Person: Country of birth, code (SACC 2016) NNNN

Type: Data Element
Identifiers: UUID - 1dc2bbe6-bfeb-11e9-9a10-0242c0a8800a; Registry ID - 659454
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Stewardship Organisation: NSW Dept. Communities and Justice
Endorsed by: FACSIAR Data Governance Committee : Preferred Standard on March 11, 2021

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Last updated: 01 November 2023
Created: 12 May 2017
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Superseded by: None
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Definition

The country in which the person was born, as represented by a code.

Components

Data Element (this item)

Person: Country of birth, code (SACC 2016) NNNN

Data Element Concept
Person: Country of Birth
- Object Class
  Person
- Property
  Country of Birth
Value Domain
Country Code (SACC 2016) NNNN

Representation

This representation is based on the value domain for this data element, more information is available at " Country Code (SACC 2016) NNNN ".

Data Type	NUMBERSTRING
Format	NNNN
Maximum character length	4

Values

	Value	Meaning	Start Date	End Date
Permissible Values	1101	Australia	None	None
	1102	Norfolk Island	None	None
	1199	Australian External Territories nec	None	None
	1201	New Zealand	None	None
	1301	New Caledonia	None	None
	1302	Papua New Guinea	None	None
	1303	Solomon Islands	None	None
	1304	Vanuatu	None	None
	1401	Guam	None	None
	1402	Kiribati	None	None
	1403	Marshall Islands	None	None
	1404	Micronesia Federated States of	None	None
	1405	Nauru	None	None
	1406	Northern Mariana Islands	None	None
	1407	Palau	None	None
	1501	Cook Islands	None	None
	1502	Fiji	None	None
	1503	French Polynesia	None	None
	1504	Niue	None	None
	1505	Samoa	None	None
	1506	Samoa American	None	None
	1507	Tokelau	None	None
	1508	Tonga	None	None
	1511	Tuvalu	None	None
	1512	Wallis and Futuna	None	None
	1513	Pitcairn Islands	None	None
	1599	Polynesia (excludes Hawaii) nec	None	None
	1601	Adelie Land (France)	None	None
	1602	Argentinian Antarctic Territory	None	None
	1603	Australian Antarctic Territory	None	None
	1604	British Antarctic Territory	None	None
	1605	Chilean Antarctic Territory	None	None
	1606	Queen Maud Land (Norway)	None	None
	1607	Ross Dependency (New Zealand)	None	None
	2102	England	None	None
	2103	Isle of Man	None	None
	2104	Northern Ireland	None	None
	2105	Scotland	None	None
	2106	Wales	None	None
	2107	Guernsey	None	None
	2108	Jersey	None	None
	2201	Ireland	None	None
	2301	Austria	None	None
	2302	Belgium	None	None
	2303	France	None	None
	2304	Germany	None	None
	2305	Liechtenstein	None	None
	2306	Luxembourg	None	None
	2307	Monaco	None	None
	2308	Netherlands	None	None
	2311	Switzerland	None	None
	2401	Denmark	None	None
	2402	Faroe Islands	None	None
	2403	Finland	None	None
	2404	Greenland	None	None
	2405	Iceland	None	None
	2406	Norway	None	None
	2407	Sweden	None	None
	2408	Aland Islands	None	None
	3101	Andorra	None	None
	3102	Gibraltar	None	None
	3103	Holy See	None	None
	3104	Italy	None	None
	3105	Malta	None	None
3106	Portugal	None	None
3107	San Marino	None	None
3108	Spain	None	None
3201	Albania	None	None
3202	Bosnia and Herzegovina	None	None
3203	Bulgaria	None	None
3204	Croatia	None	None
3205	Cyprus	None	None
3206	North Macedonia	None	None
3207	Greece	None	None
3208	Moldova	None	None
3211	Romania	None	None
3212	Slovenia	None	None
3214	Montenegro	None	None
3215	Serbia	None	None
3216	Kosovo	None	None
3301	Belarus	None	None
3302	Czechia	None	None
3303	Estonia	None	None
3304	Hungary	None	None
3305	Latvia	None	None
3306	Lithuania	None	None
3307	Poland	None	None
3308	Russian Federation	None	None
3311	Slovakia	None	None
3312	Ukraine	None	None
4101	Algeria	None	None
4102	Egypt	None	None
4103	Libya	None	None
4104	Morocco	None	None
4105	Sudan	None	None
4106	Tunisia	None	None
4107	Western Sahara	None	None
4108	Spanish North Africa	None	None
4111	South Sudan	None	None
4201	Bahrain	None	None
4202	Gaza Strip and West Bank	None	None
4203	Iran	None	None
4204	Iraq	None	None
4205	Israel	None	None
4206	Jordan	None	None
4207	Kuwait	None	None
4208	Lebanon	None	None
4211	Oman	None	None
4212	Qatar	None	None
4213	Saudi Arabia	None	None
4214	Syria	None	None
4215	Turkey	None	None
4216	United Arab Emirates	None	None
4217	Yemen	None	None
5101	Myanmar	None	None
5102	Cambodia	None	None
5103	Laos	None	None
5104	Thailand	None	None
5105	Vietnam	None	None
5201	Brunei Darussalam	None	None
5202	Indonesia	None	None
5203	Malaysia	None	None
5204	Philippines	None	None
