Public Rental Housing Data Collection, 2015–16; Quality Statement
Data Quality Statement Attributes
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Metadata item type: | Data Quality Statement |
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METEOR identifier: | 656267 |
Registration status: | AIHW Data Quality Statements, Superseded 22/12/2017 |
Data quality | |
Data quality statement summary: | Description Summary
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Institutional environment: | The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (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 jurisdiction, 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 states and territories. 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 Public Housing (PH) collection is based on the financial year (ending 30 June). The specific reference period for these data is 2015–16. |
Accessibility: | Data are reported in the AIHW's annual Housing assistance in Australia reports and the Productivity Commission's annual Report on government services. 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 https://datarequest.aihw.gov.au. 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 made to the Digital & Media Communications Unit on (02) 6244 1026 or via email to [email protected]. |
Interpretability: | Metadata and definitions relating to this data source can be found in the National housing and homelessness data dictionary (AIHW Cat no. HOU269). 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 public rental housing programs run by the states and territories and conform well in terms of scope, coverage and reference period. Classifications used for income, greatest need and vacancy reason are not consistent across the states and territories, however, the states and territories map these data to an AIHW standard. |
Accuracy: | There are known accuracy issues with the data collected:
State- and territory-specific issues: New South Wales
Western Australia
South Australia
Tasmania
Northern Territory
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Coherence: | Data for individual states and territories may not be comparable to previous years due to changes in systems and processes which have led to differences in the accuracy and completeness of the data over time. Differences between states and territories concerning incomplete or missing information, out-of-date information and coding errors can affect the coherence of the outputs. Coherence over time has also been affected by changes in methodology:
State and Territory Government housing authorities’ bedroom entitlement policies may differ from the CNOS which is used in dwelling utilisation calculations.
State- and territory-specific issues:
Tasmania
Northern Territory
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Related metadata references: | Supersedes Public Rental Housing Data Collection, 2014-15; Quality Statement AIHW Data Quality Statements, Superseded 06/01/2017 Has been superseded by Public Rental Housing Data Collection, 2016–17; Quality Statement AIHW Data Quality Statements, Superseded 02/01/2019 |