The rural-urban commuting area codes (RUCA) classify U.S. census tracts using measures of urbanization, population density, and daily commuting from the decennial census. The most recent RUCA codes are based on data from the 2000 decennial census. The classification contains two levels. Whole numbers (1-10) delineate metropolitan, micropolitan, small town, and rural commuting areas based on the size and direction of the primary (largest) commuting flows. These 10 codes are further subdivided to permit stricter or looser delimitation of commuting areas, based on secondary (second largest) commuting flows. The approach errs in the direction of more codes, providing flexibility in combining levels to meet varying definitional needs and preferences. The 1990 codes are similarly defined. However, the Census Bureau's methods of defining urban cores and clusters changed between the two censuses. And, census tracts changed in number and shapes. The 2000 rural-urban commuting codes are not directly comparable with the 1990 codes because of these differences. An update of the Rural-Urban Commuting Area Codes is planned for late 2013.

The 2013 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes form a classification scheme that distinguishes metropolitan counties by the population size of their metro area, and nonmetropolitan counties by degree of urbanization and adjacency to a metro area. The official Office of Management and Budget (OMB) metro and nonmetro categories have been subdivided into three metro and six nonmetro categories. Each county in the U.S. is assigned one of the 9 codes. This scheme allows researchers to break county data into finer residential groups, beyond metro and nonmetro, particularly for the analysis of trends in nonmetro areas that are related to population density and metro influence. The Rural-Urban Continuum Codes were originally developed in 1974. They have been updated each decennial since (1983, 1993, 2003, 2013), and slightly revised in 1988. Note that the 2013 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes are not directly comparable with the codes prior to 2000 because of the new methodology used in developing the 2000 metropolitan areas. See the Documentation for details and a map of the codes. An update of the Rural-Urban Continuum Codes is planned for mid-2023.

CLICK ON THE ABOVE IMAGE TO LAUNCH THE MAP - Healthcare access issues vary greatly between urban and rural areas of New Mexico. Launch the map to explore alternate ways to classify geographies as urban or rural. These classifications are often used for food access as well as healthcare access.BIBLIOGRAPHY WITH LINKS:US Census Bureau, Urban Area - Urban Cluster FAQ - https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/reference/ua/2010ua_faqs.pdfAre the problems with Rural areas actually just a result of definitions that change?: "When a rural county grows, it transmutes into an urban one." - The real (surprisingly comforting) reason rural America is doomed to decline, https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/05/24/real-surprisingly-comforting-reason-rural-america-is-doomed-decline/ (See also the complete study - http://programme.exordo.com/2018annualmeeting/delegates/presentation/130/ )Rural Definitions for Health Policy, Harvey Licht, a presentation for the University of New Mexico Center for Health Policy: : http://nmcdc.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=7076f283b8de4bb69bf3153bc42e0402Rural Definitions for Health Policy, update of 2019, Harvey Licht, a presentation to the NMDOH Quarterly Epidemiology Meeting, November, 2019 - http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=a60a73f4e5614eb3ab01e2f96227ce4bNew Mexico Rural-Urban Counties Comparison Tables - October 2017, Harvey Licht, A preliminary compilation for the National Conference of State Legislators Rural Health Plan Taskforce : https://nmcdc.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=d3ca56e99f8b45c58522b2f9e061999eNew Mexico Rural Health Plan - Report of the Rural Health Planning Workgroup convened by the NM Department of Health 2018-2019 - http://nmcdc.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=d4b9b66a5ca34ec9bbe90efd9562586aFrontier and Remote Areas Zip Code Map - http://nmcdc.maps.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=56b4005256244499a58f863c17bbac8aHOUSING ISSUES, RURAL & URBAN, 2017 - http://nmcdc.maps.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=3e3aeabc04ac4672994e25a1ec94df83FURTHER READING:What is Rural? Rural Health Information Hub: https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/topics/what-is-ruralDefining Rural. Research and Training Center on Disability in Rural Communities: http://rtc.ruralinstitute.umt.edu/resources/defining-rural/What is Rural? USDA: https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/rural-economy-population/rural-classifications/what-is-rural/National Center for Health Statistics Urban–Rural Classification Scheme: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data_access/urban_rural.htm.Health-Related Behaviors by Urban-Rural County Classification — United States, 2013, CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/ss/ss6605a1.htm?s_cid=ss6605a1_wExtending Work on Rural Health Disparities, The Journal of Rural Health: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jrh.12241/fullMinority Populations Driving Community Growth in the Rural West, Headwaters Economics: https://headwaterseconomics.org/economic-development/trends-performance/minority-populations-driving-county-growth/ Methodology - https://headwaterseconomics.org/wp-content/uploads/Minorities_Methods.pdfThe Role of Medicaid in Rural America, Kaiser Family Foundation: http://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/the-role-of-medicaid-in-rural-america/The Future of the Frontier: Water, Energy & Climate Change in America’s Most Remote Communities: http://frontierus.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/FUTURE-OF-THE-FRONTIER_Final-Version_Spring-2017.pdfRural and Urban Differences in Passenger-Vehicle–Occupant Deaths and Seat Belt Use Among Adults — United States, 2014, CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/ss/ss6617a1.htm

