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Household

Object Class Attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termObject Class
METEOR identifier:Help on this term351492
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Community Services (retired), Standard 27/04/2007
Definition:Help on this termOne or more persons, at least one of whom is at least 15 years of age, usually resident in the same private dwelling.
Specialisation of:Help on this termPerson/group of persons

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:Help on this term

Together with family, household is considered one of the basic groups of social aggregation. Information on household numbers and composition aids in identifying groups within the population such as Indigenous households or the number of people living alone.

For the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement (CSHA) data collections, the number of tenancy agreements is a practical proxy for calculating the number of households receiving housing assistance.

The persons in the group may pool their incomes and have a common budget to a greater or lesser extent: they may be related or unrelated persons, or a combination of both.

Only usual residents of the household are included as members of the household. Visitors to a household are, by definition, excluded from the household.

Source and reference attributes

Origin:Help on this term

CSHA Public rental housing data manual 2001-02

Reference documents:Help on this term

Australian Bureau of Statistics. Family, household and income unit variables. Cat. no. 1286.0. Canberra: ABS. Viewed on 29/09/2006.

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Supersedes Household
  • Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired), Standard 20/06/2018
  • Community Services (retired), Superseded 27/04/2007
  • Health, Standard 04/05/2005
  • Housing assistance, Standard 01/03/2005
Supersedes Household family
  • Community Services (retired), Superseded 27/04/2007
Data Element Concepts implementing this Object Class:Help on this term
Household—family composition
  • Community Services (retired), Standard 27/04/2007
Household—household type
  • Community Services (retired), Standard 27/04/2007
Household—number of parents of child
  • Community Services (retired), Standard 15/09/2007
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