Definition
The Public hospital establishment address details data set specification (DSS) is used to collect information pertaining to the address of the hospital establishments reported in the Public hospital establishments NMDS.
The mandatory fields to be reported for address are:
- Establishment—organisation identifier (Australian), NNX[X]NNNNN
- Address—road number 1, road number X[6]
- Address—road name, text X[45]
- Address—road type, code AA[AA]
- Address—suburb/town/locality name, text X[46]
- Address—Australian postcode, code (Postcode datafile) {NNNN}
- Address—Australian state/territory identifier, code AA[A]
All other data elements are to be reported if that data element is a component of the address of the Public hospital establishment.
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 | # |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Address: Address Site Name, Text X(40)
Conditional Inclusion:
Conditional on this component being part of the address of the Public hospital establishment.
|
String | 40 | conditional | 1 | |
| Address: Australian Postcode, (Postcode datafile) NNNN | Number | 4 | mandatory | 1 | |
| Address: Australian State/Territory Identifier, Code N | Number | 1 | mandatory | 1 | |
|
Address—complex road name, text X[X(44)]
Conditional Inclusion:
Conditional on this component being part of the address of the Public hospital establishment.
|
- | - | conditional | 1 | |
|
Address—complex road number 1, road number XXXXXX
Conditional Inclusion:
Conditional on this component being part of the address of the Public hospital establishment.
|
- | - | conditional | 1 | |
|
Address—complex road type, code AA[AA]
Conditional Inclusion:
Conditional on this component being part of the address of the Public hospital establishment.
|
- | - | conditional | 1 | |
|
Address—level number, identifier X[XXXX]
Conditional Inclusion:
Conditional on this component being part of the address of the Public hospital establishment.
|
- | - | conditional | 1 | |
| Address—suburb/town/locality name, text X[X(45)] | - | - | mandatory | 1 | |
| Establishment—organisation identifier (Australian), NNX[X]NNNNN | - | - | mandatory | 1 |
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 |