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Common Demographic Metadata Dictionary

Definition

This data dictionary defines common data elements of high quality for use across the department.

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 #
Person: First Name - Text - - conditional 1
Person: Last Name - Text - - conditional 1
Person: Date of Birth - Text - - conditional 1
Person: Street Address - Text - - conditional 1
Person: Place of Birth - Text - - conditional 1
Person: State - Text - - conditional 1
Person: Country of Residence - Text - - conditional 1
Person: Occupation - Text - - conditional 1
Person: Marital status - Text - - conditional 1
Person: Gender - Text - - conditional 1
Person: Age - Text - - conditional 1
Person: Working hours - Text - - conditional 1
Person: Time of death - Text - - conditional 1
Person: Primary health care provider - Text - - conditional 1
Person: Fathers country of origin - Text - - conditional 1
Person: Mothers country of origin - Text - - conditional 1
Person: Number of children - Text - - conditional 1
Person: Disability status - Text - - conditional 1
Person: Indigenous status - Text - - conditional 1
Person: Highest level of education - Text - - conditional 1

Related content

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

Contained in the following datasets

  • DSS1
    Statuses: [Demonstration Registration Authority: Standard, Dec. 19, 2022]
    DSS1 definition
    (conditional)