DATA ELEMENTS AND DATA ELEMENT CONCEPTS
COURT LOCATION
IDENTIFYING AND DEFINITIONAL ATTRIBUTES
Metadata type:
DATA ELEMENT Version: 1
Definition:
The geographical location of the sitting places in which court hearings are held.
Context:
This information can be used to compare court workloads and to profile the types of cases going through a particular Court Location.
RELATIONAL AND REPRESENTATIONAL ATTRIBUTES
Datatype:
Numeric
Field size:
Min: 5 Max: 5
Representational form:
Code
Representational layout:
NNNNN
Data domain:
Court Location consists of 5 characters comprising the following components:
Digit 1 = State/territory code (see State/Territory)
Digits 2, 3 & 4 = Court house (i.e. actual sitting location)
Digit 5 = Court level code (see Court Level)
Guide for use:
Court house codes range from 0 - 999. If the code is less than 3 digits in length, leading zeros are used to fill the remaining digits.
For a listing of higher court house codes, please contact the National Criminal Courts Statistics Unit at <crime.justice@abs.gov.au>.
If a defendant has a status of pending at the end of the reference period, Court Location is coded to the initial court location. If a defendant has a status of finalised, Court Location is coded to the court location at finalisation.
Court hearings conducted by video conference should be coded to the court location of the presiding judge.
Verification rules:
None
Collection methods:
None
Related metadata:
Is derived from the data elements:
State/Territory
Court Level
ADMINISTRATIVE ATTRIBUTES
Source document:
Higher Criminal Courts Collection Manual
Source organisation:
Australian Bureau of Statistics
History:
Commenced 2005
Comments:
None
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