Vocabularies
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acute-malnutrition-severity
The severity band of a person's acute malnutrition, expressed as adequate, moderate, or severe. The band is a classification layer used across age gro…
address-purpose
The purpose for which an address is given for an asset, following the postal and physical address types of HL7 FHIR. A source may use its own scheme i…
administration-mode
How an instrument is administered to a subject: self-reported, proxy-reported (a caregiver or household member answers about the subject), assisted (t…
aid-use-frequency
A four-point frequency scale for how often a person uses an assistive device, used in the Washington Group Extended Set on Functioning (WG-ES) for hea…
animal-responsibility-role
Kinds of responsibility a person or organization holds for animals. Owner, keeper and operator can be different parties for the same animals. A source…
asset-role-type
Kinds of responsibility a party holds for a physical asset. Operation, upkeep and registered keeping are not ownership. A source may use its own schem…
attachment-level
The SDMX attachment level for a MetricAttribute.
biometric-exception-reason
The reason a biometric sample could not be captured. Used on BiometricSample records where exception_reason is non-null, indicating the record documen…
biometric-modality
The type of biometric measurement captured, such as fingerprint, face, or iris.
biometric-subtype
The specific body part or position within a biometric modality. Values must be consistent with the biometric_modality property: finger codes with fing…
care-provider-type
The type of care provider or facility from which a caregiver sought advice or treatment for a child's illness episode. Used for diarrhea, ARI, and fev…
cfm-symptom-frequency
A five-point frequency scale for emotional symptoms, used in the WG/UNICEF Child Functioning Module (CFM) for the anxiety and depression domains.
cognition-remembering-extent
A three-point scale describing the extent of the person's difficulty remembering, used in the Washington Group Extended Set on Functioning (WG-ES).
cognition-remembering-frequency
A three-point frequency scale describing how often a person has difficulty remembering, used in the Washington Group Extended Set on Functioning (WG-E…
cognition-subdomain
A three-value scale distinguishing which cognition subdomain (remembering, concentrating, or both) the person has difficulty with, used in the Washing…
collection-medium
The physical or digital medium through which a consent indication was communicated and recorded. Orthogonal to consent-expression (which captures how …
comparative-behaviour-scale
A three-point scale comparing a child's behaviour to other children of the same age, used in the WG/UNICEF Child Functioning Module (CFM) for the beha…
consent-expression
How the data subject indicated their agreement or non-objection. Orthogonal to collection-medium (paper, electronic, verbal, mixed), which describes t…
consent-record-type
Distinguishes the two roles a consent record can serve according to ISO/IEC TS 27560:2023, a controller's internal working record and a receipt issued…
consent-status
The current lifecycle state of a consent record. Values are ordered roughly along the record lifecycle from initial request through active use to term…
contact-channel
The kind of communication channel through which a subject can be reached, following the FHIR contact point system codes.
cooking-fuel
The primary fuel used by the household for cooking, classified according to the WHO Household Energy categories.
country
Countries and territories as defined by the ISO 3166-1 standard, using alpha-2 codes.
currency
Currency codes as defined by the ISO 4217 standard.
daily-duration
A three-point scale describing how much of the day a condition or feeling persists, used in the Washington Group Extended Set on Functioning (WG-ES) f…
delegation-type
Who indicated consent on behalf of the data subject and under what legal authority. The value self means the data subject indicated consent directly f…
delivery-channel
The mechanisms through which benefit transfers reach beneficiaries.
displacement-status
The legal, administrative, or protection status of a person with respect to displacement and migration, drawing from international frameworks for disp…
document-status
The availability and condition of an identity or civil documentation document held by a household member. Captures displacement-specific loss and conf…
document-type
Categories of identity documents that carry one or more identifiers about a party, such as passports, national identity cards, civil registration cert…
dwelling-type
The type of living quarters occupied by the household, classified according to the UN Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Census…
education-level
The highest level of education completed by a person, classified according to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED 2011).
employment-status
The labour force participation status of a person, classified as employed, unemployed, or outside the labour force following the three-category labour…
event-certainty
The confidence that an event has occurred or will occur. Values are compatible with OASIS CAP v1.2 certainty codes.
