Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Abbreviations
    • Summary
  • Body section
    • 1 Introduction
      • How to use this document
      • Why do we need a national collection?
      • Brief history of the national collection
      • Roles and responsibilities
    • 2 Scope of the AODTS–NMDS
      • 2.1 Which agencies?
      • 2.2 Which clients?
      • 2.3 Which activities?
    • 3 What’s new for 2012–13?
      • 3.1 Changes in 2012–13
      • 3.2 The Statistical linkage key 581 (SLK–581)
    • 4 AODTS data items
      • 4.1 Overview of data items in the NMDS
      • 4.2 Key definitions
      • 4.3 Episode-level items
      • 4.4 Establishment-level items
      • 4.5 Episode-level items
      • 4.6 Summary of data element changes
    • 5 Collection procedures, data quality and validation checks
      • 5.1 The ValidataTM tool
      • 5.2 Collation of the national data set
      • 5.3 Data transfer
      • 5.4 Data quality
      • 5.5 AIHW validation checks
    • 6 AODTS–NMDS privacy and data principles
      • 6.1 Introduction
    • 7 Data release guidelines for the AODTS–NMDS
      • 7.1 Purpose
      • 7.2 Background
      • 7.3 Options to access published data
      • 7.4 Options for access to unpublished data
  • End matter
    • Appendixes
      • Appendix A: A history of data element changes
      • Appendix B: Members of the IGCD AODTS–NMDS Working Group
      • Appendix C: Australian Standard Geographical Classification (ASGC)
      • Appendix D: Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS)
      • Appendix E: Standard Australian Classification of Countries 2011
      • Appendix F: Australian Standard Classification of Languages 2011
      • Appendix G: Australian Standard Classification of Drugs of Concern 2011
    • References
    • List of tables
    • List of figures
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