Definition
Self-reported employment status of a person, immediately prior to admission to a public psychiatric hospital, as represented by a code.
Components
Data Element (this item)
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Data Element ConceptPerson—labour force status
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Object ClassPerson
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PropertyLabour force status
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Value DomainPublic psychiatric hospital admission labour force status code N
Representation
This representation is based on the value domain for this data element, more information is available at " Public psychiatric hospital admission labour force status code N ".| Data Type | Number |
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| Format | N |
| Maximum character length | 1 |
| Value | Meaning | Start Date | End Date | |
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| Permissible Values | 1 | Child not at school | ||
| 2 | Student | |||
| 3 | Employed | |||
| 4 | Unemployed | |||
| 5 | Home duties | |||
| 6 | Other |
Comments
Context:
The Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council Health Targets and Implementation Committee (1988) identified socioeconomic status as the most important factor explaining health differentials in the Australian population. The committee recommended that national health statistics routinely identify the various groups of concern. This requires routine recording in all collections of indicators of socioeconomic status. In order of priority, these would be: employment status, income, occupation and education.