Household—application type, housing assistance code N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Housing assistance application type |
METEOR identifier: | 607906 |
Registration status: | Housing assistance, Standard 30/08/2017 |
Definition: | The type of application a household has submitted to a housing assistance agency, as represented by a code. |
Data Element Concept: | Household—application type |
Value Domain: | Housing assistance application type code N |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | This data element is used in the context of the waitlist population. It should be used in conjunction with Household—application date, DDMMYYYY to determine those who have been deemed eligible for services and who are waiting to be allocated to public rental housing or state owned and managed Indigenous housing. The waiting list population refers to applicants who meet the following criteria:
Potential applicants still awaiting eligibility assessment are excluded. |
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Collection methods: | Households that applied for a transfer and received housing assistance for that financial year should be counted. This includes households that wish to transfer to another dwelling for reasons other than applying for assistance different from what they currently receive. Include applications from those who have been assisted by another program such as temporary or crisis accommodation while waiting for housing assistance. Mutual exchanges and same address transfers are excluded from the count of total number of applicant households on the waiting list. In the public rental housing and state owned and managed Indigenous housing data collections this metadata item is measured over a financial year. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Steward: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes Household—application type, housing assistance code N Housing assistance, Superseded 30/08/2017 See also Household—application date, DDMMYYYY Housing assistance, Superseded 30/08/2017 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Community housing waiting list cluster Housing assistance, Standard 30/08/2017 DSS specific information: Unknowns are collected as "U", and should be mapped to 9 - Not stated/Inadequately described. Code 8 Other is not used in this collection. Public Housing and State Owned and Managed Indigenous housing (PH & SOMIH) DSS 2018- Housing assistance, Standard 10/05/2019 Implementation start date: 01/07/2018 DSS specific information: Record the total number of applications as at 30 June of the reference year. This collection uses an alternative code set. These codes should be mapped as follows: 3 (other) = 8 (other) Waitlist (housing assistance) cluster Housing assistance, Standard 30/08/2017 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. |