Person—principal source of cash income, code N[.N.N.N]
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Principal income source (housing) |
| METEOR identifier: | 608085 |
| Registration status: | Housing assistance, Standard 30/08/2017 |
| Definition: | The source from which a housing assistance client derives the greatest proportion of his/her cash income, as represented by a code. |
| Data Element Concept: | Person—principal source of cash income |
| Value Domain: | Source of cash income housing assistance code N[.N.N.N] |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
| Representation class: | Code | |
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| Data type: | Number | |
| Format: | N[.N.N.N] | |
| Maximum character length: | 4 | |
| Value | Meaning | |
| Permissible values: | 1 | Employee cash income |
| 2 | Unincorporated business income | |
| 3.1.1 | Youth allowance | |
| 3.1.2 | Newstart allowance | |
| 3.1.3 | Other allowances for students and the unemployed | |
| 3.2.1 | Age pension | |
| 3.2.2 | Disability Support pension | |
| 3.2.3 | Other Centrelink pensions/allowances for the aged and people with disability | |
| 3.3.1 | Family Tax Benefit (Parts A and B) | |
| 3.3.2.1 | Parenting Payment - partnered | |
| 3.3.2.2 | Parenting Payment - single | |
| 3.3.3 | Double Orphan Pension | |
| 3.3.4 | Wife Pension | |
| 3.3.5 | Widow B Pension | |
| 3.3.6 | Bereavement Allowance | |
| 3.3.8 | Carer Payment | |
| 3.3.9 | Carer Allowance | |
| 3.3.10 | Carer Supplement | |
| 3.3.11 | Partner Allowance | |
| 3.3.12 | Widow Allowance | |
| 3.3.13 | CDEP Participant Supplement | |
| 3.3.14 | Special Benefit | |
| 3.3.15 | Service pension (DVA) | |
| 3.3.16 | Disability pension (DVA) | |
| 3.3.17 | War widow's pension (DVA) | |
| 3.3.18 | Pensions and allowances from overseas governments | |
| 3.3.19 | Other government cash pensions and allowances | |
| 4 | Other cash income (e.g. superannuation, compensation) | |
| 5 | Nil Income | |
| Supplementary values: | 9 | Not stated/inadequately described |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Comments: | This value domain does not follow the standard ABS classification codeset, and is not recommended for wider use. |
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Source and reference attributes | |
| Origin: | Australian Bureau of Statistics. 1997. Standards for Social, Labour and Demographic Variables. Viewed June 1, 2012. |
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Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | Income source identifies a household’s sources of income and can be used to determine whether they may be eligible to receive Commonwealth rent assistance if the same household was living in the private rental market. |
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Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | National Housing Data Development Committee |
| Origin: | Australian Bureau of Statistics. Standards for Social, Labour and Demographic Variables. Viewed 3 November 2005. |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Person—principal source of cash income, code N[.N.N.N] Housing assistance, Superseded 30/08/2017 See also Person—source of cash income (all), housing assistance code N[.N.N.N] Housing assistance, Standard 01/05/2013 |
| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Person income (housing assistance) cluster Housing assistance, Standard 30/08/2017 Public Housing and State Owned and Managed Indigenous housing (PH & SOMIH) DSS 2018- Housing assistance, Standard 10/05/2019 |