This file provides a rural-urban view of 2001 Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOA) in England and Wales. The ZIP file contains the Rural Urban Classification in XLSX and CSV format and includes a user guide. The files were originally from the NeSS website. Click on the Download button to download the ZIP file.The classification of rural and urban areas is the outcome of a project co-sponsored by:Office for National Statistics (ONS);Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra);Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (now Communities and Local Government);Countryside Agency (CA); andNational Assembly for Wales (NAW).The classification was developed in 2004 by a consortium co-ordinated by Prof. John Shepherd from Birkbeck College. The technical work was lead by Peter Bibby of University of Sheffield and the project also involved the University of Glamorgan and Geowise. The rural and urban classification of Output Areas, Super Output Areas (this dataset) and Wards has been provided to enable datasets to be analysed according to the classification. This provides a powerful tool for the development and monitoring of rural and urban policies.Please Note: Super Output Areas do not have all the same codes as the OA level Dataset. For SOAs and Wards the classifications for ‘Villages, Hamlets and Isolated Dwellings’ have been combined.Similar procedures to those used to classify Output Areas apply to the classification for the 34,378 Lower Layer Super Output Areas in the dataset. However the morphological classification differs in the number of categories as very few LSOAs can be classified as predominantly dispersed settlements. LSOAs are categorised into just three domains: urban 10k, town and fringe and villages, hamlets and isolated dwellings, using the key below:2005 Rural and Urban morphology indicator1 - denotes predominantly urban >10k2 - denotes predominantly town and fringe3 - denotes other rural (including village, hamlet and isolated dwellings)2005 Rural and Urban context indicator0 - denotes less sparsely populated areas1 - denotes sparsely populated areas

The Postal Code Conversion File (PCCF) provides a link between the six character postal code and the standard geographical areas for which Statistics Canada produces data. To obtain the postal code conversion file or for questions, consult the DLI contact at your educational institution. This version of the PCCF represents postal codes as of November 1984 and the Standard Geographical Classification and other geographic areas of the 1981 Census as of January 1, 1981. In April 1983, the Geography Division released the first version of the Postal Code Conversion File, which linked postal codes to census geographic areas and included geographic coordinates. Since then, the file has been updated on a regular basis to reflect postal code changes provided by Canada Post Corporation.

Data and R code for measuring state and district public opinion in 2008 with a kriging model. Survey data are from the 2008 Cooperative Congressional Election Study. Geographic data include shapefiles, ZIP code centroids and attributes, and USDA urban-rural classifications. Demographic data are drawn from Census data and the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies' 2000 Religious Congregations and Membership Study.

Background: Cervical artery dissection (CeAD) is a leading cause of stroke in young adults. Incidence estimates may be limited by under- or overdiagnosis. Objective: We aimed to investigate if CeAD diagnosis would be higher in urban centers compared to rural regions of New York State (NYS). Methods: For this ecological study, administrative codes were used to identify CeAD discharges in the NYS Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System (SPARCS) from 2009 to 2014. Rural Urban Commuting Area (RUCA) codes were taken from the US Department of Agriculture and included the classifications metropolitan, micropolitan, small town, and rural. Negative binomial models were used to calculate effect estimates and 95% confidence limits (eβ; 95% CL) for the association between RUCA classification and the number of dissections per ZIP code. Models were further adjusted by population. Results: Population information was obtained from the US Census Bureau on 1,797 NYS ZIP codes (70.7% of NYS ZIP codes), 826 of which had at least 1 CeAD-related discharge from 2009 to 2014. Nonrural ZIP codes were more likely to report more CeAD cases relative to rural areas even after adjusting for population (metropolitan effect = eβ 5.00; 95% CI: 3.75–6.66; micropolitan effect 3.02; 95% CI: 2.16–4.23; small town effect 2.34; 95% CI: 1.58–3.47). Conclusions: CeAD diagnosis correlates with population density as defined by rural-urban status. Our results could be due to underdiagnosis in rural areas or overdiagnosis with increasing urbanicity.

