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Person—age (housing assistance), total years N[NN]

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Definition

The age of the person in years.

Components

Data Element (this item)
Person—age (housing assistance), total years N[NN]

Representation

This representation is based on the value domain for this data element, more information is available at " Housing assistance total years N[NN] ".
Data Type String
Format N[NN]
Maximum character length 3
Values
Value Meaning Start Date End Date
Supplementary Values 000 Less than one year
998 Relevant data not available from the jurisdiction
999 Unknown

Comments

Guide for use:

Record the age in single years (if aged under one year, record as 000).

If year of birth is known (but date of birth is not) use the date 01/01 of the birth year to estimate age. If age (or date of birth) is unknown or not stated, and cannot be estimated, use code 999.

Origin:

ABS: Directory of concepts and standards for social, labour and demographic statistics, 1995

ABS: 1996 Census Dictionary. Cat. No. 2901, 1996

AIHW: Data Standardisation Project for the development of a national unit record public housing data set, 1998

Home and Community Care Data Dictionary, Version 1, 1998

Comments:
In most community services data collections, age in years is often reported rather than derived from the metadata item Person—date of birth, DDMMYYYY. However, Person—date of birth, DDMMYYYY is the preferred method for collection of age data.

References


This content Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Attribution provided as required under the AIHW CC-BY licence.

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