Dependent student

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
METEOR identifier:	346954
Registration status:	Community Services (retired), Standard 31/08/2007
Definition:	A person who: is the natural, adopted, step, or foster child of a person in the household is 15–24 years of age attends a secondary or tertiary educational institution as a full-time student has no partner or child of his/her own usually resident in the same household.
Context:	Family structure

Collection and usage attributes
Comments:	This is a standard statistical unit for analyses of economic well being, and in the community services context is an important measure in assessing the needs and circumstances of individuals and families. A dependent child must be attached to a nominal parent with whom he/she usually resides. This parent must be over 15 years of age.
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Bureau of Statistics
Origin:	Australian Bureau of Statistics 2001. Census Dictionary. Cat. no. 2901.0. Canberra: ABS.
Relational attributes
Metadata items which use this glossary item:	Dependent child Community Services (retired), Standard 31/08/2007