Location of public health facilities generated from the Western Cape Department of Health's Sinjani database Master Data Systems (MDS) view. The dataset ( DOH_Facilities_PublicHealthSites) is updated on a weekly basis via a scheduled Python script. A definition query on DOH_Facilities_PublicHealthSites defines Support Facilities as (Classification = 'EMS Station' or Classification = 'Environmental Health Office' or Classification = 'Forensic Pathology Service' )Publication DateFeature layer updated daily from Sinjani MDS viewAttribute DefinitionsOBJECTID: Internal feature number.NAT_CODE: Six digit unique code obtained from the National Department of Health for facilities. The code is generated by the DHIS system.This code is used in the Mom Connect project.ID: Sinjani Internal facility identifierNAME: Name that the organisational unit is registered on Sinjani with. It may differ from actual name in the case of private facilities in order to standardise naming conventions on the system.DISTRICT_ID: Sinjani Internal district identifierDISTRICT: District that the facility falls within based on the gazetted health boundaries. District is between province and sub-district in the organisational unit hierarchy. In the Metro, 2 sub-districts form 1 Sub-structure (NTSS = Northern and Tygerberg; KESS = Khayelitsha and Eastern; KMSS = Klipfontein and Mitchells Plain; SWSS = Southern and Western).SUB_DISTRICT_ID: Sinjani Internal sub-district identifierSUB_DISTRICT: Sub-district that the facility falls within based on the gazetted health boundaries. Sub-district is between facility and district in the organisational unit hierarchy. In the Metro, 2 sub-districts form 1 Sub-structure (NTSS = Northern and Tygerberg; KESS = Khayelitsha and Eastern; KMSS = Klipfontein and Mitchells Plain; SWSS = Southern and Western).DATEIN: The date on which the facility was/will be in use by the department. This could be either active (operational and reporting) or non-reporting (operational but not reporting).DATEOUT: The date after which the facility will not be in use by the department. The facility has therefore suspended operations.STATUS_CODE: Internal Sinjani unique status identifier.LONGITUDE:Longitude values in decimal degrees.CLASSIFICATION_ID: Internal Sinjani unique classification identifier.CLASSIFICATION: Facility classification refers to the type of facility. The classification is determined by the services that are offered, the hours the facility is open, whether it is private of public.CATEGORY_ID: Internal Sinjani unique category identifier.CATEGORY: Facility category refers to the groupSHORT_NAME: Facility short name generated by DHIS. Often used in reports to reduce space used.AUTHORITY: Facility authority refers to who managers, funds and resources the facility. This may be different to who owns the property.EMAIL: The main email address of the facility that will be routed to the intended recipientCONTACT_NAME: Name of person who is the head of the facility.AUTHORITY_ID: Internal Sinjani unique authority identifier.LATITUDE: Latitude values in decimal degreesASSOCIATED_FACILITY: The associated facility is the public health facility that the school is associated with. Association means that the health facility is responsible for the services provided at the school.ASSOCIATED_FACILITY_CODE: Internal Sinjani unique associated facility short code.URBAN_CODE: Internal Sinjani unique urban identifier. URBAN Environmental classification as Urban, Rural or Peri-Urban.HEALTH_FACILITY_SHORT_CODE: Three digit unique code generated by Sinjani system. This code is used in all health systems to identify facilities.SHAPE :Feature geometry.EMIS: Unique code for each school generated by Department of Education.TELNO: The main phone number of the facility e.g. switchboard that will be routed to the intended recipientQUINTILE_ID: Internal Sinjani unique school quintile identifier.QUINTILE_NAME: The quintile that a school is allocated to. The options are: Quintile 1; Quintile 2; Quintile 3; Quintile 4; Quintile 5POSTAL_CODE: Postal code of the address to which mail may be delivered Postal code per suburb as per the master reference postal box code list: List of South African postal codes as published by the South African Post Office. Available at the following link: https://www.postoffice.co.za/Questions/postalcode.html or in the document named South African Postal Codes Master Reference List v1.0. Excludes street codes used for physical addresses. For informal addresses use the postal code of the nearest city/town. For international addresses free text is allowed.TIER: The ART capturing system in use by facilities.OLD_ADDRESS: Lines 1-4 of the physcial address - concatenatedPO_BOX_OR_PRIVATE_BAG: Lines 1-4 of the address to which mail may be deliveredPOSTAL_SUBURB_OR_TOWN: Town or suburb of the address to which mail may be deliveredTOWN: Physical address. City or Town name as per the Area column in the master reference postal code list. For informal addresses this needs to be the nearest town/city. For international addresses free text is allowed.ADDRESS_TYPE: Physical address. Type of address as per SANS 1883-1:2009. Options are: Building; Farm; Informal; PO Box/Private Bag; SAPO poste restante; Site; StreetSTREET_NUMBER: Physical address. Number of the unit, farm on the street.STREET_NAME: Physical address. Name of the street or road. For farm or site type addresses, use a road name, e.g. R364.SUBURB: Physical address. Suburb name as per the Suburb column in the master reference postal code list. For