The NHWDS is a combination of registration and survey data collected through the registration renewal process for registered health practitioners.
Temporal coverage
from 28/4/2011 to 31/10/2017
Geographical coverage
National and state
Data availability
Data scope
Registered Health practitioners in these professions:
Paramedicine to be added from late 2018 (to be available mid 2019)
Methodology
Metadata information, data quality statement (DQS)
Note these DSS refer to the AIHW processed versions and are out of date but contain some useful background information.
NHWD DQS
Note These DSS specification do not cover all of the variables and a number of changes have been made to the survey.
NHWDS DSS
Even the names of the collection are slightly different (now called Workforce rather than Labourforce). Another example is the
Registered health professional—hours worked in public sector, total hours NNN
is now collected for clinical or direct client contact hours rather than total hours.
External links and information
Health workforce
Health workforce data (Department of Health)
Contact
[email protected]
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