Online Data Dictionary (v4)

• Data dictionary general definitions

The online data dictionaries provide information about each of the data items in the AROC data bank. There are separate dictionaries for Australia and New Zealand because the codesets for some of the data items are different e.g. Indigenous Status.

AROC has also produced a data dictionary for clinicians and a separate one for developers.

The clinician’s data dictionary contains clinically relevant information about each of the data items including:

• The definition of the data item
• Why it’s being collected (justification)
• A guide for use- guidelines on how to accurately record the data items
• The codeset

The data dictionary for developers contains technical information to support developers during the build of their respective databases to support the collection of the V4 dataset. It includes information about:

• The data element ID
• Data element short and long name
• Data element type
• Country the data element is being collected for
• Format the data element is to be collected in
• Width
• Position
• Effective and revision dates
• Business rules
• Obligation and
• Related data items.

Download Data Dictionary

• AROC v4 Data Dictionary for Clinicians – AU
• AROC v4 Data Dictionary for Clinicians – NZ
• AROC v4 Data Dictionary for Developers – AU
• AROC v4 Data Dictionary for Developers – NZ