Person—principal source of cash income, code NNNN

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element
Short name:	Principal income source
METEOR identifier:	508411
Registration status:	Community Services (retired), Standard 10/04/2013 Disability, Standard 13/08/2015 Homelessness, Superseded 10/08/2018 Housing assistance, Standard 01/05/2013
Definition:	The source from which a person derives the greatest proportion of his/her cash income, as represented by a code.
Data Element Concept:	Person—principal source of cash income
Value Domain:	Sources of income code NNNN

Value domain attributes
Representational attributes
Classification scheme:	Australian Classification for Source of Income 2010
Representation class:	Code
Data type:	Number
Format:	NNNN
Maximum character length:	4

Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

Data element attributes
Source and reference attributes
Origin:	Australian Bureau of Statistics. Standards for Social, Labour and Demographic Variables. Viewed 3 November 2012.
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	Has been superseded by Person—principal source of cash income, code NNNN Homelessness, Standard 10/08/2018
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: All attributes +	Disability services carer details cluster Community Services (retired), Standard 10/04/2013 Disability, Standard 13/08/2015 Disability services client details cluster Community Services (retired), Standard 10/04/2013 Disability, Standard 13/08/2015 Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2013-14 Homelessness, Superseded 26/08/2014 Housing assistance, Superseded 26/08/2014 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2013 Implementation end date: 30/06/2014 Conditional obligation: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this item is only asked of clients. This data element is reflects the ABS Sources of income standard variable. Consequently, the value domain definitions explicitly exclude anyone aged under 15. If income information on children under 15 years is sought for the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, these persons may also be asked the sources of income questions. However, if comparability with ABS collections is required, the SHS data can be filtered using the age data element to remove responses for children aged under 15. DSS specific information: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is collected four times, for the following points in time: one week before the start of the support period (the Service episode—episode start date, DDMMYYYY) at the date of presentation at the end of the reporting period (the Service event—last service provision date, DDMMYYYY) at the end of the support period (the Service episode—episode end date, DDMMYYYY). Only one permissible value is selected in each case. For the purposes of the SHS collection the following list is used which aggregates to the ABS Sources of Income Classification. Government pensions and allowances Newstart Allowance Parenting Payment Disability support pension (Centrelink) Youth allowance Age pension Austudy/ABSTUDY Disability Pension (DVA) Service pension (DVA) War Widow(er)'s Pension (Including income support supplement) (DVA) Sickness allowance Carer Allowance Carer Payment Other government pensions and allowances Other sources of income Employee income Unincorporated business income Other income nec Nil income Not stated/not known/inadequately described Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2014-15 Homelessness, Superseded 24/11/2016 Housing assistance, Superseded 24/11/2016 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2014 Implementation end date: 30/06/2015 Conditional obligation: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this item is only asked of clients. This data element reflects the ABS Sources of income standard variable. Consequently, the value domain definitions explicitly exclude anyone aged under 15. If income information on children under 15 years is sought for the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, these persons may also be asked the sources of income questions. However, if comparability with ABS collections is required, the SHS data can be filtered using the age data element to remove responses for children aged under 15. DSS specific information: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is collected four times, for the following points in time: one week before the start of the support period (the Service episode—episode start date, DDMMYYYY) at the date of presentation at the end of the reporting period (the Service event—last service provision date, DDMMYYYY) at the end of the support period (the Service episode—episode end date, DDMMYYYY). Only one permissible value is selected in each case. For the purposes of the SHS collection the following list is used which aggregates to the ABS Sources of Income Classification. Government pensions and allowances Newstart Allowance Parenting Payment Disability support pension (Centrelink) Youth allowance Age pension Austudy/ABSTUDY Disability Pension (DVA) Service pension (DVA) War Widow(er)'s Pension (Including income support supplement) (DVA) Sickness allowance Carer Allowance Carer Payment Other government pensions and allowances Other sources of income Employee income Unincorporated business income Other income nec Nil income Not stated/not known/inadequately described Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2015-17 Homelessness, Superseded 24/11/2016 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2015 Implementation end date: 30/06/2017 Conditional obligation: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this item is only asked of clients. This data element reflects the ABS Sources of income standard variable. Consequently, the value domain definitions explicitly exclude anyone aged under 15. If income information on children under 15 years is sought for the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, these persons may also be asked the sources of income questions. However, if comparability with ABS collections is required, the SHS data can be filtered using the age data element to remove responses for children aged under 15. DSS specific information: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is collected four times, for the following points in time: one week before the start of the support period (the Service episode—episode start date, DDMMYYYY) at the date of presentation at the end of the reporting period (the Service event—last service provision date, DDMMYYYY) at the end of the support period (the Service episode—episode end date, DDMMYYYY). Only one permissible value is selected in each case. For the purposes of the SHS collection the following list is used which aggregates to the ABS Sources of Income Classification. Government pensions and allowances Newstart Allowance Parenting Payment Disability support pension (Centrelink) Youth allowance Age pension Austudy/ABSTUDY Disability Pension (DVA) Service pension (DVA) War Widow(er)'s Pension (Including income support supplement) (DVA) Sickness allowance Carer Allowance Carer Payment Other government pensions and allowances Other sources of income Employee income Unincorporated business income Other income nec Nil income Not stated/not known/inadequately described Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2017-19 Homelessness, Superseded 10/08/2018 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2017 Implementation end date: 30/06/2019 Conditional obligation: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this item is only asked of clients. This data element reflects the Australia Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Sources of income standard variable. Consequently, the value domain definitions explicitly exclude anyone aged under 15. If income information on children under 15 years is sought for the Specialist Homelessness Services (SHS) NMDS, these persons may also be asked the sources of income questions. However, if comparability with ABS collections is required, the SHS data can be filtered using the age data element to remove responses for children aged under 15. DSS specific information: In the Specialist Homelessness Services (SHS) NMDS, this data element is collected four times, for the following points in time: one week before the start of the support period (the Service episode—episode start date, DDMMYYYY) at the date of presentation at the end of the reporting period (the Service event—last service provision date, DDMMYYYY) at the end of the support period (the Service episode—episode end date, DDMMYYYY). Only one permissible value is selected in each case. For the purposes of the SHS collection the following list is used which aggregates to the Australian Bureau of Statistics' Sources of Income Classification. Government pensions and allowances Newstart allowance Parenting payment Disability support pension (Centrelink) Youth allowance Age pension Austudy/Abstudy DVA pension or payment Sickness allowance Carer allowance Carer payment Other government pensions and allowances Other sources of income Employee income Unincorporated business income Other income nec Nil income Not stated/not known/inadequately described