Household—household composition, housing assistance code N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Household composition (housing assistance) |
| METEOR identifier: | 608018 |
| Registration status: | Housing assistance, Standard 30/08/2017 |
| Definition: | The composition of the household in a housing assistance collection, based on the relationship between household members, as represented by a code. |
| Data Element Concept: | Household—household composition |
| Value Domain: | Housing assistance household composition code N |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
| Representation class: | Code | |
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| Data type: | String | |
| Format: | N | |
| Maximum character length: | 1 | |
| Value | Meaning | |
| Permissible values: | 1 | Single |
| 2 | Sole parent with child/ren aged less than 16 years | |
| 3 | Couple only | |
| 4 | Couple with child/ren aged less than 16 years | |
| 5 | Family (with other family members present including children aged 16 years and over) | |
| 6 | Family (with other non-related members present) | |
| 7 | Group (unrelated adults) | |
| Supplementary values: | 9 | Not stated/inadequately described |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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| Steward: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Comments: | It should be noted that only usual residents of a household are considered when describing and categorising households by Household type. Visitors to a household are, by definition, excluded from the household. Usual residence of members of a household is defined as '...that address at which the person has lived or intends to live for a total of 6 months of more' (Census Dictionary 1996). |
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Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Steward: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Reference documents: | AIHW (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare) 2014. Community housing national data collection, Jurisdiction process manual 2013-14. Canberra: AIHW. |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Household—household composition, housing assistance code N Housing assistance, Superseded 30/08/2017 |
| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Tenancy/vacancy cluster (Mainstream community housing) Housing assistance, Standard 30/08/2017 |