Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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METEOR identifier: | 302038 |
Registration status: | Housing assistance, Standard 10/02/2006 |
Definition: | The numeric descriptor for a postal delivery area, aligned with locality, suburb or place for the address of a dwelling. |
Context: | Postcode is an important part of a dwelling's postal address and facilitates written communication. It is one of a number of geographic identifiers that can be used to determine a geographic location. Postcode may assist with uniquely identifying a dwelling. |
Dwelling—Australian postcode
Data Element Concept Attributes
Object Class attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
Object class: | Dwelling |
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Synonymous names: | Dwelling |
METEOR identifier: | 268982 |
Registration status: | Community Services (retired), Standard 01/03/2005 Housing assistance, Superseded 30/08/2017 |
Definition: | A structure or a discrete space within a structure intended for people to live in or where a person or group of people live. Thus a structure that people actually live in is a dwelling regardless of its intended purpose, but a vacant structure is only a dwelling if intended for human residence. A dwelling may include one or more rooms used as an office or workshop provided the dwelling is in residential use. |
Context: | Dwellings are the main counting unit in the housing sector. Dwellings are reported for a variety of purposes including number of untenantable or tenantable, and occupied or vacant dwellings. Dwellings may be owned and/or, managed, and/or available for a use by a specific program, including head-leased stock from private and government sources. A dwelling includes a boarding house building and boarding house units. |
Specialisation of: | Environmental factors |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | Boarding house rooms or beds are not identified as separate dwellings unless they are self-contained. Self-contained rooms are therefore defined as units and are counted as a separate dwelling. For the public rental housing and state owned and managed Indigenous housing data collections, the number of tenancy (rental) units is used as a proxy for counting the number of dwellings. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | National Housing Data Development Committee |
Origin: | Australian Bureau of Statistics: 2001 Census Data Dictionary (Cat. no. 2901.0). Reference through: http://www.abs.gov.au. |
Property attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
Property: | Australian postcode |
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METEOR identifier: | 269316 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 01/03/2005 Community Services (retired), Standard 01/03/2005 Housing assistance, Standard 22/10/2005 Early Childhood, Standard 21/05/2010 Homelessness, Standard 23/08/2010 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 31/10/2012 WA Health, Standard 06/03/2014 Disability, Standard 07/10/2014 Indigenous, Standard 13/03/2015 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 Tasmanian Health, Standard 01/09/2016 Children and Families, Standard 22/11/2016 Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired), Standard 20/06/2018 Youth Justice, Standard 15/02/2022 Australian Teacher Workforce Data Oversight Board, Standard 30/08/2022 Aged Care, Standard 30/06/2023 Commonwealth Department of Health, Retired 19/10/2023 |
Definition: | The numeric descriptor for a postal delivery area, aligned with locality, suburb or place. |
Context: | Postcode is an important part of a postal address and facilitates written communication. It is one of a number of geographic identifiers that can be used to determine a geographic location. |
Property group: | Location characteristics |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Data element concept attributes
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | National Housing Data Development Committee |
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Relational attributes
Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Address—Australian postcode Aged Care, Standard 30/06/2023 Australian Teacher Workforce Data Oversight Board, Standard 30/08/2022 Children and Families, Standard 22/11/2016 Commonwealth Department of Health, Retired 19/10/2023 Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired), Standard 20/06/2018 Community Services (retired), Standard 06/02/2012 Disability, Standard 07/10/2014 Early Childhood, Standard 09/03/2012 Health, Standard 07/12/2011 Homelessness, Standard 02/05/2013 Housing assistance, Standard 02/05/2013 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 31/10/2012 Indigenous, Standard 13/03/2015 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 Tasmanian Health, Standard 01/09/2016 WA Health, Standard 06/03/2014 Youth Justice, Standard 15/02/2022 |
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Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept: | Dwelling—Australian postcode code (Postcode datafile) {NNNN} Housing assistance, Superseded 01/05/2013 |