farm type addresses record the District name. For international addresses free text is allowed.DHIS_UID: Unique identifier generated by the DHIS system (NDOH system) for each facility.PROVINCE: Physical address. Name of the province as per the Master Province Reference Data list. For international addresses free text is allowed.STREET_POSTAL_CODE: Physical address. Postal code per suburb as per the master reference postal street code list: List of South African postal codes as published by the South African Post Office. Available at the following link: https://www.postoffice.co.za/Questions/postalcode.html or in the document named South African Postal Codes Master Reference List v1.0. Excludes box codes used for postal box type addresses. For informal addresses use the postal code of the nearest city/town. For international addresses free text is allowed.OPEN_DAYS: The days of the week that the facility is open / operating.OPEN_TIME: The hours of the day that the facility is open / operating.THROUGHPUT_REPORT_REQUIRED: An indicator to flag a facility accordig to whether it requires a throughput report (summary report of Clinicom data) to be generated by the BI system or not.SUBSTRUCT: The grouping of two sub-districts within the Cape Town Metropolitan district according to the organisational and management structure. Only applicable to the Cape Town Metro district. KESS = Khayelitsha and Eastern sub-districtsNTSS = Northern and Tygerberg sub-dsitrictsSWSS = Southern and Western sub-districtsKMPSS = Mitchells Plain and Klipfontein sub-districtsN/A (Rural) = Applied to all rural sub-districtsMETRO_RURAL: The grouping of districts into Metro Health Services (MHS) and Rural Health Services (RHS) according to the organisational and management structure. Metro = City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality Rural = Cape Winelands District Municipality; Central Karoo District Municipality; Garden Route District Municipality; Overberg District Municipality; West Coast District MunicipalityDATE_MODIFIED: The date when the facility data was most recently modified in the systemStatus: Includes only records with a Status = 'A' (active) Status of the facility in terms of whether it is operating or not and whether it is submitting data on Sinjani Active - facility is actively submitting data on Sinjani AND is operational. Data is expected on a routine basis. Absence of data results in a missing data report. Suspended - facility is no longer actively submitting data on Sinjani AND is not operational. Not reporting - facility is not actively submitting data on Sinjani, BUT remains operational.

Location of public health facilities generated from the Western Cape Department of Health's Sinjani database Master Data Systems (MDS) view. The dataset ( DOH_Facilities_PublicHealthSites) is updated on a weekly basis via a scheduled Python script. A definition query on DOH_Facilities_PublicHealthSites defines Clinics and Community Day Centers as (Classification = 'Clinic' or Classification = 'Community Day Centre' or Classification = 'Community Health Centre' or Classification = 'Community Health Centre / After hours' or Classification = 'Community Health Centre / Clinic' or Classification = 'Mobile Service' or Classification = 'Satellite Clinic' or Classification = 'Health Post' or Classification = 'Sickbay')Includes facilities of the City of Cape TownPublication DateFeature layer updated daily from Sinjani MDS viewAttribute DefinitionsOBJECTID: Internal feature number.NAT_CODE: Six digit unique code obtained from the National Department of Health for facilities. The code is generated by the DHIS system.This code is used in the Mom Connect project.ID: Sinjani Internal facility identifierNAME: Name that the organisational unit is registered on Sinjani with. It may differ from actual name in the case of private facilities in order to standardise naming conventions on the system.DISTRICT_ID: Sinjani Internal district identifierDISTRICT: District that the facility falls within based on the gazetted health boundaries. District is between province and sub-district in the organisational unit hierarchy. In the Metro, 2 sub-districts form 1 Sub-structure (NTSS = Northern and Tygerberg; KESS = Khayelitsha and Eastern; KMSS = Klipfontein and Mitchells Plain; SWSS = Southern and Western).SUB_DISTRICT_ID: Sinjani Internal sub-district identifierSUB_DISTRICT: Sub-district that the facility falls within based on the gazetted health boundaries. Sub-district is between facility and district in the organisational unit hierarchy. In the Metro, 2 sub-districts form 1 Sub-structure (NTSS = Northern and Tygerberg; KESS = Khayelitsha and Eastern; KMSS = Klipfontein and Mitchells Plain; SWSS = Southern and Western).DATEIN: The date on which the facility was/will be in use by the department. This could be either active (operational and reporting) or non-reporting (operational but not reporting).DATEOUT: The date after which the facility will not be in use by the department. The facility has therefore suspended operations.STATUS_CODE: Internal Sinjani unique status identifier.LONGITUDE:Longitude values in decimal degrees.CLASSIFICATION_ID: Internal Sinjani unique classification identifier.CLASSIFICATION: Facility classification refers to the type of facility. The classification is determined by the services that are offered, the hours the facility is open, whether it is private of public.CATEGORY_ID: Internal Sinjani unique category identifier.CATEGORY: Facility category refers to the groupSHORT_NAME: Facility