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National Affordability Housing Agreement: 3: Proportion of Australians who are homeless, 2010

Indicator Attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termIndicator
Indicator type:Help on this termIndicator
Short name:Help on this termProportion of Australians who are homeless, 2010.
METEOR identifier:Help on this term410009
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Homelessness, Standard 16/02/2011
Description:Help on this termThe proportion of Australians who are homeless (primary homeless + secondary homeless + tertiary homeless, as defined by Chamberlain and MacKenzie in Counting the Homeless 2006).
Indicator set:Help on this term

National Affordable Housing Agreement (2010)
Homelessness, Standard 16/02/2011

Outcome area:Help on this termPeople who are homeless or at risk of homelessness achieve sustainable housing and social inclusion
Homelessness, Recorded 27/06/2016
Housing assistance, Recorded 27/06/2016
Quality statement:Help on this termNational Affordable Housing Agreement: 3:Proportion of Australians who are homeless, 2010 QS Homelessness, Standard 16/02/2011

Collection and usage attributes

Population group age from:Help on this termTotal Australian population.
Population group age to:Help on this termTotal Australian population.
Computation description:Help on this termNumber of people who are homeless / Number of Australians.
Numerator:Help on this termNumber of people who are homeless.
Numerator data elements:Help on this term
Data Element / Data Set
Data Element / Data Set

Data SourceHelp on this term

ABS 2006 Census of Population and Housing

Data Element / Data Set

Data SourceHelp on this term

Counting the Homeless 2006 national and state and territory reports.

Data Element / Data Set

Data SourceHelp on this term

AIHW Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP) National Data Collection 2007-08

Data Element / Data Set

Data SourceHelp on this term

National Census of Homeless School Students 2006

Denominator:Help on this termNumber of Australians.
Denominator data elements:Help on this term
Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Person—area of usual residence, geographical location code (ASGC 2006) NNNNN

Data SourceHelp on this term

ABS 2006 Census of Population and Housing

Disaggregation data elements:Help on this term
Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Homelessness three tier classification and definition of homelessness as defined by Chamberlain and MacKenzie (primary homeless, secondary homeless, and tertiary homeless).

Data SourceHelp on this term

Counting the Homeless 2006 national and state and territory reports.

Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Person—Australian state/territory identifier, code N

Data SourceHelp on this term

ABS 2006 Census of Population and Housing

Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Person—date of birth, DDMMYYYY

Data SourceHelp on this term

ABS 2006 Census of Population and Housing

Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Person—sex, code N

Data SourceHelp on this term

ABS 2006 Census of Population and Housing

Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Person—Indigenous status, code N

Data SourceHelp on this term

ABS 2006 Census of Population and Housing

Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Person—area of usual residence, geographical location code (ASGC 2006) NNNNN

Data SourceHelp on this term

ABS 2006 Census of Population and Housing

Comments:Help on this term

2006 Census data (not adjusted by undercount estimates).

No data is currently available for the numerator number of homeless Australia’s for 2007-2008 and 2008-2009.

The latest data that are available refer to year 2006-2007 (specifically with the reference date 8 August 2006_ and appear in the Chamberlain and MacKenzie national and state/territory Counting the Homeless 2006 reports. The estimates are based on data from the 2006 Census, 2006-2007 Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP) and the 3rd National Census of Homeless School Students).


At the AIHW/ABS hosted Housing and Homelessness data Workshop (30 March 2009) jurisdictional representatives agreed that the definition of homelessness for COAG reporting purposes should be as used in the National  Partnership Agreement on Homelessness. It was also agreed that long term residents of caravan parks should be enumerated but are not within scope of the formal definition for homelessness.


In the National Partnership Agreement (NPA) on homelessness, homeless people are described in terms of three categories. The tree categories are consistent with those used in Counting the Homeless 2006 reports:

  • Primary homelessness means people without conventional accommodation, including people living on the streets and in other public places such as parks, squatting in buildings, or using vehicles for temporary shelter (the term rough sleeping, which also appears in the NPA, is taken to be synonymous with primary homelessness.)
  • Secondary homelessness means people staying in emergency or transitional accommodation and people residing temporarily with other households because they have no accommodation of their own. It also includes people staying in emergency or transitional accommodation provided by governments and non-government organisations and people residing in boarding houses for 12 weeks or less.
  • Tertiary homelessness means people living in boarding houses on a medium to long term basis for over 12 weeks.

Representational attributes

Representation class:Help on this termRate
Data type:Help on this termPoint in time
Unit of measure:Help on this termPerson

Indicator conceptual framework

Framework and dimensions:Help on this termShelter and housing

Data source attributes

Data sources:Help on this term
Data Source

ABS 2006 Census of Population and Housing

Frequency

Every 5 years

Data custodian

Australian Bureau of Statistics

Data Source

Counting the Homeless 2006 national and state and territory reports.

Frequency

Variable

Data Source

AIHW Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP) National Data Collection 2007-08

Frequency

Annual

Data custodian

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

Data Source

National Census of Homeless School Students 2006

Frequency

Ad hoc

Accountability attributes

Reporting requirements:Help on this term

Intergovernmental Agreement on Federal Financial Relations for the National Affordability Housing Agreement (NAHA), annual. 

Organisation responsible for providing data:Help on this term

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

Accountability:Help on this term

SCRGSP (Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision) 2009,
National Agreement performance information 2008-09: National Affordable Housing
Agreement, Productivity Commission, Canberra.

The report was released by the COAG Reform Council in 2010.

Benchmark:Help on this term

NPA on Homelessness Baseline: 104,676 Australian who are homeless in 2006.

Benchmark: By 2013 a decrease of 7% (less than 97,350 homeless people).

Further data development / collection required:Help on this termThe AIHW has been funded through the Commonwealth appropriation to develop a new national homelessness data collection which is to become operational on 1 July 2011. The new data collection will be client-based and collect data on clients receiving homelessness services as well as the nature and impact of the resulting services responses. The collection will also seek to improve and incorporate data from crisis and transitional accommodation services.
Before the new homelessness data collection is operational and ready to be used for COAG reporting, AIHW and ABS will, under the guidance of HHIMG and in collaboration with other experts, put in place a development plan to further improve the interim proxy measure for the next two CRC reporting rounds.
Suggestions have also been made on reviewing the methodology of the Counting the Homeless reports which will include a review of the three-tier homelessness categorisation and definition of homelessness. The review will be conducted under the guidance of HHIMG and in collaboration with FaHCSIA, AIHW, ABS and subject matter experts.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this termAustralian Institute of Health and Welfare.
Steward:Help on this termHousing and Homelessness Information Management Group

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Has been superseded by National Affordable Housing Agreement: Indicator 3-Proportion of Australians who are homeless, 2011
  • Homelessness, Recorded 27/09/2011
  • Housing assistance, Recorded 27/09/2011
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