Waitlist (housing assistance) cluster

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Set Specification
METEOR identifier:	605281
Registration status:	Housing assistance, Standard 30/08/2017
DSS type:	Data Element Cluster
Scope:	The Waitlist cluster describes all households that were on the public rental housing and State owned and managed Indigenous housing (SOMIH) waitlist as a transfer applicant or new applicant in the financial year. This includes households who are still waiting at 30 June or were first housed during the financial year.

Collection and usage attributes
Statistical unit:	Household
Guide for use:	Include: 1 Waitlist applicant—waitlist applicant identifier, X[X(14)] per applicant household per program 1 record per Waitlist applicant—waitlist applicant identifier, X[X(14)] Indigenous applicants to be placed under one program (either PH or SOMIH) New applicants Transfer applicants. Exclude: Mutual exchanges Same address transfers.
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Related metadata references:	Supersedes Waitlist (housing assistance) cluster Housing assistance, Superseded 30/08/2017
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: All attributes +	Public rental housing DSS 2013-14 Housing assistance, Superseded 30/08/2017 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2013 Implementation end date: 30/06/2014 Conditional obligation: Conditional on the basis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 being on a waitlist 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 Public rental housing DSS 2014-17 Housing assistance, Superseded 19/12/2017 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2013 Implementation end date: 30/06/2017 Conditional obligation: Conditional on the basis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 being on a waitlist 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 Public rental housing DSS 2017-18 Housing assistance, Superseded 10/05/2019 DSS specific attributes + Implementation start date: 01/07/2017 Implementation end date: 30/06/2018 Conditional obligation: Conditional on the basis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 being on a waitlist 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 being on the waitlist for 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 being on the waitlist for 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 being on the waitlist for 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
-	Household—application allocation indicator, yes/no code N *DSS specific information:* In the public rental housing cluster, code 1 (yes) = (A) Allocated (ie. rental housing assistance has been allocated) and code 2 (no) = (W) Waiting (ie. applicant is still waiting for rental housing assistance to be allocated), and code 9 = (U) Unknown (ie. application status is unknown).	Mandatory	1
-	Household—application date, DDMMYYYY	Mandatory	1
-	Household—application type, housing assistance code N *DSS specific information:* Code 8 'Other' maps to code 3 'other' in the public rental housing and state owned and managed Indigenous housing collection manual.	Mandatory	1
-	Household—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
-	Household—greatest need date, DDMMYYYY *Conditional obligation:* Greatest need date is only recorded if the household has been identified as a greatest need household.	Conditional	1
-	Household—greatest need indicator, yes/no code N	Mandatory	1
-	Household—greatest need reason, code N *Conditional obligation:* Greatest need reason is only recorded if the household has been identified as a greatest need household.	Conditional	6
-	Waitlist applicant—waitlist applicant identifier, X[X(14)]	Mandatory	1