Country of birth Admin. status: CURRENT Date: 01/07/2005 Reporting status: SUPPORTING AND REPORTING DATA ELEMENT Identifying and definitional attributes Data element type: DATA ELEMENT 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 may be used in conjunction with other data elements, such as Main language spoken at home, to derive more sophisticated measures of access to services by culturally and linguistically diverse sub-groups of the HACC client population. Relational and representational attributes Data type: Numeric Representational form: Code Field size: Min 4 Max: 4 Representational layout: NNNN Data domain: The Standard Australian Classification of Countries 4-digit (individual country) level. ABS Catalogue No. 1269.0. See Appendix for listing of codes. Code 9999 should be used when the country of birth has not been supplied by the client upon request or where insufficient information has been supplied by the client to code the data element. Guide for use: Agencies can use either the main structure of the ABS classification or the more detailed coding index when coding the client’s country of birth. A country is treated as a single unit for classification purposes, even where the country contains other discrete political entities such as states. Verification rules: Collection methods: This data element should be reported for the care recipient, and their carer if applicable, at the beginning of each HACC service episode. Agencies may collect country of birth in a variety of ways. Some agencies may obtain the person’s country of birth by using a question that contains a predetermined list of countries accompanied by an “other (please specify)” category. Other agencies may use an open ended question asking the person to specify their country of birth. Regardless of the exact format used by the agency, Country of birth should be collected in such a way as to allow the information to be coded using the Standard Australian Classification of Countries. A question that only asks the person to identify whether they were born in
Country of birth Admin. status: CURRENT Date: 01/07/2005 Reporting status: SUPPORTING AND REPORTING DATA ELEMENT Identifying and definitional attributes Data element type: DATA ELEMENT 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 may be used in conjunction with other data elements, such as Main language spoken at home, to derive more sophisticated measures of access to services by culturally and linguistically diverse sub-groups of the HACC client population. Relational and representational attributes Data type: Numeric Representational form: Code Field size: Min 4 Max: 4 Representational layout: NNNN Data domain: The Standard Australian Classification of Countries 4-digit (individual country) level. ABS Catalogue No. 1269.0. See Appendix for listing of codes. Code 9999 should be used when the country of birth has not been supplied by the client upon request or where insufficient information has been supplied by the client to code the data element. Guide for use: Agencies can use either the main structure of the ABS classification or the more detailed coding index when coding the client’s country of birth. A country is treated as a single unit for classification purposes, even where the country contains other discrete political entities such as states. Verification rules: Collection methods: This data element should be reported for the care recipient, and their carer if applicable, at the beginning of each HACC service episode. Agencies may collect country of birth in a variety of ways. Some agencies may obtain the person’s country of birth by using a question that contains a predetermined list of countries accompanied by an “other (please specify)” category. Other agencies may use an open ended question asking the person to specify their country of birth. Regardless of the exact format used by the agency, Country of birth should be collected in such a way as to allow the information to be coded using the Standard Australian Classification of Countries. A question that only asks the person to identify whether they were born in