Participant: Participant Region Description, Text 0.1

Participant: Participant Region Description, Text

Type: Data Element
Identifiers: UUID - fb157f04-8233-11f0-ab81-0a58a9feac02; Short ID - 14504
Version: 0.1
Stewardship Organisation: Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR)
Endorsed by: Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) - Datasets (for External Public Release) : Standard on April 24, 2026

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Last updated: 15 May 2026
Created: 26 August 2025
Supersedes: None
Superseded by: None
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Workgroup: Employment Services PLIDA Workgroup
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Definition

The name of the employment region that a participant's residential address is located in.

Components

Data Element (this item)

Participant: Participant Region Description, Text

Data Element Concept
Participant: Region Code 0.1
- Object Class
  Participant
- Property
  Region 0.1
Value Domain
Region Description 0.1

Representation

This representation is based on the value domain for this data element, more information is available at " Region Description 0.1 ".

Description
Data Type	VarChar
Format	X[500]
Maximum character length	500

Values

	Value	Meaning	Start Date	End Date
Permissible Values	5ADN	Adelaide North	None	None
	5ADS	Adelaide South	None	None
	5BAL	Ballarat	None	None
	5BWN	Barwon	None	None
	5BDG	Bendigo	None	None
	5BSE	Brisbane South East	None	None
	5BRM	Broome	None	None
	5CAN	Cairns	None	None
	5ACT	Capital Region	None	None
	5CTW	Central West	None	None
	5DDW	Darling Downs	None	None
	5DAR	Darwin (includes Alice Springs)	None	None
	5ESP	Esperance	None	None
	5ORA	Far West Orana (includes Broken Hill)	None	None
	5FTZ	Fitzroy	None	None
	5GRD	Geraldton	None	None
	5GPP	Gippsland	None	None
	5GLC	Gold Coast	None	None
	5GBN	Goulburn/Murray	None	None
	5GSW	Great Southern - Wheatbelt	None	None
	5STH	Hobart and Southern Tasmania	None	None
	5RHN	Hunter	None	None
	5ILW	Illawarra South Coast	None	None
	5MEL	Inner Metropolitan Melbourne	None	None
	5KAL	Kalgoorlie	None	None
	5MAC	Mackay	None	None
	5MDN	Mid North Coast	None	None
	5MSA	Mid North SA	None	None
	5MUR	Murray and South East	None	None
	5MRV	Murray Riverina	None	None
	5ENG	New England and North West	None	None
	5NIS	Norfolk Island	None	None
	5TAS	North and North Western Tasmania	None	None
	5NCT	North Coast	None	None
	5MEE	North Eastern Melbourne	None	None
	5SAC	North West Country SA	None	None
	5MEW	North Western Melbourne	None	None
	5PEN	Perth - North	None	None
	5PEW	Perth - South	None	None
	5SMT	Somerset	None	None
	5VCS	South Coast of Victoria	None	None
	5MPN	South Eastern Melbourne and Peninsula	None	None
	5WAS	South West WA	None	None
	5SYD	Sydney East Metro	None	None
	5SYN	Sydney Greater West	None	None
	5SYW	Sydney North and West	None	None
	5SYS	Sydney South West	None	None
	5TWV	Townsville (includes Mt Isa)	None	None
	5MLW	Western Melbourne	None	None
	5SUN	Wide Bay and Sunshine Coast	None	None
	5WMM	Wimmera Mallee	None	None
	5WVH	Wivenhoe	None	None
	5YAR	Yarrabah	None	None
	NATL	National	None	None
Supplementary Values	UKN	Unknown	None	None

Relation	Count
Input in Derivations	0
Output in Derivations	0
Inclusion in Data Set Specifications	0
Inclusion in Data Distributions	1
Use within a Question	0
As a numerator in an Indicator	0
As a denominator in an Indicator	0
As a disaggregation in an Indicator	0

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