Person income (housing assistance) cluster

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Set Specification
METEOR identifier:Help on this term459899
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Housing assistance, Superseded 01/05/2013
DSS type:Help on this termData Element Cluster
Scope:Help on this term

The Person income cluster describes income records for week ending June 30th, for all persons in households ongoing at June 30th, and whose details are provided in the Person cluster.

Collection and usage attributes

Statistical unit:Help on this termPersons and Households
Collection methods:Help on this term

State and territory housing authorities provide the data to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare for national collation on an annual basis.

Include:

  • Multiple income records for persons with different income types.
  • Income records for persons in households in dwellings headleased and managed by state housing authority.

Exclude:

  • Income records for persons in households residing in dwellings owned but not administered by the jurisdiction (e.g. leased to other program areas and not administered by state housing authority).

Data qualifications:

  • No rounding should be applied to income amounts

Comments:Help on this termRefer to the collection period of the data set to determine the reference year for this cluster.

Source and reference attributes

Steward:Help on this termHousing and Homelessness Information Management Group
Origin:Help on this termAustralian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). Public rental housing and SOMIH national data collection: processing manual 2009-2010. Canberra: AIHW
Reference documents:Help on this termAustralian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 2006. National Housing Assistance Data Dictionary Version 3 (Housing Assistance Data Development Series). AIHW cat no. HOU 147. Canberra: AIHW.

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Has been superseded by Person income (housing assistance) cluster
  • Housing assistance, Superseded 30/08/2017
Implementation in Data Set Specifications:Help on this term

Public rental housing DSS 2009-10
Housing assistance, Superseded 01/05/2013

Implementation start date: 01/07/2009

Implementation end date: 30/06/2010

Conditional obligation:

Conditional on the basis of a household tenanting a public rental housing dwelling during the collection period.

State owned and managed Indigenous housing (SOMIH) DSS 2009-10
Housing assistance, Superseded 01/05/2013

Implementation start date: 01/07/2009

Implementation end date: 30/06/2010

Conditional obligation:

Conditional on the basis of a household tenanting a SOMIH dwelling during the collection period.

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Seq No.Help on this termMetadata itemHelp on this termObligationHelp on this termMax occursHelp on this term
-Dwelling—housing program type, (public rental housing/SOMIH) code NMandatory1
-Household—household identifier, X[X(14)]Mandatory1
-Income unit—income unit identifier, X[X(14)]Mandatory1
-Person—assessable income (weekly), total Australian currency N[NNNNN].NN

DSS specific information:

The assessable weekly income refers to the amount at June 30th.
Mandatory1
-Person—Australian state/territory identifier, code N

DSS specific information:

Note: Code 9 'Other territories (Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Christmas Island and Jervis Bay Territory)' is not collected in the Person income (Public rental housing and SOMIH) cluster.
Mandatory1
-Person—gross income (weekly), total Australian currency N[NNNNN].NN

DSS specific information:

The gross weekly income refers to the amount at June 30th.
Mandatory1
-Person—person identifier (household), X[X(14)]Mandatory1
-Person—principal source of cash income, housing assistance code N[.N.N]Mandatory1
-Person—source of cash income (all) (jurisdiction), identifier NNNMandatory1
-Person—source of cash income (all) (jurisdiction), text X[X(14)]Mandatory1
-Person—source of cash income (all), (housing assistance) code N[.N.N]Mandatory1