event-severity
The observed or expected severity of an event's impact. Values are compatible with OASIS CAP v1.2 severity codes.
evidence-role
Whether a cited source supports or contradicts the claim it is offered for. Citing a source does not verify the claim.
facility-operational-status
Whether a service point or health facility is currently operational, partially operational, temporarily or permanently closed, not yet opened, or of u…
floor-material
The primary material of the floor in the household's dwelling.
food-security-level
The severity of food insecurity experienced by the household, classified according to the FAO Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) severity levels.…
form-of-work
The form of productive activity that a piece of work belongs to under the international statistical standards on work, distinguished by the intended d…
frequency
SDMX cross-domain FREQ codes used by Period.observation_frequency. Codes resolve to urn:sdmx:org.sdmx.infomodel.codelist.Codelist=SDMX:CL_FREQ; Public…
functional-difficulty-severity
The degree of difficulty a person experiences in a functional domain, based on the Washington Group Short Set on Functioning (WG-SS) four-point respon…
functional-intensity
A three-point intensity scale used in the Washington Group Extended Set on Functioning (WG-ES) for depth of feeling (anxiety, depression) and of bodil…
gender-type
The administrative gender of a person as recorded in a registry or identity system. Distinct from biological sex (see the sex vocabulary). No single i…
geometry-encoding
The text format in which a geometry is written, following the geometry literal types that GeoSPARQL defines.
granularity
The granularity of a Period.
group-role
The role a person plays within a group membership. Some values describe position within a kinship-based roster, often relative to a reference person, …
group-type
Categories used as an interoperability classifier for group records in external or flat data models. In native PublicSchema modeling, the concrete Gro…
hazard-type
The category of hazard or disruptive event, based on the Sendai Framework classification with extensions for social and economic shocks.
household-asset
Durable goods owned by at least one member of the household, used as wealth proxy indicators in targeting and proxy means testing.
ict-access
Information and communication technology devices and services accessible to the household, based on ITU Core ICT Indicators.
identifier-type
Categories of identifier values used to distinguish entities within identification schemes. Covers coded values assigned to persons, groups, locations…
impression-type
The method by which a fingerprint biometric was captured. Covers live-scan, non-live-scan, and latent capture methods. Applies to fingerprint captures…
improvement-notation
Whether an increase in the metric value is desirable, undesirable, or policy-dependent.
income-source
The source of income for a household, combining employment-derived categories (informed by ILO ICSE-18) with non-employment income types relevant to s…
instrument-code
Canonical short identifiers for the data-collection instruments referenced by Profile records and by the valid_instruments metadata on item-level prop…
interest-directness
Whether an ownership or control interest is held directly or through intermediate entities or arrangements.
language
Language codes as defined by the ISO 639-3 standard, covering all known human languages.
legal-basis
The lawful ground under which a controller processes personal data, corresponding to the six bases enumerated in GDPR Article 6(1) and mirrored in mos…
literacy
Whether a person can, with understanding, both read and write a short simple statement on everyday life.
marital-status
Categories describing a person's marital or civil status as recorded in a registry or administrative system.
match-outcome
The judgement reached about whether a source record describes a given subject.
maternity-care-provider
The category of health provider who delivered antenatal care (ANC), attended the delivery, or gave postnatal care (PNC). Used across ANC provider, del…
metric-topic
The substantive topic family of a metric. Drives browsing and faceting on the website.
mobility-aid-type
The type of mobility aid or assistance a person uses for getting around, drawn from the Washington Group Extended Set on Functioning (WG-ES) MOB_3 che…
name-use
Contexts in which a subject uses a name, following the legal and alternative names of the SEMIC Core Business Vocabulary and the official name of HL7 …
occupancy-arrangement
The legal or social arrangement under which the household currently occupies its shelter. Captures ownership, rental, hosting, and informal occupation…
occupation
Categories describing a person's occupation, based on the full ISCO-08 classification hierarchy (major groups, sub-major groups, minor groups, and uni…
organization-type
A broad classification of organisations by their institutional nature and sector. Used on consent records to describe the categories of recipients to …
payment-status
The processing states of a payment event in the disbursement cycle.
