Concepts

Address

A structured physical or postal location used to reach a person, household, or organization. Addresses combine spatial and administrative components s…

AdministrativeAppeal

A formal request to an authority to review a particular administrative decision. Its authority is the organization asked to review the decision; the a…

AdministrativeDecision

A decision made by an authority about a particular person, organization or thing under the rules it applies, such as granting a permit, imposing a mea…

Agent

An entity that can act within a public delivery process: a person, an organization, or a software system. Agent is the shared supertype for actors tha…

AnimalGroup

Animals of one kind identified or managed together as one unit, such as a herd, flock or batch. The group keeps its identity while its membership chan…

AnimalGroupCount

An observation of how many animals belonged to an animal group on a stated date. The count need not equal the number of individually identified member…

AnimalMovement

The transfer of one or more animals from an origin facility to a destination facility, possibly through transit facilities, recorded as one event. A m…

AnimalResponsibility

A period during which a person, organization or group holds a stated responsibility for an individual animal or animal group, such as owner, keeper or…

AssetAddressAssignment

A dated association between a physical asset and an address used for a stated purpose, such as postal delivery or site access. A change of address doe…

AssetPartyRole

A dated statement that a person, organization or group holds a stated responsibility for a physical asset, such as ownership, operation, upkeep or reg…

Authorization

An authority's grant of permission to a holder to carry out a stated activity, subject to stated conditions. The registered subject is the holder; an …

AwardedQualification

The official confirmation that an organization awarded a qualification to a person who met its requirements, usually evidenced by a certificate, diplo…

BiometricSample

A biometric measurement captured from a person, such as a fingerprint image, iris scan, or facial photograph. Each record represents a single capture …

Building

A permanent, enclosed construction, above or below ground, used or intended to shelter people, animals or things, or to produce goods. A building's id…

BuildingUnit

A part of a building used as a separate unit in daily life, such as a dwelling, shop or office, usually with its own lockable entrance from outside or…

Certification

A dated attestation by a certifying organization that a stated subject, such as a product, process, operation, facility or person, conforms to a state…

CodedValue

A code together with the code scheme that gives it meaning, optionally with the display label supplied by the source and the URI of the concept it den…

ComplianceAssessment

A check by an authority or other body of whether a subject meets stated requirements at a given time, together with the result. The subject may be a f…

ConsentRecord

ConsentRecord documents the lawful basis for processing a data subject's personal data. Despite the name, consent is only one of six possible legal ba…

ContactPoint

A single means of reaching a subject, such as a telephone number or email address, offered for a stated purpose over a period. Holding a contact detai…

DeliveryItem

A line item describing a specific commodity and quantity within a delivery or voucher. Used to represent food baskets, supply kits, and other composit…

Event

Something that happens at a specific time or over a bounded period within a delivery system. Event is the shared supertype for records that capture oc…

EvidenceAssertion

A statement that a source supports or contradicts a claim, made by an accountable organization. Citing a source does not verify the claim.

Family

A kinship network of persons connected by blood, marriage, or adoption. A family is defined by relational ties, not by co-residence or shared budget: …

FunctioningProfile

A point-in-time record of functioning data collected about a person using a defined instrument from the Washington Group family: WG-SS (Short Set), WG…

GeneticResourceAccession

An identified sample of plant genetic material kept and maintained by a genebank or other collection under an accession number that the maintaining in…

Group

An abstract collection of persons that serves as the base for concrete group types such as Household and Family. Groups are linked to their members vi…

GroupMembership

The link between a Person and a Group, carrying the role the person plays within that group membership (such as head, spouse, child, owner, operator, …

HazardEvent

An event or condition that may disrupt the delivery of public services or affect the well-being of a population. Covers natural hazards (floods, droug…

Household

A social and economic unit of one or more persons who share food and other essentials for living. The operational definition varies across countries a…

IdentifiedAnimalUnit

An animal or a group of animals identified as one unit. Records about residence, responsibility or other facts can refer to either kind, because indiv…