short name generated by DHIS. Often used in reports to reduce space used.AUTHORITY: Facility authority refers to who managers, funds and resources the facility. This may be different to who owns the property.EMAIL: The main email address of the facility that will be routed to the intended recipientCONTACT_NAME: Name of person who is the head of the facility.AUTHORITY_ID: Internal Sinjani unique authority identifier.LATITUDE: Latitude values in decimal degreesASSOCIATED_FACILITY: The associated facility is the public health facility that the school is associated with. Association means that the health facility is responsible for the services provided at the school.ASSOCIATED_FACILITY_CODE: Internal Sinjani unique associated facility short code.URBAN_CODE: Internal Sinjani unique urban identifier. URBAN Environmental classification as Urban, Rural or Peri-Urban.HEALTH_FACILITY_SHORT_CODE: Three digit unique code generated by Sinjani system. This code is used in all health systems to identify facilities.SHAPE :Feature geometry.EMIS: Unique code for each school generated by Department of Education.TELNO: The main phone number of the facility e.g. switchboard that will be routed to the intended recipientQUINTILE_ID: Internal Sinjani unique school quintile identifier.QUINTILE_NAME: The quintile that a school is allocated to. The options are: Quintile 1; Quintile 2; Quintile 3; Quintile 4; Quintile 5POSTAL_CODE: Postal code of the address to which mail may be delivered Postal code per suburb as per the master reference postal box code list: List of South African postal codes as published by the South African Post Office. Available at the following link: https://www.postoffice.co.za/Questions/postalcode.html or in the document named South African Postal Codes Master Reference List v1.0. Excludes street codes used for physical addresses. For informal addresses use the postal code of the nearest city/town. For international addresses free text is allowed.TIER: The ART capturing system in use by facilities.OLD_ADDRESS: Lines 1-4 of the physcial address - concatenatedPO_BOX_OR_PRIVATE_BAG: Lines 1-4 of the address to which mail may be deliveredPOSTAL_SUBURB_OR_TOWN: Town or suburb of the address to which mail may be deliveredTOWN: Physical address. City or Town name as per the Area column in the master reference postal code list. For informal addresses this needs to be the nearest town/city. For international addresses free text is allowed.ADDRESS_TYPE: Physical address. Type of address as per SANS 1883-1:2009. Options are: Building; Farm; Informal; PO Box/Private Bag; SAPO poste restante; Site; StreetSTREET_NUMBER: Physical address. Number of the unit, farm on the street.STREET_NAME: Physical address. Name of the street or road. For farm or site type addresses, use a road name, e.g. R364.SUBURB: Physical address. Suburb name as per the Suburb column in the master reference postal code list. For farm type addresses record the District name. For international addresses free text is allowed.DHIS_UID: Unique identifier generated by the DHIS system (NDOH system) for each facility.PROVINCE: Physical address. Name of the province as per the Master Province Reference Data list. For international addresses free text is allowed.STREET_POSTAL_CODE: Physical address. Postal code per suburb as per the master reference postal street code list: List of South African postal codes as published by the South African Post Office. Available at the following link: https://www.postoffice.co.za/Questions/postalcode.html or in the document named South African Postal Codes Master Reference List v1.0. Excludes box codes used for postal box type addresses. For informal addresses use the postal code of the nearest city/town. For international addresses free text is allowed.OPEN_DAYS: The days of the week that the facility is open / operating.OPEN_TIME: The hours of the day that the facility is open / operating.THROUGHPUT_REPORT_REQUIRED: An indicator to flag a facility accordig to whether it requires a throughput report (summary report of Clinicom data) to be generated by the BI system or not.SUBSTRUCT: The grouping of two sub-districts within the Cape Town Metropolitan district according to the organisational and management structure. Only applicable to the Cape Town Metro district. KESS = Khayelitsha and Eastern sub-districtsNTSS = Northern and Tygerberg sub-dsitrictsSWSS = Southern and Western sub-districtsKMPSS = Mitchells Plain and Klipfontein sub-districtsN/A (Rural) = Applied to all rural sub-districtsMETRO_RURAL: The grouping of districts into Metro Health Services (MHS) and Rural Health Services (RHS) according to the organisational and management structure. Metro = City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality Rural = Cape Winelands District Municipality; Central Karoo District Municipality; Garden Route District Municipality; Overberg District Municipality; West Coast District MunicipalityDATE_MODIFIED: The date when the facility data was most recently modified in the systemStatus: Includes only records with a Status = 'A' (active) Status of the facility in terms of whether it is operating or not and whether it is submitting data on Sinjani Active - facility is actively submitting data on Sinjani AND is operational. Data is expected on a routine basis. Absence of data results in a missing data report. Suspended - facility is no longer actively submitting data on Sinjani AND is not operational. Not reporting - facility is not actively submitting data on Sinjani, BUT remains operational.