period-type
The kind of period represented by a Period.
population-type
The role a PopulationCriterion plays in a MetricCalculation. Mirrors FHIR R5 Measure.
pregnancy-status
The current pregnancy status of a person. Aligned with the LOINC LL4129-4 answer list (pregnant, not pregnant, unknown), with an additional postpartum…
rate-aggregation
How per-stratum rates are aggregated back to a single metric value.
recipient-role
The legal relationship between the data controller and a recipient organisation, which determines the obligations each party carries under data protec…
record-change-kind
The kind of change to the standing of a register record, following the register item actions of ISO 19135. These codes describe the record's standing;…
region
Geographic regions and country groupings as defined by the United Nations M49 standard.
registration-office-type
The functional category of a civil or administrative registration office, distinguishing general civil registration offices from specialized sub-offic…
relationship-type
Categories describing the nature of the connection between two persons, covering kinship, administrative, and economic relationships.
roof-material
The primary material of the roof in the household's dwelling.
sanitation-facility
The type of toilet or latrine facility used by the household, classified according to the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP).
sanitation-service-level
The WHO/UNICEF JMP classification of sanitation service quality, ranging from safely managed to open defecation.
scoring-method
The scoring method applied by a MetricCalculation. Mirrors FHIR R5 Measure.scoring with one shared semantics; PublicSchema adds no new methods.
script
Writing system codes as defined by the ISO 15924 standard.
service-point-type
The category of service delivered at a service point, covering health, education, distribution, WASH, protection, civil registration, community servic…
settlement-type
The classification of the area where a household is located by degree of urbanization, based on the UN Degree of Urbanisation (DEGURBA) framework.
sex
The biological sex of a person as recorded in an official register or identity document, following ISO/IEC 5218.
shelter-situation-type
The type of shelter arrangement currently occupied by the household, particularly relevant when the original dwelling is damaged or unavailable. Compl…
special-category-basis
The explicit legal ground for processing special-category personal data (sensitive categories such as health, biometric, or ethnic-origin data) under …
status-in-employment
The type of employment relationship a person has, classified according to the ILO International Classification of Status in Employment (ICSE-18).
symptom-chronicity
A three-point scale describing how pervasive a cognitive symptom is, used in the Washington Group Extended Set on Functioning (WG-ES) for remembering …
symptom-period-frequency
A four-point frequency scale used in the Washington Group Extended Set on Functioning (WG-ES) for reporting how often a bodily symptom (pain, fatigue)…
unit-of-measure
Units of measure for quantities of goods distributed or redeemable through benefit programs.
unit-system
The system of codes that defines a unit of measure used in a quantity value.
value-type
The kind of numeric or categorical value a metric carries.
voucher-format
The physical or digital form of a voucher.
voucher-status
The lifecycle states of a voucher instrument, from creation through redemption or expiry.
wall-material
The primary material of the exterior walls in the household's dwelling.
water-point-type
The physical type of a water access point, classified per the WHO/UNICEF JMP improved-source typology. The type of water point is the primary determin…
water-service-level
The WHO/UNICEF JMP classification of drinking water service quality, ranging from safely managed to no service.
water-source
The main source of drinking water used by the household, classified according to the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) facility types.
wg-ss-domain
The six core functioning domains of the Washington Group Short Set on Functioning (WG-SS). Used to identify which domains triggered a disability ident…
withdrawal-channel
The channel through which a data subject exercised their right to withdraw consent. This field is populated when the consent record transitions to wit…
sp/benefit-frequency
The schedule on which a benefit or transfer is provided to a recipient, ranging from one-time payments to recurring disbursements at fixed intervals.
sp/benefit-modality
The form in which a benefit or entitlement is delivered to a beneficiary.
sp/conditionality-type
Categories describing whether and how a social protection program requires beneficiaries to meet behavioral conditions to receive or continue receivin…
sp/eligibility-status
The possible outcomes of a formal eligibility determination for a program or service.
