National Health Data Dictionary, Version 10, 2001

Limited copies of the National Health Data Dictionary, Version 10, CD are available by request from the National Data Development and Standards Unit, tel. (02) 6244 1054.

Full publication (1.3MB PDF)

• Preliminary material (160K PDF)
  • Foreword
  • Contents
  • Index to data element definitions
  • Alphabetical index to data element definitions
  • Introduction
  • The National Health Data Committee
  • The Knowledgebase - Australia's Health and Community Services Metadata Registry
  • National Minimum Data Sets
  • Version 10
  • Feedback
  • Secretariat contact details
• National Health Information Model (31K PDF)
• National Minimum Data Sets (144K PDF)
• Data element definitions
  • Demographic characteristic (112K PDF)
  • Physical characteristic (150K PDF)
  • Labour characteristic (127K PDF)
  • Lifestyle characteristic (118K PDF)
  • Social characteristic (110K PDF)
  • Accommodation characteristic (90K PDF)
  • Insurance/benefit characteristic (108K PDF)
  • Legal characteristic (88K PDF)
  • State of health and well-being (176K PDF)
  • Functional well-being (118K PDF)
  • Organisation characteristic (110K PDF)
  • Address (97K PDF)
  • Setting (104K PDF)
  • Expenditure (134K PDF)
  • Outcome (96K PDF)
  • Recipient role (108K PDF)
  • Person event (125K PDF)
  • Health and welfare service event (323K PDF)
  • Business statement (176K PDF)
  • Resource (96K PDF)
• Appendixes (239K PDF)
  1. The National Health Data Committee membership
  2. Format for data element definitions - ISO/IEC 11179-based standards
  3. National Health Information Model entity definitions
  4. Cross-classificatory variables - staffing category
  5. Establishment - activity definitions
  6. Establishment - resource use definitions
  7. System-level resource definitions
  8. Data elements listed by previous 'P', 'A', 'E', and 'S' numbers
  9. Data elements - by Knowledgebase number
  10. Data elements - in common with other NMDSs
  11. Subject/key word index to data elements

Additional material

National Health Data Dictionary, Version 10, Corrigendum (141KB PDF)