Person income (housing assistance) cluster

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Set Specification
METEOR identifier:	605275
Registration status:	Housing assistance, Standard 30/08/2017
DSS type:	Data Element Cluster
Scope:	The Person income cluster describes income records for week ending 30 June, for all persons in households ongoing at 30 June, and whose details are provided in the Person cluster.

Collection and usage attributes

Statistical unit:

Person

Collection methods:

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

Include:

Multiple income records for persons with different income types.
Income records for persons in households in dwellings headleased and managed by state housing authority.

Exclude:

Income records for 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).

Data qualifications:

No rounding should be applied to income amounts

Comments:

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

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Reference documents:

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

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:

Implementation in Data Set Specifications:

All attributes +

Public rental housing DSS 2013-14 Housing assistance, Superseded 30/08/2017

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2013 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2014 *Conditional obligation:* Conditional on the basis of a household tenanting for a public rental housing dwelling during the collection period.

Public rental housing DSS 2014-17 Housing assistance, Superseded 19/12/2017

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2013 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2017 *Conditional obligation:* Conditional on the basis of a household tenanting for a public rental housing dwelling during the collection period.

Public rental housing DSS 2017-18 Housing assistance, Superseded 10/05/2019

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2017 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2018 *Conditional obligation:* Conditional on the basis of a household tenanting for a public rental housing dwelling during the collection period.

State owned and managed Indigenous housing (SOMIH) DSS 2013-14 Housing assistance, Superseded 30/08/2017

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2013 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2014 *Conditional obligation:* Conditional on the basis of a household tenanting a SOMIH dwelling during the collection period.

State owned and managed Indigenous housing (SOMIH) DSS 2014-17 Housing assistance, Standard 30/08/2017

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2014 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2017 *Conditional obligation:* Conditional on the basis of a household tenanting a SOMIH dwelling during the collection period.

State owned and managed Indigenous housing (SOMIH) DSS 2017-18 Housing assistance, Superseded 05/05/2019

DSS specific attributes +
*Implementation start date:* 01/07/2017 *Implementation end date:* 30/06/2018 *Conditional obligation:* Conditional on the basis of a household tenanting a SOMIH dwelling during the collection period.

Metadata items in this Data Set Specification

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Seq No.	Metadata item	Obligation	Max occurs
-	Dwelling—housing program type, (public rental housing/SOMIH) code N	Mandatory	1
-	Income unit—income unit identifier, X[X(14)]	Mandatory	1
-	Person—assessable income (weekly), total Australian currency N[NNNNN].NN *DSS specific information:* The assessable weekly income refers to the amount at 30 June.	Mandatory	1
-	Person—Australian state/territory identifier, code N *DSS specific information:* Code 9 'Other territories (Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Christmas Island and Jervis Bay Territory)' is not used by this data set.	Mandatory	1
-	Person—gross weekly income, total Australian currency N[NNNNN].NN *DSS specific information:* The gross weekly income refers to the amount at 30 June.	Mandatory	1
-	Person—principal source of cash income, code N[.N.N.N]	Mandatory	1
-	Service provider organisation—household identifier, X[X(14)]	Mandatory	1
-	Service provider organisation—person in household identifier, X[X(14)]	Mandatory	1

Person income (housing assistance) cluster

Identifying and definitional attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Source and reference attributes

Relational attributes

Metadata items in this Data Set Specification

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