Private Rent Assistance Collection, 2016–17; Quality Statement
Data Quality Statement Attributes
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Metadata item type: | Data Quality Statement |
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METEOR identifier: | 677812 |
Registration status: | AIHW Data Quality Statements, Superseded 28/03/2019 |
Data quality | |
Data quality statement summary: | Description All states and territories provide private rental assistance through a number of programs and maintain administrative data sets about these programs. Extracts of these data sets are provided annually to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). The Private Rent Assistance (PRA) programs offered by the states and territories are:
Data are provided for PRA received during the 2016–17 financial year. Summary
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Institutional environment: | The AIHW is a major national agency set up by the Australian Government under the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Act 1987 to provide reliable, regular and relevant information and statistics on Australia's health and welfare. It is an independent corporate Commonwealth entity established in 1987, governed by a management Board, and accountable to the Australian Parliament through the Health portfolio. The AIHW aims to improve the health and wellbeing of Australians through better health and welfare information and statistics. It collects and reports information on a wide range of topics and issues, ranging from health and welfare expenditure, hospitals, disease and injury, and mental health, to ageing, homelessness, disability and child protection. The AIHW also plays a role in developing and maintaining national metadata standards. This work contributes to improving the quality and consistency of national health and welfare statistics. The AIHW works closely with governments and non-government organisations to achieve greater adherence to these standards in administrative data collections to promote national consistency and comparability of data and reporting. One of the main functions of the AIHW is to work with the states and territories to improve the quality of administrative data and, where possible, to compile national data sets based on data from each state and territory, to analyse these data sets and disseminate information and statistics. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Act 1987, in conjunction with compliance to the Privacy Act 1988, (Commonwealth of Australia) ensures that the data collections managed by the AIHW are kept securely and under the strictest conditions with respect to privacy and confidentiality. For further information see the AIHW website www.aihw.gov.au The AIHW receives, compiles, edits and verifies the data in collaboration with state and territory housing authorities. The finalised data sets are signed off by the states and territories and used by the AIHW for reporting and analysis. |
Timeliness: | The reference period for the PRA data collection is based on the financial year (ending 30 June). Data are collected and published annually. The specific reference period for these data is 2016–17. |
Accessibility: | Data are reported in the AIHW’s annual Housing assistance in Australia reports. Users can request additional disaggregation of data which are not available online or in reports (subject to the AIHW’s confidentiality policy and state and territory approval) via the AIHW’s online data request system at http://www.aihw.gov.au/our-services/data-on-request. Depending on the nature of the request, requests for access to unpublished data may also incur costs or require approval from the AIHW Ethics Committee. General enquiries about AIHW publications can be directed to [email protected]. |
Interpretability: | Metadata and definitions relating to this data source can be found in the Private rent assistance data set specification 2013-. Supplementary information can be found in the housing collection data manuals which are available upon request. |
Relevance: | The data collected are an administrative by-product of the management of PRA programs administered by the states and territories and conform well in terms of scope, coverage and reference period. PRA, for the purpose of this collection, relates to the provision of financial assistance to enable households to access and maintain accommodation in the private rental market and includes:
The collection excludes non-financial assistance, for example, tenancy support services and tenancy guarantees. |
Accuracy: | There are known accuracy issues with the data collected.
State- and territory-specific issues: Western Australia
South Australia Australian Capital Territory
Northern Territory
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Coherence: | Differences in the data collected and which records are included or excluded from a calculation in different states and territories affect the coherence of the output comparisons across states and territories. Coherence over time has been affected by changes in the methodology. For example, numbers of households assisted by rental grants, subsidies and relief cannot be directly compared with figures produced prior to 2011–12 due to a change in methodology. Income details (gross weekly household income and principal source of income) are at the time of application with the following exceptions:
Weekly rent is at time of application with the following exceptions:
State- and territory-specific issues: New South Wales
Victoria
Queensland
Western Australia
South Australia
Australian Capital Territory
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Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Related metadata references: | Supersedes Private Rent Assistance Collection, 2015-16; Quality Statement AIHW Data Quality Statements, Superseded 06/06/2018 Has been superseded by Private Rent Assistance Collection, 2017-18; Quality Statement AIHW Data Quality Statements, Superseded 15/01/2020 |