Identifier

A coded value assigned to an entity within an identification scheme. Identifiers disambiguate entities such as persons, groups, locations, administrat…

IdentifierAssignment

The assignment of an identifier to a subject by an issuing organization, valid over a stated period. The identifier is distinct from the act of assign…

IdentityDocument

A physical or digital document that asserts one or more identifiers about a party (person, household, group, or organization). Distinct from the ident…

IndividualAnimal

A single animal, identified as the same organism throughout its life regardless of the identifiers it carries, the people responsible for it or the pl…

InformalGroup

A collection of persons identified together for a shared activity or purpose, without asserting a separate institutional body, common residence or kin…

InKindDelivery

A record of a direct physical distribution of goods or services from a program to a beneficiary, with no financial instrument involved. Covers food di…

InstitutionalRelationship

A dated, directed relationship between two organizations, such as one being part of, supervised by, affiliated with or a member of the other. The rela…

InstitutionalRole

A dated assignment of a person, group or organization to a role in an organization, such as member, director, officer or board member. Membership of a…

Instrument

A defined tool used to collect information about a subject: a survey form, questionnaire, screening protocol, or measurement procedure. Instruments ar…

LegalArrangement

An arrangement, such as a trust or nominee agreement, through which people or organizations exercise ownership or control over an entity without formi…

Location

A named geographic or administrative area, such as a region, district, commune, or village. Location captures where a household or event is situated w…

NameUsage

A name by which a subject is known, with its language, the context of use and the period of use. A subject can have several names at once. A current n…

Organization

A legally or administratively identifiable body, public or private, for profit or not, such as a company, cooperative, association, non-governmental o…

OrganizationalChangeEvent

A significant reorganization, such as a merger, split or takeover of functions, after which at least one organization has a new identity. Its authorit…

OwnershipInterest

A stated ownership or control interest that a person, organization or legal arrangement holds in an organization or legal arrangement, such as a share…

Party

A person, an organized group of persons or an organization that can be identified, enrolled in programs, and receive benefits or services. Party is th…

PaymentEvent

A record of a direct monetary transfer from a program to a beneficiary. Covers bank transfer, mobile money, cash, agent network, and prepaid card chan…

Person

The unique individual human being who is a subject of record. Person is the persistent, indivisible unit of identity in registries; operational status…

PlantVariety

A plant grouping within a single botanical taxon of the lowest known rank that can be defined by characteristics resulting from its genotype, is disti…

PracticeRole

A dated role in which a person practices a profession for an organization, optionally at specified service points. Holding the role does not show that…

PrivacyNotice

PrivacyNotice is the artefact presented to a data subject describing which personal data will be processed, by whom, for what purposes, under which le…

ProductComponent

A declared constituent of a product, identified by a code, with its role in the product and, optionally, its amount on a stated basis. It describes co…

ProfessionalLicense

An authorization for a person to practice a regulated profession, or a defined part of it, in a jurisdiction during a stated period. It is distinct fr…

Profile

A point-in-time record of data collected about a subject using a defined instrument. Profile is the shared supertype for SocioEconomicProfile and Func…

PublicOrganization

An organization that a law or other legal framework places in the public sector, at any level of government. Being public does not settle whether it h…

PublicService

A set of activities that a public organization carries out, or has carried out on its behalf, to meet a public policy purpose. It may serve people, bu…

QuantityValue

A numeric amount with its unit of measure, where the unit is a code from a named unit system. The property holding the value says what is measured.

RecordLifecycleEvent

A change in the standing of a register record, such as invalidation, retirement or supersession, with the time the change takes effect and the time it…

RecordReference

A reference to a record, given by the register that holds it and the record's identifier within that register. It may also state which subject the rec…

Register

An authoritative collection of records about subjects of stated types, kept by an accountable organization for a stated administrative purpose. A regi…

Registration

An authority's formal recognition of a subject for a stated administrative purpose within a jurisdiction. Recognition is distinct from the subject, fr…

RegistrationOffice

A service point where civil or administrative registration services are delivered, such as a civil registration office, a district branch, a mobile re…

