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Person-indigenous status (registration, HBCIS)
Identifying and Definitional Attributes
Identifier
QH 041940
Version
1
Metadata Item Type
Data Element
Data Element Type
Data Element
Approval Status
Current
29-May-2014  		Superseded
29-Jun-2015  
Approval Type
Standard
Approving Authority
-
Effective From
01-Jul-2014
Effective To
31-Aug-2015
Definition 
Whether a person identifies as being of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander origin.
Context 
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Short Name
Indigenous status (HBCIS)
Name in Other Contexts
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Representational Attributes
Datatype
Numeric
Representation Class
Code
Format
N(2)
Minimum Character Length
2
Maximum Character Length
2
Permissible Values
CodeDescription
11Aboriginal not Torres Strait Islander
12Torres Strait Islander not Aboriginal
13Both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
14Not Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander
Supplementary Values
CodeDescription
19Not Stated/Unknown
Collection and Usage Attributes
Guide for Use 
Although provision is made for recording unknown Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander origin every effort should be made to determine and record a person's Indigenous status.
Verification Rules
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Collection Methods 
The standard question for Indigenous Status is as follows:

'Are you (is the person) (is (name)) of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander origin?'

Standard response options should be provided to the person to answer the questions (either verbally or on a written form):
-	No
-	Yes, Aboriginal
-	Yes, Torres Strait Islander
-	Yes, both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

(For persons of both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander origin, mark both Yes boxes.) This question is recommended for self-enumerated or interview-based collections.

It is strongly recommended that this question be asked directly wherever possible. This question must always be asked regardless of data collectors' perceptions based on appearance or other factors. The Indigenous status question allows for more than one response. The procedure for coding multiple responses is as follows:
-	If the respondent marks No and either Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, then the response should be coded to either Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander as indicated (i.e. disregard the No response).
-	If the respondent marks both the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander boxes, then their response should be coded to Both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander origin.
-	If the respondent marks all three boxes (No, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander), then the response should be coded to Both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander origin (i.e. disregard the No response)

For Queensland Hospital Admitted Patient Data Collection (QHAPDC) and national reporting of the Person-indigenous status data element the following mapping occurs:
Code 11 Aboriginal not Torres Strait Islander is mapped to code 1 Aboriginal but not Torres Strait Islander origin
Code 12 Torres Strait Islander not Aboriginal is mapped to Torres Strait Islander but not Aboriginal origin
Code 13 Both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander origin is mapped to code 3 Both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander origin
Code 14 Not Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander is mapped to code 4 Neither Aboriginal nor Torres Strait Islander origin
Code 19 Not Stated/Unknown is mapped to code 9 Not stated/unknown
Comment
Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples occupy a unique place in Australian society and culture. In the current climate of reconciliation, accurate and consistent statistics about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are needed in order to plan, promote and deliver essential services, to monitor changes in wellbeing and to account for government expenditure in this area.  
 
The purpose of this data element is to provide information about people who identify as being of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander origin. The following definition, commonly known as 'The Commonwealth definition', was given in a High Court judgement in the case of Commonwealth v Tasmania (1983) 46 ALR 625.  'An Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander is a person of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent who identifies as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander and is accepted as such by the community in which he or she lives'.  
 
There are three components to the Commonwealth definition:
- descent
- self-identification
- community acceptance.  
 
In practice, it is not feasible to collect information on the community acceptance part of this definition in general purpose statistical and administrative collections and therefore standard questions on Indigenous status relate to descent and self-identification only.
Relational Attributes
Related Metadata References
Has been superseded by Person-indigenous status (registration, HBCIS) QH 041940 Version 2
 
Implementation in Metadata Sets
Data Quality Declaration 
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Source and Reference Attributes
Source Organisation 
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Source Document 
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