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The Australian Government Department of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Maternity
Information
Matrix

MIM

Details

Baby name

Data Item category

Baby demographics

Collections containing the item

SA Perinatal
ACT Perinatal
NSW Congenital Anomalies
Vic Congenital Anomalies
WA Congenital Anomalies
SA Congenital Anomalies
NCIS Other national
NSW Births
Vic Births
Qld Births
WA Births
SA Births
Tas Births
ACT Births
NT Births
NSW Deaths
Vic Deaths
Qld Deaths
WA Deaths
SA Deaths
Tas Deaths
ACT Deaths
NT Deaths
NSW Perinatal Mortality Review Committees
Vic Perinatal Mortality Review Committees

Data definitions

Definition:
NCIS: only available on baby death record) Legal Names provided. Surname and First Given Name mandatory, Middle name optional - provided when available. Relevant punctuation (i.e. hyphen, apostrophe) included.
Description:
NSW, VIC, QLD, SA, ACT, NT, TAS: Baby given names and surname; WA: Baby given name.

NT Deaths: Surname at birth, Given names at birth.

Additional information

NSW RCA only collects this item for infant notifications. This data item and other items that identify the person are not usually released but may be available for data linkage purposes.

Related items

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