RegistryEntry

A record in a register that describes one subject. The register and the record's local identifier together identify the record; the subject has its ow…

RegulatoryAction

A measure an authority takes about a regulated subject, such as a warning, order, penalty, suspension or withdrawal. The authority is the body taking …

Relationship

A link defining the social, legal, or administrative connection between an individual and another person or group. Three broad types exist: kinship (b…

RepresentationRole

A dated relationship in which a person or organization acts on behalf of a person, organization, group or legal arrangement within a stated scope. Rep…

ScoringEvent

A discrete event in which a scoring rule is applied to inputs about a subject to produce a score or a band. Inputs may be one or more Profile records …

ScoringRule

A persistent set of rules, formulas, or cutoffs used to turn input data into a score or a band. Scoring rules include proxy means test (PMT) formulas,…

SeedLot

A specified quantity of seed that is physically and uniquely identifiable and handled as one unit for storage, testing, certification or distribution.…

ServiceApplication

A request submitted to a public organization to use a public service or to obtain a decision under it. Its authority is the organization that received…

ServiceCapacityObservation

A measurement of how much a service or facility can handle, such as staffed beds or school places, at a given time. Its subject URI names the facility…

ServicePoint

A named physical point where an organization delivers a public service. ServicePoint is domain-agnostic: it covers health facilities, schools, water p…

SocioEconomicProfile

A point-in-time record of socio-economic and living-conditions data about a household or person, collected through a registration survey or questionna…

SoftwareAgent

A software product or system that performed a step in a delivery process, such as a scoring engine that computed a proxy means test score or a rule en…

SpatialGeometry

A shape or position written in a named geometry encoding and coordinate reference system. It says where something is, not what it is; addresses, named…

SubjectMatchAssertion

A reviewed or automated judgement about whether a source record describes a given subject, with the method used and the accountable organization. It d…

Voucher

A redeemable instrument issued to a beneficiary as fulfillment of a benefit entitlement. A voucher has a distinct lifecycle: creation, issuance, redem…

VoucherRedemption

A record of a single redemption transaction against a voucher. Each VoucherRedemption captures one visit to a vendor or agent where part or all of a v…

WaterPoint

A service point where drinking water or household water is made accessible to a population, such as a borehole, public tap or standpipe, protected dug…

WorkRelationship

The set of tasks and duties that one person performs, or is meant to perform, for one economic unit during an optionally known period. It covers a job…

BenefitSchedule

A program-level definition of a benefit stream that specifies the modality, amount, frequency, and time period over which benefits are provided. A pro…

EligibilityDecision

A formal determination of whether a subject meets a program's criteria based on assessed conditions. A single scoring event or profile can support mul…

Enrollment

The administrative process of registering an eligible person or household as an active beneficiary of a program. Budget constraints and capacity limit…

Entitlement

An instance of a recognized right of a specific beneficiary to receive a benefit. Each entitlement typically corresponds to one disbursement period, b…

Grievance

A record of a complaint, appeal, correction request, or misconduct allegation raised through a program's grievance redress mechanism. It captures form…

Program

A government or institutional social protection intervention that provides benefits to eligible individuals or households based on defined criteria. A…

Referral

A structured process of linking a subject to an external program, service, or provider to address identified needs. Referrals span a spectrum from pas…

Adoption

A legal act by which one or more persons acquire the status of parent to a child, creating a parent-child relationship that did not previously exist i…

Birth

A live birth, meaning the complete expulsion or extraction of a product of conception from its mother, irrespective of duration of pregnancy, which af…

Certificate

A document issued from a civil status record or vital event that attests to the event for external use. Distinct from the underlying record: certifica…

CivilStatusAnnotation

A marginal annotation (mention marginale) added to a civil status record to reflect a later vital event or administrative change. Examples include a m…

CivilStatusDocument

An administrative document that records civil-status facts about one or more persons. Distinct from the concepts (Birth, Marriage, Death, etc.) that d…

CivilStatusRecord

The official written record (acte) held by a civil registration authority that attests to a vital event. In civil-law traditions, this is the persiste…

