Household—household composition, code N{.N}
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Household composition |
Synonymous names: | Household composition |
METEOR identifier: | 270147 |
Registration status: | Housing assistance, Superseded 10/02/2006 |
Data Element Concept: | Household—household composition |
Value Domain: | Household composition code N{.N} |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | It should be noted that only usual residents of a household are considered when describing and categorising households by Household type. Visitors to a household are, by definition, excluded from the household. Usual residence of members of a household is defined as '...that address at which the person has lived or intends to live for a total of 6 months of more' (Census Dictionary 1996). Other households, including multiple family households may be broken down further to show households with only family members present and those with non-family members present. A family household with only family members present is a household where every individual forms a familial relationship to one of the families belonging to the household. This relates to the ABS Household type definition. Household composition is not used for the Commonwealth State Housing Agreement proxy occupancy standard. Refer instead to Household—household group, code N. |
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Comments: | For the ABS the household is analysed on the basis of the existence or non-existence of family structure and the presence of unrelated household members, rather than on the basis of sex or age, for example |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Origin: | ABS: Standards for statistics on families. Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Cat. No. 1286.0 ABS: Directory of concepts and standards for social, labour and demographic statistics, 1995 AIHW: Data Standardisation Project for the development of a national unit record public housing data set, 1998 |
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Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Household—household composition, code N{.N} Housing assistance, Superseded 04/06/2013 Is re-engineered from Household composition, version 2, DE, NHADD, NHDAMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (17.5 KB) No registration status |