Income unit—income unit identifier

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element Concept
METEOR identifier:	302666
Registration status:	Housing assistance, Superseded 30/08/2017
Definition:	A unique identifier (within a household) assigned to an income unit within a housing assistance agency.
Context:	Income units are one of the main counting units in housing assistance data and as such it is essential to be able to uniquely identify them.

Object Class attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Object class:	Income unit
Definition:	One person or a group of related persons within a household, whose command over income is shared, or any person living in a non private dwelling who is in receipt of personal income.
Context:	Income units are restricted to relationships of marriage (registered or de facto) and of parent/dependant who usually reside in the same household. This means that an income unit can be defined as: a married couple or sole parent, and dependent children only a married couple only with no dependent children present a person who is not related to any other household member either by marriage or by the parent/dependant relationship. This is the standard statistical unit for analyses of economic wellbeing, and can be an important measure in assessing the needs and circumstances of individuals and families.
Specialisation of:	Person/group of persons
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	National Housing Data Development Committee

Property attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Property:	Income unit identifier
Definition:	A sequence of characters which identify an income unit.
Property group:	Identifier 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

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:	Supersedes Income unit—income unit identifier Housing assistance, Superseded 10/02/2006 Has been superseded by Income unit—income unit identifier Housing assistance, Standard 30/08/2017
Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept:	Income unit—income unit identifier, X[X(14)] Housing assistance, Superseded 30/08/2017