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Person: Indigenous Status, Grouped Label X(14)

Definition

Aboriginal Status, as represented by a grouped label

Components

Data Element (this item)
Person: Indigenous Status, Grouped Label X(14)

Representation

This representation is based on the value domain for this data element, more information is available at " Indigenous Status FaCS Grouped Label X(14) ".
Description

An Indicator of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander status, expressed via the codes Aboriginal or Non Aboriginal.
Data Type CHARACTERSTRING
Format X(14)
Maximum character length 14
Values
Value Meaning Definition Start Date End Date
Permissible Values Aboriginal The person is Indigenous
Non-Aboriginal The person is not Indigenous
Supplementary Values Not Stated Blank/missing values are grouped under Not Stated
Missing/NA

References

Australian Bureau of Statistics 2014. Indigenous Status Standard Version 1.5, Canberra. Viewed 29 September 2015, http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/
a866861f12e106e0ca256a38002791fa/
5609d66dcc94996eca257d6a000fb3fc!OpenDocument.

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2010. National best practice guidelines for collecting Indigenous status in health data sets. Cat. no. IHW 29. Canberra: AIHW. Viewed 29 September 2015, http://www.aihw.gov.au/publication-detail/?id=6442468342.

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Relation Count
Input in Derivations 0
Output in Derivations 0
Inclusion in Data Set Specifications 0
Inclusion in Data Distributions 11
As a numerator in an Indicator 7
As a denominator in an Indicator 0
As a disaggregation in an Indicator 22