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Definition

The (calculated) age of the person at the date when the service provider agreed to work with the family.

Components

Data Element (this item)

Representation

This representation is based on the value domain for this data element, more information is available at " Years NNN.NN ".
Description

An Age in Years, with a fractional precision element of 2 decimal places which is 0 padded if not entered. Any value entered will automatically be rounded by the system.

While the Format appears to be normal in the form NNN.NN, they do not use the DECIMAL Data Type. FLOAT64 values are stored in a particular binary format by BigQuery and other SQL systems. For example an age value of 14.25 (14 years and 3 months) is stored natively as a FLOAT64 value of 0x402C800000000000.

Data Type INTEGERNUMBER
Unit Of Measure Year (Y)
Format NNN.NN
Maximum character length 5
Values
Value Meaning Start Date End Date
Supplementary Values 999 Unknown/not stated

Origin

Australian Bureau of Statistics, Standards for Social, Labour and Demographic Variables. Reference through:

http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/
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Relation Count
Input in Derivations 0
Output in Derivations 0
Inclusion in Data Set Specifications 0
Inclusion in Data Distributions 3
As a numerator in an Indicator 0
As a denominator in an Indicator 0
As a disaggregation in an Indicator 0