Housing assistance agency—recurrent expenditure (other non-employee expenses), total Australian currency N[N(9)]

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Element
Short name:Help on this termRecurrent expenditure
METEOR identifier:Help on this term270461
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  • Housing assistance, Retired 10/02/2006

Data element concept attributes

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Data element concept:Housing assistance agency—recurrent expenditure (other non-employee expenses)
METEOR identifier:Help on this term269842
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Housing assistance, Standard 01/03/2005
Definition:Help on this termTotal other non-employee expenses (Government finance statistics codes 1221, 1222, 1224, 1228).
Context:Help on this term

To enable analysis of welfare expenditure at the national level.

There is a considerable interest in expenditure data at the national level from many different potential users. This metadata item is based on relevant sections of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Economic Type Framework (ETF) of the Government Finance Statistics (GFS) Classifications. They summarise the broad reporting requirements of the government sector for Public Finance Statistics. As part of the reporting requirements for Public Finance Statistics, governments need to obtain certain information from funded organisations.

This metadata item is presented in the interests of facilitating reporting. The ETF is based on established accounting principles and specifies an operating statement, cash flow statement, reconciliation statement, supplementary statement, intra-unit transfers other than revaluations and accrued transactions, revaluations and other changes in the volume of assets and, a balance sheet.

Object class:Help on this termHousing assistance agency
Property:Help on this termRecurrent expenditure

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this termAustralian Institute of Health and Welfare
Origin:Help on this termABS: Government finance statistics 1998, Cat. No. 5514.0

Value domain attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Value domain:Total Australian currency N[N(9)]
METEOR identifier:Help on this term270772
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Standard 04/08/2016
  • Housing assistance, Standard 01/03/2005
Definition:Help on this term

Total number of Australian dollars.

Representational attributes

Representation class:Help on this termTotal
Data type:Help on this termCurrency
Format:Help on this termN[N(9)]
Maximum character length:Help on this term10
Unit of measure:Help on this termAustralian currency (AU$)

Data element attributes

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Collection methods:Help on this term

The Government Finance Statistics (GFS) classifications requires measurement on an accrual accounting basis rather than on a cash accounting basis.

Expenditure is usually measured for an accounting period, typically a financial year (1 July to 30 June the following year).

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this termAustralian Institute of Health and Welfare

Relational attributes

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Supersedes PDFRecurrent expenditure, version 1, DE, NHADD, NHDAMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (18.7 KB) No registration status