Person—number of people in the presenting unit, total N[N]

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element
Short name:	Number of people in presenting unit
METEOR identifier:	401596
Registration status:	Homelessness, Superseded 10/08/2018 Housing assistance, Standard 23/08/2010
Definition:	The size of the presenting unit, based on the total number of people seeking specialist homelessness services together.
Data Element Concept:	Person—number of people in the presenting unit

Value domain attributes
Representational attributes
Representation class:	Total
Data type:	Number
Format:	N[N]
Maximum character length:	2
Unit of measure:	Person
Data element attributes
Collection and usage attributes
Guide for use:	This data element captures the size of the presenting unit, children are included in this total.
Collection methods:	How many people are presenting as a unit?
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	Has been superseded by Person—number of people presenting, total N[N] Homelessness, Standard 10/08/2018
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: All attributes +	Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2011 Housing assistance, Superseded 01/05/2013 Homelessness, Superseded 01/05/2013 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2011 Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2012-13 Homelessness, Superseded 01/05/2013 Housing assistance, Superseded 01/05/2013 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2012 Implementation end date: 30/06/2013 Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2013-14 Homelessness, Superseded 26/08/2014 Housing assistance, Superseded 26/08/2014 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2013 Implementation end date: 30/06/2014 DSS specific information: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is collected at the date of presentation. Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2014-15 Homelessness, Superseded 24/11/2016 Housing assistance, Superseded 24/11/2016 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2014 Implementation end date: 30/06/2015 DSS specific information: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is collected at the date of presentation. Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2015-17 Homelessness, Superseded 24/11/2016 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2015 Implementation end date: 30/06/2017 DSS specific information: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is collected at the date of presentation. Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2017-19 Homelessness, Superseded 10/08/2018 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2017 Implementation end date: 30/06/2019 DSS specific information: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is collected at the date of presentation.