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Dwelling—suburb/town/locality name, text [A(50)]

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Definition

The full name of the locality contained within the specific address of a dwelling, as represented by text.

Components

Data Element (this item)
Dwelling—suburb/town/locality name, text [A(50)]

Representation

This representation is based on the value domain for this data element, more information is available at " Text A[A(49)] ".
Data Type String
Format A[A(49)]
Maximum character length 50

Comments

Guide for use:

The suburb/town/locality name may be a town, city, suburb or commonly used location name such as a large agricultural property or Aboriginal community.

This metadata item may be used to describe the location of a dwelling. It can be a component of a street or postal address.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has suggested that a maximum field length of 50 characters is sufficient to record the vast majority of locality names.

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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