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Person—registered/awaiting government payment indicator, yes/no/not stated/inadequately described code N

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Element
Short name:Help on this termRegistered/awaiting government payment indicator
METEOR identifier:Help on this term690709
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Homelessness, Standard 10/08/2018
Definition:Help on this term

An indicator of whether a person has applied for a government benefit, pension or allowance, but is still awaiting their first payment, as represented by a code.

Data Element Concept:Person—registered/awaiting government payment indicator

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Representation class:Help on this termCode
Data type:Help on this termNumber
Format:Help on this termN
Maximum character length:Help on this term1
Permissible values:Help on this term
ValueMeaning
1Yes
2No
Supplementary values:Help on this term
ValueMeaning
9Not stated/inadequately described

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:Help on this term

CODE 9    Not stated/inadequately described

This code is not for use in primary data collections.

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:Help on this term

This data element may be collected twice:

1. if a person has applied for a government benefit, pension or allowance, and is still awaiting their first payment before the support period starts; and

2. if a person has applied for a government benefit, pension or allowance, and is still awaiting their first payment after the support period commences.

Collection methods:Help on this term

The permissible values for this data element are used to form the response categories to the questions:

"Have you applied for a government benefit?"; and

"Are you waiting for the benefit?"

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this term

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Supersedes Person—registered/awaiting government payment indicator, code N
  • Community Services (retired), Standard 19/09/2013
  • Homelessness, Superseded 10/08/2018
  • Housing assistance, Standard 01/05/2013
Implementation in Data Set Specifications:Help on this term
All attributes +

Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2019-Homelessness, Standard 10/08/2018

DSS specific attributes +

Conditional obligation:

In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this data element is only collected for clients who report nil income (Code 17) in Person—principal source of cash income, code NNNN.

This question establishes whether clients may have applied for a government benefit, pension or allowance, but are still awaiting their first payment.

DSS specific information:

This data element is collected four times, for the following points in time:

  • one week before the start of the support period (the Service episode—episode start date, DDMMYYYY)
  • at the date of presentation
  • at the end of the reporting period (the Service event—last service provision date, DDMMYYYY)
  • at the end of the support period (the Service episode—episode end date, DDMMYYYY).

Only one permissible value is selected in each case.

This collection records a response of Don't Know (Code 99), which is equivalent to the code Not stated/Inadequately described (Code 9) in the Standard


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