Location of public health facilities generated from the Western Cape Department of Health's Sinjani database Master Data Systems (MDS) view. The dataset ( DOH_Facilities_PublicHealthSites) is updated on a weekly basis via a scheduled Python script. A definition query on DOH_Facilities_PublicHealthSites defines Intermediate Care Facilities as (Classification = 'Home Based Care' or Classification = 'Hospice unit' or
Classification = 'Step Down Facility' or Classification = 'Intermediate Care' or Classification = 'Frail Care Centre')Publication DateFeature layer updated daily from Sinjani MDS viewAttribute DefinitionsOBJECTID: Internal feature number.NAT_CODE: Six digit unique code obtained from the National Department of Health for facilities. The code is generated by the DHIS system.This code is used in the Mom Connect project.ID: Sinjani Internal facility identifierNAME: Name that the organisational unit is registered on Sinjani with. It may differ from actual name in the case of private facilities in order to standardise naming conventions on the system.DISTRICT_ID: Sinjani Internal district identifierDISTRICT: District that the facility falls within based on the gazetted health boundaries. District is between province and sub-district in the organisational unit hierarchy. In the Metro, 2 sub-districts form 1 Sub-structure (NTSS = Northern and Tygerberg; KESS = Khayelitsha and Eastern; KMSS = Klipfontein and Mitchells Plain; SWSS = Southern and Western).SUB_DISTRICT_ID: Sinjani Internal sub-district identifierSUB_DISTRICT: Sub-district that the facility falls within based on the gazetted health boundaries. Sub-district is between facility and district in the organisational unit hierarchy. In the Metro, 2 sub-districts form 1 Sub-structure (NTSS = Northern and Tygerberg; KESS = Khayelitsha and Eastern; KMSS = Klipfontein and Mitchells Plain; SWSS = Southern and Western).DATEIN: The date on which the facility was/will be in use by the department. This could be either active (operational and reporting) or non-reporting (operational but not reporting).DATEOUT: The date after which the facility will not be in use by the department. The facility has therefore suspended operations.STATUS_CODE: Internal Sinjani unique status identifier.LONGITUDE:Longitude values in decimal degrees.CLASSIFICATION_ID: Internal Sinjani unique classification identifier.CLASSIFICATION: Facility classification refers to the type of facility. The classification is determined by the services that are offered, the hours the facility is open, whether it is private of public.CATEGORY_ID: Internal Sinjani unique category identifier.CATEGORY: Facility category refers to the groupSHORT_NAME: Facility short name generated by DHIS. Often used in reports to reduce space used.AUTHORITY: Facility authority refers to who managers, funds and resources the facility. This may be different to who owns the property.EMAIL: The main email address of the facility that will be routed to the intended recipientCONTACT_NAME: Name of person who is the head of the facility.AUTHORITY_ID: Internal Sinjani unique authority identifier.LATITUDE: Latitude values in decimal degreesASSOCIATED_FACILITY: The associated facility is the public health facility that the school is associated with. Association means that the health facility is responsible for the services provided at the school.ASSOCIATED_FACILITY_CODE: Internal Sinjani unique associated facility short code.URBAN_CODE: Internal Sinjani unique urban identifier. URBAN Environmental classification as Urban, Rural or Peri-Urban.HEALTH_FACILITY_SHORT_CODE: Three digit unique code generated by Sinjani system. This code is used in all health systems to identify facilities.SHAPE :Feature geometry.EMIS: Unique code for each school generated by Department of Education.TELNO: The main phone number of the facility e.g. switchboard that will be routed to the intended recipientQUINTILE_ID: Internal Sinjani unique school quintile identifier.QUINTILE_NAME: The quintile that a school is allocated to. The options are: Quintile 1; Quintile 2; Quintile 3; Quintile 4; Quintile 5POSTAL_CODE: Postal code of the address to which mail may be delivered Postal code per suburb as per the master reference postal box code list: List of South African postal codes as published by the South African Post Office. Available at the following link: https://www.postoffice.co.za/Questions/postalcode.html or in the document named South African Postal Codes Master Reference List v1.0. Excludes street codes used for physical addresses. For informal addresses use the postal code of the nearest city/town. For international addresses free text is allowed.TIER: The ART capturing system in use by facilities.OLD_ADDRESS: Lines 1-4 of the physcial address - concatenatedPO_BOX_OR_PRIVATE_BAG: Lines 1-4 of the address to which mail may be deliveredPOSTAL_SUBURB_OR_TOWN: Town or suburb of the address to which mail may be deliveredTOWN: Physical address. City or Town name as per the Area column in the master reference postal code list. For informal addresses this needs to be the nearest town/city. For international addresses free text is allowed.ADDRESS_TYPE: Physical address. Type of address as per SANS 1883-1:2009. Options are: Building; Farm; Informal; PO Box/Private Bag; SAPO poste restante; Site; StreetSTREET_NUMBER: Physical address. Number of the unit, farm on the street.STREET_NAME: Physical address. Name of the street or road. For farm or site type addresses, use a road name, e.g. R364.SUBURB: Physical address. Suburb name as per the Suburb column in the master reference postal