawaii is included in North America (as part of the identified country United States of America), despite being geographically close to and having similar social and cultural characteristics as the units classified to Polynesia

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Verification Rules

Collection Methods

Comments

Relational Attributes

Related Metadata References

Related Metadata References_IR

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View	Relationship	Metadata Item Type	Metadata Item Subtype	Name	Identifier & Version	Approval Status
	Supersedes	Data Element	Data Element	Country of birth	QH 040161 Version 2	Superseded
	Has been superseded by	Data Element	Data Element	Country of birth	QH 040161 Version 4	Superseded

Implementation in Metadata Sets

Implemented

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Metadata Item Type	Metadata Item Subtype	Name	Identifer & Version	Obligation	Approval Status	Effective From	Effective To
Information Asset	Data Collection	Elective Surgery Data Collection (ESDC)	QH 020110 Version 1	Mandatory	Superseded	01-Jul-2001	30-Jun-2004
Information Asset	Data Collection	Emergency Data Collection (EDC)	QH 020159 Version 1	Mandatory	Superseded	01-Jan-2003	30-Jun-2004
Information Asset	Data Collection	Queensland Cancer Registry (QCR) Data Collection	QH 020002 Version 1		Superseded	01-Jul-2001	30-Jun-2004
Information Asset	Data Collection	Queensland Hospital Admitted Patient Data Collection (QHAPDC)	QH 020001 Version 1	Mandatory	Superseded	01-Jul-2001	30-Jun-2004
Information Asset	Data Collection	Queensland Perinatal Data Collection (QPDC)	QH 020003 Version 1	Mandatory	Superseded	01-Jul-2001	30-Jun-2004

Data Quality Declaration

Source and Reference Attributes

Source Organisation

Source Document

Keywords

CRDI; CRDI EDC; CRDI QHAPDC; CRDI QPDC; Country; Nationality;