Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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| METEOR identifier: | 302666 |
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| 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. |
Income unit—income unit identifier
Object Class attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
| Object class: | Income unit |
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| 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:
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 |
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| 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 |
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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| Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Income unit—income unit identifier
Supersedes Income unit—income unit identifier
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| Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept: | Income unit—income unit identifier, X[X(14)]
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