Private Rent Assistance Collection, 2021–22; Quality Statement
Data Quality Statement Attributes
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Metadata item type: | Data Quality Statement |
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METEOR identifier: | 762185 |
Registration status: | AIHW Data Quality Statements, Superseded 22/02/2024 |
Data quality | |
Data quality statement summary: | Description All states and territories provide private rental assistance through a number of programs and maintain administrative data sets about these programs. Extracts of these data sets are provided annually to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). The Private Rent Assistance (PRA) programs offered by the states and territories are:
Data are provided for PRA received during the 2021–22 financial year. Summary
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Institutional environment: | The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) is an independent corporate Commonwealth entity under the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Act 1987 (AIHW Act), governed by a management board and accountable to the Australian Parliament through the Health portfolio. The AIHW is a nationally recognised information management agency. Its purpose is to create authoritative and accessible information and statistics that inform decisions and improve the health and welfare of all Australians. Compliance with the confidentiality requirements in the AIHW Act, the Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), and AIHW's data governance arrangements ensures that the AIHW is well positioned to release information for public benefit while protecting the identity of individuals and organisations. For further information, see the AIHW website, which includes details about the AIHW's governance and role and strategic goals. The AIHW receives, compiles, edits and verifies the data in collaboration with states and territories. The finalised data sets are signed off by the states and territories and used by the AIHW for reporting, analysis and approved ad hoc data requests. Requests for jurisdiction-level data releases must be signed off by the relevant state or territory. |
Timeliness: | The reference period for the PRA data collection is based on the financial year (ending 30 June). Data are collected and published annually. The specific reference period for these data is 2021–22. |
Accessibility: | Data are reported in the AIHW’s annual Housing assistance in Australia reports. Users can request additional disaggregation of data which are not available online or in reports (subject to the AIHW’s confidentiality policy and state and territory approval) via the AIHW’s online data request system. Depending on the nature of the request, unpublished data may also incur costs or require approval from the AIHW Ethics Committee. General enquiries about AIHW publications can be directed to [email protected]. |
Interpretability: | Metadata and definitions relating to this data source can be found in the Private rent assistance data set specification 2013-. Supplementary information can be found in the housing collection data manuals which are available upon request. |
Relevance: | The data collected are an administrative by-product of the management of PRA programs administered by the states and territories and conform well in terms of scope, coverage and reference period. PRA, for the purpose of this collection, relates to the provision of financial assistance to enable households to access and maintain accommodation in the private rental market and includes:
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Accuracy: | There are known accuracy issues with the data collected.
State- and territory-specific issues: Western Australia
South Australia
Australian Capital Territory
Northern Territory
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Coherence: | States and territories may publish their own analysis of private rent assistance data which may vary in scope from this collection. Differences in the data collected and which records are included or excluded from a calculation in different states and territories affect the coherence of the output comparisons across states and territories. Coherence over time has been affected by changes in the methodology. For example:
Income details (gross weekly household income and principal source of income) are at the time of application with the following exceptions:
Care should be taken when comparing gross weekly household income across states and territories. New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and the Australian Capital Territory include CRA in gross weekly income, while Western Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory do not. Therefore, gross weekly household income in some states and territories may be artificially lower than others because of the non-reporting of CRA. Weekly rent is at time of application with the following exceptions:
State- and territory-specific issues: New South Wales
Victoria
Queensland
Western Australia
South Australia
Australian Capital Territory
Northern Territory
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Related metadata references: | Supersedes Private Rent Assistance Collection, 2020–21; Quality Statement AIHW Data Quality Statements, Superseded 27/03/2023 Has been superseded by Private Rent Assistance Collection, 2022–23; Quality Statement AIHW Data Quality Statements, Standard 22/02/2024 See also Private rent assistance DSS 2013- Housing assistance, Standard 30/08/2017 |