Description:

Set up in 2007 to inform the Director of Mental Health annual report. The PRIMHD data was not good enough to be used for the annual report. And there’s additional data captured that sit within PRIMHD.

Additional information:

Have_(encrypted)_NHI No
Personally identifiable (e.g. linked to NHI numbers) and longitudinal or aggregated (e.g. for planning, clinical research etc.)? No
Scope National
Does the data contain diagnoses and clinical outcomes? Does the data contain procedures, device information and medication for therapy? Does this data set have cost / price data? Info about the health conditions people have (e.g. diagnosis data)? No. Cost/price data? No
Presence of Data dictionary? Column headings in Excel or any kind of data model if residing in a relational database (e.g. Access, SQL Server, Oracle etc.) Project underway to develop a standardised classification system.
How often does this data set get updated? Daily? Weekly? Monthly? Quarterly? Yearly? six monthly
Brief info about the systems and processes used to collect/manage data. Q: Where the data is collected, in what form, and accessibility? The data comes from both NGOs and DHBs
Data format, e.g., data structure, data types, and storage form (relational database, Excel, csv, etc.). Raw Data
How well the data is structured, e.g. free text VS coded text VS pick-list (drop-down list) Data format - numeric or character? Numeric