Death

The permanent disappearance of all evidence of life at any time after a live birth has taken place. Captures the deceased person, the cause and manner…

FamilyRegister

A record that tracks a family unit over time, centered on a head of household. Members are reached through the linked Family, which exposes GroupMembe…

FetalDeath

Death prior to the complete expulsion or extraction of a product of conception from its mother, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy. Distinct fr…

Legitimation

The act by which a child previously born outside marriage acquires the legal status of a child born within marriage, typically following the subsequen…

Marriage

The legal union of two persons under the applicable law. Captures the two parties, witnesses, and the type of marriage (civil, religious, customary, c…

MarriageTermination

The legal end of a marriage while both parties are alive, whether by divorce (dissolution of a valid marriage) or annulment (declaration that the marr…

Parent

A crvs/Person subtype that captures a parental role alongside the inherited person-of-record properties. Used on Birth, Adoption, PaternityRecognition…

PaternityRecognition

A formal act in which a parent, typically a father, establishes legal parentage for a child born outside marriage. Takes place before a registrar, not…

Person

A temporal snapshot of a Person as observed at the time of a vital event. Carries the same demographic properties as Person, but frozen at event time …

VitalEvent

An event of legal and statistical importance that marks a change in a person's civil status, such as birth, death, fetal death, marriage, divorce, ann…

AgriculturalFacility

A physical site, building or installation where agricultural or aquaculture production, or a related activity such as storage, processing, trading or …

AgriculturalHolderRole

The responsibility of a person, organization or group for the key decisions on resource use and for management control of a farm, alone or jointly wit…

AgriculturalInputProduct

A product specification or marketed formulation intended for use as an agricultural input, such as a feed, fertilising product or pesticide. It is not…

AgriculturalLaboratory

A facility where agricultural materials such as soil, water, plant tissue, feed or produce are analyzed or tested. Membership of a laboratory network …

AgriculturalMachine

An identifiable physical machine or implement used for agricultural work, such as a tractor, harvester, sprayer or pump. It keeps its identity when it…

AgriculturalParcel

An identified, delimited area of land used or usable for agricultural production, as recorded by the source for a stated period. It is a land-use unit…

AgriculturalServiceRole

A dated relationship in which a person, organization or group offers or performs stated agricultural services, such as input supply, pesticide applica…

AnimalBreed

A named population of domesticated animals that a breed society, public authority or breed information system recognizes as a breed. A breed is distin…

AnimalResidence

A period during which an individual animal or animal group is kept at an identified agricultural facility. A change of keeper need not change residenc…

CropPlanting

One cultivation of one or more crops on an identified piece of land of an agricultural holding, from sowing or planting to the end of that crop cycle.…

CropPlantingComponent

One crop, optionally of an identified variety, grown within a planting. Several components describe inter-planted, mixed or associated crops, and each…

Farm

An economic unit of agricultural production under single management. It comprises all livestock kept and all land used wholly or partly for agricultur…

FarmerRegistration

A registration recognizing a person, organization or group as a farmer or agricultural producer for a stated administrative purpose, optionally naming…

FishingVessel

A vessel used, equipped or intended for fishing or fishing-related activities. It keeps its identity when its name, flag, owner or operator changes. R…

GroupAgriculturalHolderRole

An agricultural holder role borne by a group of persons acting as one holder without legal personality, such as a household, clan or informal partners…

HoldingFacilityLink

A dated statement that a farm uses an agricultural facility, such as a barn, store or livestock premises, for its production. Several farms may use th…

HoldingParcelLink

A dated statement that a farm uses all or part of an agricultural parcel. Several farms may use the same parcel. The link does not by itself assert ex…

HoldingWorkAssignment

Work performed or intended to be performed by one person on a specified Farm during an optionally known period, including daily management, paid work …

IrrigationScheme

A defined area in which water is fully or partly controlled for irrigation, together with the works that supply it, such as intakes, canals, pipes and…

OrganizationAgriculturalHolderRole

An agricultural holder role borne by one organization, such as a company, cooperative or public body. It does not assert ownership, registration or be…

PersonAgriculturalHolderRole

An agricultural holder role borne by one person. It does not assert ownership, registration or benefit entitlement.