code list. For farm type addresses record the District name. For international addresses free text is allowed.DHIS_UID: Unique identifier generated by the DHIS system (NDOH system) for each facility.PROVINCE: Physical address. Name of the province as per the Master Province Reference Data list. For international addresses free text is allowed.STREET_POSTAL_CODE: Physical address. Postal code per suburb as per the master reference postal street code list: List of South African postal codes as published by the South African Post Office. Available at the following link: https://www.postoffice.co.za/Questions/postalcode.html or in the document named South African Postal Codes Master Reference List v1.0. Excludes box codes used for postal box type addresses. For informal addresses use the postal code of the nearest city/town. For international addresses free text is allowed.OPEN_DAYS: The days of the week that the facility is open / operating.OPEN_TIME: The hours of the day that the facility is open / operating.THROUGHPUT_REPORT_REQUIRED: An indicator to flag a facility accordig to whether it requires a throughput report (summary report of Clinicom data) to be generated by the BI system or not.SUBSTRUCT: The grouping of two sub-districts within the Cape Town Metropolitan district according to the organisational and management structure. Only applicable to the Cape Town Metro district. KESS = Khayelitsha and Eastern sub-districtsNTSS = Northern and Tygerberg sub-dsitrictsSWSS = Southern and Western sub-districtsKMPSS = Mitchells Plain and Klipfontein sub-districtsN/A (Rural) = Applied to all rural sub-districtsMETRO_RURAL: The grouping of districts into Metro Health Services (MHS) and Rural Health Services (RHS) according to the organisational and management structure. Metro = City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality Rural = Cape Winelands District Municipality; Central Karoo District Municipality; Garden Route District Municipality; Overberg District Municipality; West Coast District MunicipalityDATE_MODIFIED: The date when the facility data was most recently modified in the systemStatus: Includes only records with a Status = 'A' (active) Status of the facility in terms of whether it is operating or not and whether it is submitting data on Sinjani Active - facility is actively submitting data on Sinjani AND is operational. Data is expected on a routine basis. Absence of data results in a missing data report. Suspended - facility is no longer actively submitting data on Sinjani AND is not operational. Not reporting - facility is not actively submitting data on Sinjani, BUT remains operational.

Location of public health facilities generated from the Western Cape Department of Health's Sinjani database MDS View. The Dataset is updated on a weekly basis directly from the Sinjani database via a scheduled Python script.

Definition query on DOH public facilities for Specialised Facilities is
(Classification = 'Reproductive Health Centre' or Classification = 'Specialised Oral Health Centre' or Classification = 'Specialised Rehabilitation Unit' or
Classification = 'Midwife Obstetrics Unit' or Classification = 'Occupational Health Centre' or Classification = 'Specialised Hospital' or Classification = 'Specialised Psychiatric Hospital' or Classification = 'Specialised TB Hospital' or Classification = 'School Health Services Unit' or
Classification = 'Health Promotion Service' or Classification = 'Dental Clinic' or Classification = 'Special Clinic')Publication DateFeature layer updated daily from Sinjani MDS viewAttribute DefinitionsOBJECTID: Internal feature number.NAT_CODE: Six digit unique code obtained from the National Department of Health for facilities. The code is generated by the DHIS system.This code is used in the Mom Connect project.ID: Sinjani Internal facility identifierNAME: Name that the organisational unit is registered on Sinjani with. It may differ from actual name in the case of private facilities in order to standardise naming conventions on the system.DISTRICT_ID: Sinjani Internal district identifierDISTRICT: District that the facility falls within based on the gazetted health boundaries. District is between province and sub-district in the organisational unit hierarchy. In the Metro, 2 sub-districts form 1 Sub-structure (NTSS = Northern and Tygerberg; KESS = Khayelitsha and Eastern; KMSS = Klipfontein and Mitchells Plain; SWSS = Southern and Western).SUB_DISTRICT_ID: Sinjani Internal sub-district identifierSUB_DISTRICT: Sub-district that the facility falls within based on the gazetted health boundaries. Sub-district is between facility and district in the organisational unit hierarchy. In the Metro, 2 sub-districts form 1 Sub-structure (NTSS = Northern and Tygerberg; KESS = Khayelitsha and Eastern; KMSS = Klipfontein and Mitchells Plain; SWSS = Southern and Western).DATEIN: The date on which the facility was/will be in use by the department. This could be either active (operational and reporting) or non-reporting (operational but not reporting).DATEOUT: The date after which the facility will not be in use by the department. The facility has therefore suspended operations.STATUS_CODE: Internal Sinjani unique status identifier.LONGITUDE:Longitude values in decimal degrees.CLASSIFICATION_ID: Internal Sinjani unique classification identifier.CLASSIFICATION: Facility classification refers to the type of facility. The classification is determined by the services that are offered, the hours the facility is open, whether it is private of public.CATEGORY_ID: Internal Sinjani unique category identifier.CATEGORY: