• Housing assistance, Superseded 30/08/2017

The Person cluster describes details of all persons who received assistance during the year (ongoing and non-ongoing).

Include:

• 1 record for each person in each Service provider organisation—household identifier, X[X(14)] (i.e. where persons are attached to two households then there should be two records for that individual).
• Persons in dwellings headleased from private market or other programs and managed by the jurisdiction.

Exclude:

• Persons in households residing in dwellings owned but not administered by the jurisdiction (e.g. leased to other program areas and not administered by state housing authority).

Person

All jurisdictions are asked to supply the single/couple codes in the reference period data extractions. Previously, a household’s bedroom requirement has been calculated using the Proxy Occupancy Standard (POS), however under National Affordable Housing Agreement (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.

Data qualifications:

• If records for persons in ended household cannot be supplied, special needs status for the ended household should be set in the household file to ensure all households are captured in the P5 special needs indicator.

Refer to the collection period of the data set to determine the reference year for this cluster.

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 2013. National housing and homelessness data dictionary: version 1, 2013. Cat. no. HOU 269. Canberra: AIHW.