Recipient—regular care child, total number N[N]
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Number of Regular Care Children |
METEOR identifier: | 646987 |
Registration status: | Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired), Standard 20/06/2018 |
Definition: | The total number of children for which a recipient has regular care. |
Data Element Concept: | Recipient—regular care child |
Value Domain: | Total number N[N] |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
Representation class: | Total | |
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Data type: | Number | |
Format: | N[N] | |
Maximum character length: | 2 | |
Value | Meaning | |
Supplementary values: | 99 | Not stated/inadequately described |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Comments: | Regular care is defined as care provided by the recipient to a child between 14% and 34% of the time. This is between 52 and 127 nights a year, or 2 to 4 nights of care a fortnight. Recipients with regular care children are eligible for Family Tax Benefit Rent Assistance. Where a recipient who is paying child support payments also has regular care of a child, the child support payments are adjusted to acknowledge that the recipient directly contributes to the costs of raising the child through regular care. |
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Government Department of Social Services |
Relational attributes | |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Children Cluster Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired), Standard 20/06/2018 Conditional obligation: Conditional on the recipient having care of a child between 14% and 34% of the time. DSS specific information: Number of regular care children refers to the variable NUM_RCC_CHILD in the PIA research data set. Up to 16 children may be recorded. |