Public rental housing DSS 2012-13

Identifying and definitional attributes

• Housing assistance, Superseded 30/08/2017

The purpose of the Public rental housing data set specification is to describe information about tenants in public rental housing covered by the National Affordable Housing Agreement (NAHA). Included are households residing in public rental housing dwellings where the dwelling is either:

• owned by the housing authority; or
• leased from the private sector or other housing program areas and used for provision of public rental housing.

Public rental housing dwellings leased to other program areas such as community housing or crisis and emergency accommodation programs are not included in this collection.

Dwellings no longer under the administration of the property manager/agency at 30 June 2013, (including dwellings demolished, sold or disposed of) and dwellings not yet available to the property manager/agency at 30 June 2013, (such as those still under construction or being purchased) are excluded.

Collection and usage attributes

Low income cut–off measures for low income households based on definition under NAHA.

State and territory housing authorities provide the data to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare for national collation on an annual basis.

Include:

• Dwellings headleased from private market or other programs and managed by the jurisdiction.

Exclude:

• Dwellings no longer under the administration of the property manager/agent at 30 June 2013.
• Dwellings not yet available to the property manager/agency at 30 June 2013, such as those still under construction or being purchased
• Dwellings owned but not administered by the jurisdiction (e.g. leased to other program areas and not administered by state housing authority).

Data qualifications:

• Bedsits are to be reported as 1 bedroom AND counted as 1 bedroom for performance indicator calculations
• Occupied dwellings can be tenantable or untenantable.

Source and reference attributes

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Public rental housing and SOMIH national data collection 2012-13, processing manual.

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Public rental housing and SOMIH national data collection 2012-13, data manual.

Relational attributes