5205	Singapore	None	None
5206	Timor-Leste	None	None
6101	China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)	None	None
6102	Hong Kong (SAR of China)	None	None
6103	Macau (SAR of China)	None	None
6104	Mongolia	None	None
6105	Taiwan	None	None
6201	Japan	None	None
6202	Korea Democratic Peoples Republic of (North)	None	None
6203	Korea Republic of (South)	None	None
7101	Bangladesh	None	None
7102	Bhutan	None	None
7103	India	None	None
7104	Maldives	None	None
7105	Nepal	None	None
7106	Pakistan	None	None
7107	Sri Lanka	None	None
7201	Afghanistan	None	None
7202	Armenia	None	None
7203	Azerbaijan	None	None
7204	Georgia	None	None
7205	Kazakhstan	None	None
7206	Kyrgyzstan	None	None
7207	Tajikistan	None	None
7208	Turkmenistan	None	None
7211	Uzbekistan	None	None
8101	Bermuda	None	None
8102	Canada	None	None
8103	St Pierre and Miquelon	None	None
8104	United States of America	None	None
8201	Argentina	None	None
8202	Bolivia	None	None
8203	Brazil	None	None
8204	Chile	None	None
8205	Colombia	None	None
8206	Ecuador	None	None
8207	Falkland Islands	None	None
8208	French Guiana	None	None
8211	Guyana	None	None
8212	Paraguay	None	None
8213	Peru	None	None
8214	Suriname	None	None
8215	Uruguay	None	None
8216	Venezuela	None	None
8299	South America nec	None	None
8301	Belize	None	None
8302	Costa Rica	None	None
8303	El Salvador	None	None
8304	Guatemala	None	None
8305	Honduras	None	None
8306	Mexico	None	None
8307	Nicaragua	None	None
8308	Panama	None	None
8401	Anguilla	None	None
8402	Antigua and Barbuda	None	None
8403	Aruba	None	None
8404	Bahamas	None	None
8405	Barbados	None	None
8406	Cayman Islands	None	None
8407	Cuba	None	None
8408	Dominica	None	None
8411	Dominican Republic	None	None
8412	Grenada	None	None
8413	Guadeloupe	None	None
8414	Haiti	None	None
8415	Jamaica	None	None
8416	Martinique	None	None
8417	Montserrat	None	None
8421	Puerto Rico	None	None
8422	St Kitts and Nevis	None	None
8423	St Lucia	None	None
8424	St Vincent and the Grenadines	None	None
8425	Trinidad and Tobago	None	None
8426	Turks and Caicos Islands	None	None
8427	Virgin Islands British	None	None
8428	Virgin Islands United States	None	None
8431	St Barthelemy	None	None
8432	St Martin (French part)	None	None
8433	Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba	None	None
8434	Curacao	None	None
8435	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	None	None
9101	Benin	None	None
9102	Burkina Faso	None	None
9103	Cameroon	None	None
9104	Cabo Verde	None	None
9105	Central African Republic	None	None
9106	Chad	None	None
9107	Congo Republic of	None	None
9108	Congo Democratic Republic of	None	None
9111	Cote dIvoire	None	None
9112	Equatorial Guinea	None	None
9113	Gabon	None	None
9114	Gambia	None	None
9115	Ghana	None	None
9116	Guinea	None	None
9117	Guinea-Bissau	None	None
9118	Liberia	None	None
9121	Mali	None	None
9122	Mauritania	None	None
9123	Niger	None	None
9124	Nigeria	None	None
9125	Sao Tome and Principe	None	None
9126	Senegal	None	None
9127	Sierra Leone	None	None
9128	Togo	None	None
9201	Angola	None	None
9202	Botswana	None	None
9203	Burundi	None	None
9204	Comoros	None	None
9205	Djibouti	None	None
9206	Eritrea	None	None
9207	Ethiopia	None	None
9208	Kenya	None	None
9211	Lesotho	None	None
9212	Madagascar	None	None
9213	Malawi	None	None
9214	Mauritius	None	None
9215	Mayotte	None	None
9216	Mozambique	None	None
9217	Namibia	None	None
9218	Reunion	None	None
9221	Rwanda	None	None
9222	St Helena	None	None
9223	Seychelles	None	None
9224	Somalia	None	None
9225	South Africa	None	None
9226	Eswatini	None	None
9227	Tanzania	None	None
9228	Uganda	None	None
9231	Zambia	None	None
9232	Zimbabwe	None	None
9299	Southern and East Africa nec	None	None
Supplementary Values	0	Other	None	None
Supplementary Values	3	Not Stated	None	None

Comments

This metadata item is based on the Australian Bureau of Statistics' Country of Birth standard for collecting, processing and presenting country of birth statistics (ABS 2016a).

References

Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) 2016a. Country of Birth Standard, 2016. ABS cat. no. 1200.0.55.004. Canberra: ABS.

ABS 2016b. Standard Australian Classification of Countries (SACC) 2016. ABS cat. no. 1269.0. Canberra: ABS.

Relation	Count
Input in Derivations	1
Output in Derivations	0
Inclusion in Data Set Specifications	2
Inclusion in Data Distributions	12
As a numerator in an Indicator	7
As a denominator in an Indicator	0
As a disaggregation in an Indicator	7

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