Facility category refers to the groupSHORT_NAME: Facility short name generated by DHIS. Often used in reports to reduce space used.AUTHORITY: Facility authority refers to who managers, funds and resources the facility. This may be different to who owns the property.EMAIL: The main email address of the facility that will be routed to the intended recipientCONTACT_NAME: Name of person who is the head of the facility.AUTHORITY_ID: Internal Sinjani unique authority identifier.LATITUDE: Latitude values in decimal degreesASSOCIATED_FACILITY: The associated facility is the public health facility that the school is associated with. Association means that the health facility is responsible for the services provided at the school.ASSOCIATED_FACILITY_CODE: Internal Sinjani unique associated facility short code.URBAN_CODE: Internal Sinjani unique urban identifier. URBAN Environmental classification as Urban, Rural or Peri-Urban.HEALTH_FACILITY_SHORT_CODE: Three digit unique code generated by Sinjani system. This code is used in all health systems to identify facilities.SHAPE :Feature geometry.EMIS: Unique code for each school generated by Department of Education.TELNO: The main phone number of the facility e.g. switchboard that will be routed to the intended recipientQUINTILE_ID: Internal Sinjani unique school quintile identifier.QUINTILE_NAME: The quintile that a school is allocated to. The options are: Quintile 1; Quintile 2; Quintile 3; Quintile 4; Quintile 5POSTAL_CODE: Postal code of the address to which mail may be delivered Postal code per suburb as per the master reference postal box code list: List of South African postal codes as published by the South African Post Office. Available at the following link: https://www.postoffice.co.za/Questions/postalcode.html or in the document named South African Postal Codes Master Reference List v1.0. Excludes street codes used for physical addresses. For informal addresses use the postal code of the nearest city/town. For international addresses free text is allowed.TIER: The ART capturing system in use by facilities.OLD_ADDRESS: Lines 1-4 of the physcial address - concatenatedPO_BOX_OR_PRIVATE_BAG: Lines 1-4 of the address to which mail may be deliveredPOSTAL_SUBURB_OR_TOWN: Town or suburb of the address to which mail may be deliveredTOWN: Physical address. City or Town name as per the Area column in the master reference postal code list. For informal addresses this needs to be the nearest town/city. For international addresses free text is allowed.ADDRESS_TYPE: Physical address. Type of address as per SANS 1883-1:2009. Options are: Building; Farm; Informal; PO Box/Private Bag; SAPO poste restante; Site; StreetSTREET_NUMBER: Physical address. Number of the unit, farm on the street.STREET_NAME: Physical address. Name of the street or road. For farm or site type addresses, use a road name, e.g. R364.SUBURB: Physical address. Suburb name as per the Suburb column in the master reference postal code list. For farm type addresses record the District name. For international addresses free text is allowed.DHIS_UID: Unique identifier generated by the DHIS system (NDOH system) for each facility.PROVINCE: Physical address. Name of the province as per the Master Province Reference Data list. For international addresses free text is allowed.STREET_POSTAL_CODE: Physical address. Postal code per suburb as per the master reference postal street code list: List of South African postal codes as published by the South African Post Office. Available at the following link: https://www.postoffice.co.za/Questions/postalcode.html or in the document named South African Postal Codes Master Reference List v1.0. Excludes box codes used for postal box type addresses. For informal addresses use the postal code of the nearest city/town. For international addresses free text is allowed.OPEN_DAYS: The days of the week that the facility is open / operating.OPEN_TIME: The hours of the day that the facility is open / operating.THROUGHPUT_REPORT_REQUIRED: An indicator to flag a facility accordig to whether it requires a throughput report (summary report of Clinicom data) to be generated by the BI system or not.SUBSTRUCT: The grouping of two sub-districts within the Cape Town Metropolitan district according to the organisational and management structure. Only applicable to the Cape Town Metro district. KESS = Khayelitsha and Eastern sub-districtsNTSS = Northern and Tygerberg sub-dsitrictsSWSS = Southern and Western sub-districtsKMPSS = Mitchells Plain and Klipfontein sub-districtsN/A (Rural) = Applied to all rural sub-districtsMETRO_RURAL: The grouping of districts into Metro Health Services (MHS) and Rural Health Services (RHS) according to the organisational and management structure. Metro = City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality Rural = Cape Winelands District Municipality; Central Karoo District Municipality; Garden Route District Municipality; Overberg District Municipality; West Coast District MunicipalityDATE_MODIFIED: The date when the facility data was most recently modified in the systemStatus: Includes only records with a Status = 'A' (active) Status of the facility in terms of whether it is operating or not and whether it is submitting data on Sinjani Active - facility is actively submitting data on Sinjani AND is operational. Data is expected on a routine basis. Absence of data results in a missing data report. Suspended - facility is no longer actively submitting data on Sinjani AND is not operational. Not reporting - facility is not actively submitting data on Sinjani, BUT remains operational.