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Person-marital status (HBCIS)
Identifying and Definitional Attributes
Identifier & Version
QH 041941 v1
Metadata Item Type
Data Element
Data Element Type
Data Element
Approval Status
Current
01-Dec-2015
Superseded
15-Mar-2021
Approval Type
Documented
Approving Authority
Effective From
01-Jul-2014
Effective To
30-Jun-2019
Definition
Marital status of the person.
Context
Clinical and administrative purposes
Short Name
Marital status (HBCIS)
Name in Other Contexts
Representational Attributes
Datatype
Alphabetic
Representation Class
Code
Format
A
Minimum Character Length
1
Maximum Character Length
1
Permissible Values
Permissible_values
Code
Description
A
Separated
D
Divorced
F
Defacto
M
Married
NM
Never married
W
Widowed
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Supplementary Values
Supplemenary_values
Code
Description
N
Not stated
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Collection and Usage Attributes
Guide for Use
Refers to the current marital status of a person.
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Verification Rules
Collection Methods
This metadata item collects information on social marital status. The recommended question is:
Do you/Does the person usually live with a partner in a registered or de facto marriage?
Yes, in a registered marriage
Yes, in a de facto marriage
No, never married
No, separated
No, divorced
No, widowed
This data element is mappable to the Person-marital status data element as follows:
Code A Separated is mappable to code 5 Separated
Code D Divorced is mappable to code 4 Divorced
Code F Defacto is mappable to code 2 Married/de facto
Code M Married is mappable to code 2 Married/de facto
Code N Not stated is mappable to code 9 Not stated/unknown
Code NM Never married is mappable to code 1 Never married
Code W Widowed is mappable to code 3 Widowed
Comments
The ABS standards identify two concepts of marital status:
- Registered marital status - defined as whether a person has, or has had, a registered marriage;
- Social marital status - based on a person's living arrangement (including de facto marriages), as reported by the person.
It is recommended that the social marital status concept be collected when information on social support/home arrangements is sought, whereas the registered marital status concept need only be collected where it is specifically required for the purposes of the collection.
While marital status is an important factor in assessing the type and extent of support needs, such as for the elderly living in the home environment, marital status does not adequately address the need for information about social support and living arrangement and other data elements need to be formulated to capture this information.
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Person-marital status (HBCIS)
QH 041941 Version 2
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Source Organisation
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Source Document
METeOR data element: Person-marital status, Identifier 291045, Health standard 04/05/2005
https://meteor.aihw.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/291045/meteorItemView/long
Keywords
Marital status
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