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Perinatal DSS 2012-13

This item has been retired and is not recommended for use by any registration authority.

Definition

The scope of the Perinatal data set specification (DSS) is all births in Australia in hospitals, birth centres and the community. The data set includes information on all births, both live and stillborn, of at least 20 weeks gestation or 400 grams birth weight.

These data have two dimensions, which are the baby and the mother. All data relevant to the birth are conveyed in relation to one of these.

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.

Data Elements
Reference Data Element Data Type Length Inclusion #
Female—number of antenatal care visits, total N[N]
Specific Information:

This item relates to the most recent pregnancy only.

This item is collected for the mother only.

 Number 2 optional 1
Person—area of usual residence, geographical location code (ASGC 2011) NNNNN
Specific Information:
This item is collected for the mother only.
 - - optional 1

Comments

Guide for use:

This data set specification is intended as an interim standard only, in that it should only be used for as long as:

  1. the optional data element Female—number of antenatal care visits, total N[N] is not able to be reported by all jurisdictions, and
  2. the optional data element Person—area of usual residence, geographical location code (ASGC 2011) NNNNN is reported by those jurisdictions that wish to do so.

If jurisdictions are capable of reporting the Number of antenatal care visits data element in their perinatal data from 1 July 2012 then they should do so. It is expected that this data element will become reportable for all jurisdictions from 1 July 2013, in which case it will be included as a mandatory data element in the Perinatal national minimum data set (NMDS) for 2013-2014.

Jurisdictions should only report the ASGC-based geographical location data element if they have a legitimate need to geocode their perinatal data in accordance with both ASGC 2011 and ASGS 2011. It is expected that this data element will be reported by a small number of jurisdictions for the 2012-2013 year only. From 2013-2014 onwards, geographical reporting should be based solely on the ASGS.

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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