Unincorporated business

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
METEOR identifier:	327462
Registration status:	Community Services (retired), Standard 04/04/2006 Homelessness, Standard 23/08/2010 Housing assistance, Standard 23/08/2010
Definition:	A business that does not possess a separate legal identity from its owner(s). The owner(s) bear full liability for any action or inaction of the business: they may sue and be sued for business activity or inactivity. Unincorporated enterprises include sole proprietorships, partnerships and family trusts.

Source and reference attributes
Origin:	Statistical concepts library, Standards for Social, Labour and Demographic Variables, Cash Income Variables, Framework for Standard Cash Income Variables, Classification and Coding, Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Reference documents:	Reference online through: Ausstats Standards for Social, Labour and Demographic Variables, Cash Income Variables
Relational attributes
Metadata items which use this glossary item:	Person—source of cash income (all) code NN Community Services (retired), Standard 29/04/2006 Person—source of cash income (all), code NNNN Homelessness, Standard 23/08/2010 Housing assistance, Standard 23/08/2010 Person—source of cash income (all), housing assistance code N[.N.N.N] Housing assistance, Standard 01/05/2013 Person—source of cash income (principal), code N Community Services (retired), Standard 29/04/2006 Public Housing and State Owned and Managed Indigenous housing (PH & SOMIH) DSS 2018- Housing assistance, Standard 10/05/2019 Public rental housing DSS 2013-14 Housing assistance, Superseded 30/08/2017 Public rental housing DSS 2014-17 Housing assistance, Superseded 19/12/2017 Public rental housing DSS 2017-18 Housing assistance, Superseded 10/05/2019 Source of cash income code N Community Services (retired), Standard 29/04/2006 Source of cash income code NN Community Services (retired), Standard 29/04/2006 State owned and managed Indigenous housing (SOMIH) DSS 2013-14 Housing assistance, Superseded 30/08/2017 State owned and managed Indigenous housing (SOMIH) DSS 2014-17 Housing assistance, Standard 30/08/2017 State owned and managed Indigenous housing (SOMIH) DSS 2017-18 Housing assistance, Superseded 05/05/2019