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Disability services carer details cluster

Definition

This cluster of data elements provides information on carers associated with a client of a specialist disability service reporting to the Disability Services NMDS. The items may be recorded for all carers associated with a client.

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 #
Informal assistance event—activity and participation life area supported, disability code N - - optional 1
Informal carer—average number of days available to provide care, code N - - optional 1
Informal carer—average number of hours available to provide care, hours NN Number 2 optional 1
Informal carer—co-residency status, code N Number 1 optional 1
Informal carer—number of hours of care provided, total hours NNNNN
Specific Information:

This item should be collected with reference to a typical week.

This item should be collected separately for each care recipient, and the total hours of care provided across all care recipients can then be calculated.

 - - optional 1
Informal carer—relationship to care recipient, interpersonal code N[N] - - optional 1
Parent/guardian—receipt of Carer Allowance (Child) indicator, code N Number 1 optional 1
Person (employed)—full-time/part-time status, code N - - optional 1
Person—area of usual residence, statistical area level 2 (SA2) code (ASGS 2011) N(9) String 9 conditional 1
Person—gross income (weekly), total Australian currency N[NNNNN].NN Currency 8 optional 1
Person—labour force status, code N Number 1 optional 1
Person—living arrangement, code N Number 1 optional 1
Person—principal source of cash income, code NNNN Number 4 optional 1

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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Relation Count
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As a denominator in an Indicator 0
As a disaggregation in an Indicator 0