Definition
Registered health professionals listed with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency who were employed in the profession during the reference week. They may be an employee or they may be self-employed.
Metadata items in this Data Set Specification
Below is a list of all the components within this Dataset Specification.
Each entry includes the item name, whether the item is optional, mandatory or conditional and the maximum times the item can occur in a dataset.
If the items must occur in a particular order in the dataset, the sequence number is included before the item name.
| Reference | Data Element | Data Type | Length | Inclusion | # |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Registered health professional—hours worked in health profession, total hours NNN | String | 3 | optional | 1 | |
| Registered health professional—work sector in health profession, code N | Number | 1 | optional | 1 | |
| Registered health professional—work setting, code ANN | Number | 3 | optional | 1 |
Comments
Guide for use:
The data elements in this cluster, when used together, form a matrix of total hours worked distributed across work sector and setting. The matrix assists to describe the supply and distribution of services by health professionals.
The data elements in this cluster include all jobs held in the profession.
References
Related content
| Relation | Count |
|---|---|
| As a numerator in an Indicator | 0 |
| As a denominator in an Indicator | 0 |
| As a disaggregation in an Indicator | 0 |