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- 7.4 Options for access to unpublished data
- 1 Introduction
- 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
- Appendixes