Person—principal source of cash income, code NNNN

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element
Short name:	Principal income source
METEOR identifier:	692276
Registration status:	Homelessness, Standard 10/08/2018
Definition:	The source from which a person 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:	Sources of income code NNNN

Value domain attributes
Representational attributes
Classification scheme:	Australian Classification for Sources of Income 2015
Representation class:	Code
Data type:	Number
Format:	NNNN
Maximum character length:	4

Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

Data element attributes
Source and reference attributes
Origin:	Australian Bureau of Statistics. Standards for Social, Labour and Demographic Variables. Viewed 3 November 2012.
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	Supersedes Person—principal source of cash income, code NNNN Community Services (retired), Standard 10/04/2013 Disability, Standard 13/08/2015 Homelessness, Superseded 10/08/2018 Housing assistance, Standard 01/05/2013
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: All attributes +	Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS 2019- Homelessness, Standard 10/08/2018 DSS specific attributes + Conditional obligation: In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this item is only asked of clients. This data element reflects the Australia Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Sources of income standard variable. Consequently, the value domain definitions explicitly exclude anyone aged under 15. If income information on children under 15 years is sought for the Specialist Homelessness Services (SHS) NMDS, these persons may also be asked the sources of income questions. However, if comparability with ABS collections is required, the SHS data can be filtered using the age data element to remove responses for children aged under 15. DSS specific information: In the Specialist Homelessness Services (SHS) NMDS, 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. For the purposes of the SHS collection the following list is used which aggregates to the Australian Bureau of Statistics' Sources of Income Classification. Government pensions and allowances Newstart allowance Parenting payment Disability support pension (Centrelink) Youth allowance Age pension Austudy/Abstudy DVA pension or payment Sickness allowance Carer allowance Carer payment Other government pensions and allowances Other sources of income Employee income Unincorporated business income Other income nec Nil income Not stated/not known/inadequately described