sp/enrollment-exit-reason
The reason an enrollment was permanently closed. Applies when enrollment status is closed, not when graduated.
sp/enrollment-status
The lifecycle states of an enrollment in a program.
sp/entitlement-status
The lifecycle states of a benefit entitlement instance, from creation through fulfillment or termination.
sp/grievance-status
The lifecycle states of a grievance record in a program or service.
sp/grievance-type
Categories describing the primary issue raised in a grievance record handled through a program's redress mechanism.
sp/referral-status
The lifecycle states of a referral between programs or services.
sp/targeting-approach
The methods used to identify and select eligible beneficiaries for a social protection program.
crvs/adoption-type
Whether an adoption fully replaces the relationship to the biological family (full adoption) or preserves some legal ties to it (simple or limited ado…
crvs/annotation-type
The category of a marginal annotation (mention marginale) added to a civil status record when the annotation is not derivable from a triggering vital …
crvs/birth-attendant
The category of person who attended the birth. Used to track skilled birth attendance, a core indicator of maternal and newborn health.
crvs/birth-type
The number of children delivered in a single birth event.
crvs/cause-of-death-method
The method used to determine the cause of death. In many low-income settings, cause of death is ascertained by verbal autopsy rather than physician ce…
crvs/certificate-document-type
The type of vital event that a certificate attests to. Describes what the document is about; orthogonal to the format of the certificate (full copy vs…
crvs/certificate-format
The format of a civil status certificate document. Distinct from the type of event it attests to: a full copy reproduces the entire acte including its…
crvs/civil-status-record-type
The type of acte represented by a civil status record. Covers the standard vital event actes and court-ordered substitutes used when original records …
crvs/family-register-status
Lifecycle status of a family register. Captures whether the register is currently active, has been closed, or was split into or merged with other regi…
crvs/manner-of-death
How a death occurred, as distinct from its underlying medical cause. Aligned with WHO/ICD Manner of Death classification.
crvs/marriage-termination-type
Whether the marriage was ended by divorce (dissolution of a valid marriage) or annulment (declaration that the marriage was invalid from its inception…
crvs/marriage-type
The legal or traditional framework under which a marriage was contracted.
crvs/parent-establishment-basis
The legal route by which parentage was established for a given Parent record. Distinguishes automatic legal presumptions from voluntary acts, court or…
crvs/parental-role
The role-nature of the parent relationship in the context of a vital event. Describes how parentage arose (biological, gestational, legal, adoptive) i…
crvs/place-type
The category of place where a vital event occurred (birth or death). Distinct from the specific Location: this captures the type (health facility, hom…
crvs/registration-status
Lifecycle states of the registration of a vital event, from initial declaration through validation, archival, or cancellation.
crvs/registration-type
Categories describing whether the registration of a vital event occurred within the legal time limit, after it, or through a special procedure.
agri/agricultural-facility-function
The kind of agricultural activity carried out at an agricultural facility, such as keeping animals, propagating plants, storing produce or trading. On…
agri/agricultural-input-category
The regulatory category of an agricultural input product. One product can belong to more than one category.
agri/agricultural-service-type
A kind of service or activity that an actor offers or performs for agricultural producers.
agri/land-tenure
Kinds of arrangement under which a farm operates the land it uses, following the land tenure types of the FAO World Programme for the Census of Agricu…
agri/livestock-type
Kinds of livestock kept on a farm, grouped following the livestock classification of the FAO World Programme for the Census of Agriculture.
land/tenure-category
Whether a land tenure assertion concerns a right, a restriction or a responsibility, following the three kinds of tenure relationship distinguished by…
edu/school-level
The ISCED 2011 level of education served by a school, covering early childhood through post-secondary non-tertiary education. This is a subset of the …
edu/school-type
The management and funding classification of a school, distinguishing public schools managed by government authorities from private, faith-based, and …
health/health-facility-level
The tier of care delivered by a health facility in a national or WHO health-system classification (primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary), reflecti…
health/health-facility-type
The functional category of a health facility, such as hospital, health center, health post, dispensary, clinic, pharmacy, or laboratory. Codes follow …
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