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Indigenous community housing dwelling address details cluster

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Set Specification
METEOR identifier:Help on this term498022
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Housing assistance, Superseded 30/08/2017
  • Indigenous, Standard 01/05/2013
DSS type:Help on this termData Element Cluster
Scope:Help on this term

The Indigenous community housing address details cluster is used to collect information pertaining to the address of dwellings included in the Indigenous Community Housing DSS.

The fields to be reported for address are:

  • Address—road number 1, road number X[6]
  • Address—road number 2, road number X[6]
  • Address—road name, text X[45]
  • Address—road type, code AA[AA]
  • Address—lot number, identifier X[XXXXX]
  • Address—suburb/town/locality name, text X[46]
  • Address—Australian postcode, code (Postcode datafile) {NNNN}
  • Address—geocode latitude, decimal degrees XN[N][.N(9)]
  • Address—geocode longitude, decimal degrees XN[NN][.N(9)]
  • Address—location descriptor, text X[50]
  • Dwelling—Australian state/territory identifier, code N
  • Dwelling—geographic remoteness, classification (ASGC-RA) N.

The unstructured address line may be used, if the dwelling address does not easily conform to the standard.

 

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Supersedes Dwelling address details cluster
  • Housing assistance, Superseded 01/05/2013
Has been superseded by Indigenous community housing dwelling address details cluster
  • Housing assistance, Standard 30/08/2017
Implementation in Data Set Specifications:Help on this term

Dwelling file cluster (Indigenous community housing)Housing assistance, Superseded 30/08/2017
Indigenous, Standard 01/05/2013

DSS specific attributes +

DSS specific information:

The data elements in this cluster provide a detailed description of the individual components used to create a dwelling address as described by AS4590. This cluster enables the collection of  street name, street number, suburb, postcode and state/territory identifier etc.

Additional items have been provided to describe other common aspects of address, such as building or complex name, post office boxes etc.

In the Indigenous Community Housing collection, the dwelling address details were collected in an alternative manner:

  • House/lot number - 4 numeric characters
  • Street name - 40 alphanumeric characters
  • Suburb - 15 alphanumeric characters
  • Postcode - 4 numeric characters. Unknown values recorded as "U"
  • Dwelling Longitude - 15 alphanumeric characters. Unknown values recorded as "U"
  • Dwelling Latitude - 15 alphanumeric characters. Unknown values recorded as "U"
  • Dwelling remoteness - ASCG codeset and Unknown values recorded as "U"
  • Dwelling other (location) - 40 alphanumeric characters.

Metadata items in this Data Set SpecificationHelp on this term

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Seq No.Help on this termMetadata itemHelp on this termObligationHelp on this termMax occursHelp on this term
-Address—Australian postcode, Australian postcode code (Postcode datafile) {NNNN}

DSS specific information:

Unknown postcodes are recorded as "U".
Mandatory1
-Address—geocode latitude, decimal degrees XN[N][.N(9)]

DSS specific information:

Unknown values should be recorded as "U".
Mandatory1
-Address—geocode longitude, decimal degrees XN[NN][.N(9)]

DSS specific information:

Unknown values should be recorded as "U".
Mandatory1
-Address—location descriptor, text X[X(49)]

Conditional obligation:

This is conditional on additional information being required for the dwelling address, other than street number, street name, postcode etc.
Conditional1
-Address—lot number, identifier X[XXXXX]

Conditional obligation:

This conditional on the dwelling address being a lot number.
Conditional1
-Address—road name, text X[X(44)]Mandatory1
-Address—road number 1, road number XXXXXXMandatory1
-Address—road number 2, road number XXXXXX

Conditional obligation:

This is conditional on the road number being a ranged number.
Conditional1
-Address—road type, code AA[AA]Mandatory1
-Address—suburb/town/locality name, text X[X(45)]Mandatory1
-Address—unstructured address line, text X[X(49)]

Conditional obligation:

The unstructured address line may be used, if the dwelling address does not easily conform to the standard structure.
Conditional1
-Dwelling—Australian state/territory identifier, code N

DSS specific information:

The dwelling state/territory identifer is recorded using the following abbreviations. Code "9" is not used by this collection.

METeOR ValueMETeor LabelCHO Recorded Value
1New South WalesNSW
2VictoriaVic
3QueenslandQld
4Western AustraliaWA
5South AustraliaSA
6TasmaniaTas
7Australian Capital TerritoryACT
8Northern TerritoryNT
9

Other territories (Cocos (Keeling)

Islands, Christmas Island and Jervis

Bay Territory)

-

Mandatory1
-Dwelling—geographic remoteness, classification (ASGC-RA) NMandatory1
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