State owned and managed Indigenous housing (SOMIH) DSS 2012-13

Identifying and definitional attributes

• Housing assistance, Superseded 30/08/2017

The purpose of the State owned and managed Indigenous housing (SOMIH) data set specification is to describe information about tenants in SOMIH dwellings covered by the National Affordable Housing Agreement (NAHA). Included are households residing in SOMIH dwellings where the dwelling is either:

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

SOMIH 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

All jurisdictions are asked to supply the single/couple codes in 2012-13 data extractions. Previously, a household’s bedroom requirement has been calculated using the Proxy Occupancy Standard (POS), however under NAHA reporting requirements, the match of a dwelling to household size is based on Canadian National Occupancy Standard (CNOS).

New low income cut–off measures for low income households based on new 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. The SOMIH program is not applicable to Victoria, Western Australia, Australian Capital Territory, and Northern Territory.

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 2012-2013, process manual.

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Public rental housing and SOMIH national data collection 2012-2013, data manual.

Relational attributes