Private rent assistance DSS 2011-12

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Set Specification
METEOR identifier:	480492
Registration status:	Housing assistance, Superseded 26/08/2014
DSS type:	Data Set Specification (DSS)
Scope:	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 and • other assistance grants. The collection excludes non-financial assistance, for example, tenancy support services and tenancy guarantees.

Collection and usage attributes

Statistical unit:

Households

Guide for use:

Households 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:

Include:

all households who received private rent assistance during the 2011–12 financial year.

The value of assistance provided to a household during the 2011–12 financial year for:

all households who commenced receiving assistance for the year ending 30 June 2012 regardless of the form of assistance (i.e. whether assistance is one-off, ongoing, repayable or non-repayable)
all households who commenced receiving an ongoing form of assistance in a previous financial year (i.e. prior to 1 July 2011) and continued to receive this assistance from 1 July 2011.

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 2012
Related administrative and operational costs associated with providing the private rent assistance
The value of assistance provided to a household prior to 1 July 2011 (i.e. for households continuing to receive ongoing forms of assistance that commenced prior to 1 July 2011)
The value of outstanding repayable monies where a repayable form of assistance was provided prior to 1 July 2011 and outstanding monies had not been repaid by 30 June 2011.

Data qualifications:

For those households who commenced receiving assistance in a previous financial year (i.e. prior to 1 July 2011) and they continued to receive this assistance, include only the value of assistance provided for the year ending 30 June 2012 (i.e. disregard the value of assistance provided prior to 1 July 2011)
For those households who commenced receiving assistance in a previous financial year (i.e. prior to 1 July 2011) and they continued to receive this assistance, report the originating date of the assistance (i.e. the date the household first received the assistance).

Jurisdictions are requested to provide details of all programs of private rent assistance (financial only) available to households during the 2011-12 reporting period. An Excel spreadsheet is provided for this purpose and includes the following fields: