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Private rent assistance DSS 2009-10

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Set Specification
METEOR identifier:Help on this term385238
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Housing assistance, Superseded 01/05/2013
DSS type:Help on this termData Set Specification (DSS)
Scope:Help on this term

Private rent assistance relates to the provision of financial assistance to enable households to access and maintain accommodation in the private rental market and includes:

  • bond loans
  • rental grants
  • rental subsidies
  • relocation expenses
  • other assistance grants.

The collection excludes non-financial assistance, for example, tenancy support services and tenancy guarantees.

Collection and usage attributes

Statistical unit:Help on this termHouseholds
Guide for use:Help on this termHouseholds receiving ongoing assistance should be counted once for the financial year only for each program type where assistance was provided—regardless of which financial year assistance commenced.
Collection methods:Help on this term

Include:

  • All households who received private rent assistance during the 2009–10 financial year.

Exclude:

  • Households with outstanding monies to repay for assistance provided in a previous financial year, where no new assistance was provided for year ending 30 June 2010.

Jurisdictions are requested to provide details of all programs of private rent assistance (financial only) available to households during the 2009–10 reporting period. An Excel spreadsheet is provided for this purpose and includes the following fields:

  • name of program
  • description of program
  • eligibility criteria.
Implementation start date:Help on this term01/07/2009
Implementation end date:Help on this term30/06/2010
Comments:Help on this termAs part of the 2009–10 HHIMG work program, redevelopment of the private rent assistance data collection was agreed to, in line with the new reporting requirements under the National Affordable Housing Agreement (NAHA). Subsequently, HHIMG members agreed to a unit record level collection for private rent assistance, and to the associated data items for collection and reporting for the 2009-10 financial year.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this termAIHW
Steward:Help on this termHousing and Homelessness Information Management Group
Origin:Help on this termAustralian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). Private rent assistance data collection, Jurisdiction manual 2009-2010. Canberra: AIHW.

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Has been superseded by Private rent assistance DSS 2010-11
  • Housing assistance, Superseded 01/05/2013
Implementation in Data Set Specifications:Help on this term
All attributes +

Housing Assistance Data Dictionary 2009-2010Housing assistance, Recorded 01/10/2012

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2009

Implementation end date: 30/06/2010


Metadata items in this Data Set SpecificationHelp on this term

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Seq No.Help on this termMetadata itemHelp on this termObligationHelp on this termMax occursHelp on this term
-Dwelling—Australian postcode code (Postcode datafile) {NNNN}Mandatory1
-Dwelling—Australian state/territory identifier, code N

DSS specific information:

In the Private rent assistance 2009-10 collection, the value Other territories (Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Christmas Island and Jervis Bay Territory) is not used.  
Mandatory1
-Dwelling—suburb/town/locality name, text [A(50)]

DSS specific information:

In the Private rent assistance 2009-10 collection, the field for suburb name may be truncated to 15 characters in the collection system in some states and territories.
Mandatory1
-Household—financial assistance amount received, total Australian currency N[NNNNN].NN

DSS specific information:

Only assistance provided between 01/07/2009 and 30/06/2010 should be included. Assistance before or after this date should be excluded.

For those households who commenced receiving assistance in a previous financial year (i.e. prior to 1 July 2009) and they continued to receive this assistance, include only the value of assistance provided for the year ending 30 June 2010 (i.e. disregard the value of assistance provided prior to 1 July 2009).

Mandatory1
-Household—gross income (weekly), total Australian currency N[NNNNN].NNMandatory1
-Household—household identifier, X[X(14)]

DSS specific information:

For the purposes of this collection, a unique household identifier may be assigned by jurisdictions by prefixing the assistance agency’s unique household identifier with a unique agency identifier.  This modification provides for the contingency that assistance agencies coincidentally assign identical identifiers that would otherwise lead to distinct households having the same household identifier.

Mandatory1
-Household—Indigenous status, yes/no code NMandatory1
-Household—principal source of cash income, (housing assistance) code N[.N.N]

DSS specific information:

Code  ‘5’ is not a permissible value in this collection.
Mandatory1
-Household—rent paid (weekly), total Australian currency N[NNNNN].NNMandatory1
-Person—date of birth, DDMMYYYY

DSS specific information:

This collection requires a non-standard format for this data item: DD/MM/YYYY.

This item refers to the date of birth of the main applicant.

Mandatory1
-Person—person identifier (household), X[X(14)]Mandatory1
-Person—sex, code NMandatory1
-Service event—assistance received date, DDMMYYYY

DSS specific information:

For those households who commenced receiving ongoing  assistance in a previous financial year (i.e. prior to 1 July 2009) and they continued to receive this assistance, report the originating date of the assistance (i.e. the date the household first received the assistance).

Mandatory1
-Service event—assistance type, private rent assistance code N[N]

DSS specific information:

The permissible values in the PRA collection differ from the standard.  PRA permissible values are:

Value

Meaning

1

Bond loan

2

Rental grant-one off

3

Ongoing rental subsidy

4

Relocation expenses

99

Other

Code '88' is not a valid code in the PRA collection.

Mandatory1
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