Person—residential setting, disability code N[N]{.N}

Identifying and definitional attributes

• Community Services (retired), Standard 10/04/2013 [Non Dictionary]
• Disability, Standard 13/08/2015

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Collection and usage attributes

CODE 1     Private residence

A largely self-contained dwelling intended for occupation by one or more usual residents, or movable, makeshift or improvised dwelling occupied by one or more usual residents, regardless of whether the dwelling is owned, being purchased or being rented privately, publicly or through a community organisation.

Includes: A range of dwelling types, such as houses, flats, units, caravans, mobile homes, boats etc.

CODE 5     Public place/temporary shelter

Includes: Public places such as streets and parks, as well a temporary shelters such as bus shelters or camps and accommodation outside legal tenure arrangements, such as squats.

CODE 6     Domestic-scale supported living facility

Community living settings in which service users reside in a facility that provides support in some way by staff or volunteers. This category includes group homes, cluster apartments where a support worker lives on site, community residential apartments, congregate care arrangements, etc. Domestic-scale supported living settings may or may not have 24 hour supervision and care.

Includes:  Smaller domestic-scale supported accommodation facilities (less than 7 people) which may or may not have 24-hour supervision or care.

Excludes: Independent living units in retirement villages and community psychiatric facilities.

CODE 7     Supported accommodation facility

Settings in which service users reside in an accommodation facility which provides board or lodging for a number of people and which has support services provided on what is usually a 24 hour basis by rostered care workers.

Excludes: Smaller supported accommodation facilities (less than 7 people) which may or may not have 24-hour supervision or care.

CODE 9.8 Other hospital

Includes: Multi-purpose services

CODE 10.3      Residential aged care facility

Includes: Aged care hostels

CODE 88     Other residential setting

Includes: Children under a court or guardianship order with no usual address.

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

The 'usual' place of residence is the place where the person has lived for the most amount of time over the past three months.

If the person stays in a particular place of accommodation for four or more days a week over a period, that place of residence would be the person's usual place of residence. In practice, receiving an answer to questioning about a person's usual residence may be difficult to achieve. The place the person perceives as their usual accommodation will often be the best approximation of their usual residence.

The National Disability Agreement (NDA) 2010-20120 specifically aims to assist people with disability to live as independently as possible, by helping them to establish stable and sustainable living arrangements, increasing their choices, and improving their health and wellbeing.

Under the NDA, services are provided to support people with disability in independent living and community access.

Linking human service outcomes with people's housing situations has been identified as an important step in providing better targeted services. Collecting information about residential setting also gives an indication of the type and variety of settings to which agencies deliver their services when providing assistance. This metadata item assists when making comparisons of data from administrative data collections with data from the five yearly Census of Population and Housing, and in analyses of de-institutionalisation.

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