Accommodation period

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
METEOR identifier:	357096
Registration status:	Community Services (retired), Standard 30/11/2007 Homelessness, Standard 23/08/2010 Housing assistance, Standard 23/08/2010
Definition:	The period during which a client was in supported accommodation. A client may have no accommodation periods or one or more accommodation periods within a support period.

Collection and usage attributes
Guide for use:	The dates on which each accommodation period began and ended during the support period are collected for clients but not for accompanying children. However, it can be reasonably assumed that an accompanying child will have the same accommodation period start and end dates as their parent(s) or guardians(s) in the majority of cases.
Relational attributes
Metadata items which use this glossary item:	Service event—accommodation period end date, DDMMYYYY Community Services (retired), Standard 30/11/2007 Homelessness, Superseded 10/08/2018 Housing assistance, Standard 23/08/2010 Service event—accommodation period start date, DDMMYYYY Community Services (retired), Standard 30/11/2007 Homelessness, Superseded 10/08/2018 Housing assistance, Standard 23/08/2010 Service event—accommodation period start date, DDMMYYYY Homelessness, Standard 10/08/2018