Data Dictionaries
Birth Registrations
Birth Registration Data Dictionary (Word Doc, 63KB)
Cancer Register
Please contact wacanreg@health.wa.gov.au for the latest version of the Cancer Register Data Dictionary.
Cause of Death Unit Record File (COD URF)
User Guide (Word Doc, 509KB)
Please note: please cross reference the fields in the User Guide, with those available on the Data Linkage Services Variable COD URF list.
Death Registrations
Mortality Data Variable Notes (Word Doc, 101KB)
Electoral Roll
Electoral Roll Data Variables (Word Doc, 43KB)
Emergency Department Data Collection
Emergency Data Variables(Word Doc, 500KB)
Hospital Morbidity Data Collection
- Hospital Morbidity Data Dictionary (Word,369 KB)
- Hospital Morbidity Data Collection Reference Manual – Part A – Data Elements (PDF, 3075KB)
- Hospital Morbidity Data Collection Reference Manual – Part B – Variable Lists (PDF, 2164KB)
- Clinical Coding (external link)
- ICD and DRG Versions (PDF, 41KB)
Mental Health Information System
Midwives Notification System
- Midwives Data Variables, Data Quality Statement and Metadata (external link)
- Notification of Case Attended form (external link)
- Guidelines for Midwives, Notification of Case Attended (PDF, 773KB)
WA Register of Developmental Abnormalities (WARDA) Cerebral Palsy (CP)
WARDA-CP Coding Manual – CP and associated impairments (2018) (PDF, 146KB)
Child Development Service (CDS)
- CDS Data Reference Manual (Word, 420KB)
- Table and Identifier relationships (Word, 63KB)
Data Quality Statements
Linkage Quality Statements
The Data Linkage Branch also maintains a series of Linkage Quality Statements containing information on the core datasets we link:
- Birth Registrations Linkage Quality Statement (PDF, 191KB)
- WA Cancer Registrations Linkage Quality Statement (PDF, 155KB)
- Death Registrations Linkage Quality Statement (PDF, 180KB)
- WA Electoral Enrolments Linkage Quality Statement (PDF, 154KB)
- Emergency Department Data Collection Linkage Quality Statement (PDF, 154KB)
- Mental Health Information System Linkage Quality Statement (PDF, 154KB)
- Midwives Notifications Linkage Quality Statement (PDF, 160KB)
- Hospital Morbidity Data Collection Linkage Quality Statement (PDF, 154KB)
Geocoding Information
- SEIFA and Remoteness Area Notes (Word Doc, 36KB)
- MatchCodes and MatchScores (Word Doc, 29KB)