Person income (housing assistance) cluster

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Set Specification
METEOR identifier:	459899
Registration status:	Housing assistance, Superseded 01/05/2013
DSS type:	Data Element Cluster
Scope:	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:

Persons and Households

Collection methods:

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:

Refer to the collection period of the data set to determine the reference year for this cluster.

Source and reference attributes

Steward:

Housing and Homelessness Information Management Group

Origin:

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). Public rental housing and SOMIH national data collection: processing manual 2009-2010. Canberra: AIHW

Reference documents:

Australian 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:

Implementation in Data Set Specifications:

All attributes +

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Housing assistance, Superseded 01/05/2013

DSS specific attributes +
*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Housing assistance, Superseded 01/05/2013

DSS specific attributes +
*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.

Metadata items in this Data Set Specification

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Seq No.	Metadata item	Obligation	Max occurs
-	Dwelling—housing program type, (public rental housing/SOMIH) code N	Mandatory	1
-	Household—household identifier, X[X(14)]	Mandatory	1
-	Income unit—income unit identifier, X[X(14)]	Mandatory	1
-	Person—assessable income (weekly), total Australian currency N[NNNNN].NN *DSS specific information:* The assessable weekly income refers to the amount at June 30th.	Mandatory	1
-	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.	Mandatory	1
-	Person—gross income (weekly), total Australian currency N[NNNNN].NN *DSS specific information:* The gross weekly income refers to the amount at June 30th.	Mandatory	1
-	Person—person identifier (household), X[X(14)]	Mandatory	1
-	Person—principal source of cash income, housing assistance code N[.N.N]	Mandatory	1
-	Person—source of cash income (all) (jurisdiction), identifier NNN	Mandatory	1
-	Person—source of cash income (all) (jurisdiction), text X[X(14)]	Mandatory	1
-	Person—source of cash income (all), (housing assistance) code N[.N.N]	Mandatory	1

Person income (housing assistance) cluster

Identifying and definitional attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Source and reference attributes

Relational attributes

Metadata items in this Data Set Specification

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