ProducerOrganization

An organization set up on the initiative of agricultural producers and controlled by its producer members to pursue shared aims, such as joint product…

LandAdministrativeUnit

A unit recorded in land administration to which one or more uniform rights, restrictions or responsibilities apply. It may be formally registered or i…

LandBoundaryAssertion

A statement of where the boundary of a land spatial unit lies and how far it is recognized or agreed, with its supporting evidence. Geometry alone doe…

LandSpatialUnit

A separately identified area of land, or volume of space, recorded in land administration. A cadastral parcel is one kind of spatial unit. A spatial u…

LandTenureAssertion

A statement that a party holds, or claims, a right, restriction or responsibility over an identified land administrative unit during a stated period. …

EnvironmentalFacility

A place where one or more activities regulated for their effect on the environment are carried out, such as an industrial plant, a large livestock uni…

WaterUseAuthorization

A permission from a competent authority to abstract or impound water from stated sources, for stated purposes, within stated limits and conditions. It…

DrivingEntitlement

A permission for a person to drive vehicles of one license category, recorded by a licensing authority, with its own conditions and dates. One driver'…

Vehicle

A single, identifiable road vehicle or trailer, such as a car, lorry, motorcycle or agricultural tractor. It stays the same vehicle when its registrat…

EducationOffering

A provider's offering of an education program through specified physical or virtual sites during a period, such as one campus, intake or delivery mode…

EducationProgram

A coherent, organized set or sequence of learning activities designed to achieve stated learning objectives over a sustained period, usually leading t…

EducationProvider

An organization that provides education or training, either as its main purpose or alongside other activities. It is described independently of the pr…

ProviderSite

A physical or virtual place through which an education provider delivers learning. A physical site may point to a School or other service point instea…

School

A service point where formal or non-formal education is delivered, such as a primary school, secondary school, vocational training center, or early ch…

HealthFacility

A service point where clinical or preventive health services are delivered, such as a hospital, health center, health post, dispensary, specialty clin…

TaxRegistration

A tax authority's recognition that a person or organization is registered for a tax, or group of taxes, in its jurisdiction. A subject registered for …

VoterRegistration

The recognition by an electoral authority that a person is entered in its register of electors for a jurisdiction. Being registered does not by itself…

AttributeValue

One {attribute_uri, value} pair carried by a MetricObservation. Modelled as a list of structured pairs rather than a map so attribute ordering and emi…

DimensionValue

One {dimension_uri, code} pair carried by a MetricObservation. Ordering matters for SDMX DSD round-trip, so this is modelled as an ordered list of str…

Metric

A named, derivable indicator with a stable URI, a prose definition, a value type, a unit, declared dimensions, declared observation-level attributes, …

MetricAttribute

A non-key annotation on an observation, series, or dataset. Mirrors SDMX cross-domain concepts (OBS_STATUS, UNIT_MEASURE, DECIMALS, CONF_STATUS, COMME…

MetricCalculation

A declarative computation that turns record-level PublicSchema data into a metric value. Borrows the population / stratifier / scoring shape from FHIR…

MetricDimension

A typed dimension that disaggregates a metric. References a code list, which may be a PublicSchema vocabulary or an external SDMX agency codelist. Pub…

MetricObservation

One reported value against a Metric, with dimension values, period, and observation-level attributes. The observation / scoring separation extends fro…

MetricReport

A bundle of MetricObservation records with publisher metadata. Maps to an SDMX Dataset and to qb:DataSet on RDF emission.

Period

The temporal coverage of a MetricObservation. PublicSchema reifies the period as a separate class (rather than carrying inline start_date / end_date l…

PopulationCriterion

One population in a MetricCalculation, paired with the language and criteria that select the records belonging to it. The population_type follows FHIR…

Stratifier

A disaggregation expression evaluated against the populations of a MetricCalculation. Stratifiers may nest via components, allowing cross-cutting disa…