Service event—type of goods and equipment received

Context:

Resource and financial planning:

This provides one measure of the assistance received by a client on an occasion of service. This metadata item does not record an amount of assistance with goods and equipment in the same way that an amount is recorded for the other types of assistance provided by agencies (i.e. in time, quantity or cost). Rather this metadata item indicates the type of goods or equipment that the agency provides to the person on an occasion of service delivery.

Information about the types of goods and equipment provided to clients by agencies facilitates interstate and cross regional comparisons of service provision and comparisons between different client sub-populations.