Person—principal source of cash income, code NNNN

Implementation start date: 01/07/2013

Implementation end date: 30/06/2014

Conditional obligation:

In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this item is only asked of clients.

This data element is reflects the 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 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 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 ABS Sources of Income Classification.

Government pensions and allowances

Newstart Allowance

Parenting Payment

Disability support pension (Centrelink)

Youth allowance

Age pension

Austudy/ABSTUDY

Disability Pension (DVA)

Service pension (DVA)

War Widow(er)'s Pension (Including income support supplement) (DVA)

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 

Implementation start date: 01/07/2014

Implementation end date: 30/06/2015

Conditional obligation:

In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this item is only asked of clients.

This data element reflects the 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 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 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 ABS Sources of Income Classification.

Government pensions and allowances

Newstart Allowance

Parenting Payment

Disability support pension (Centrelink)

Youth allowance

Age pension

Austudy/ABSTUDY

Disability Pension (DVA)

Service pension (DVA)

War Widow(er)'s Pension (Including income support supplement) (DVA)

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 

Implementation start date: 01/07/2015

Implementation end date: 30/06/2017

Conditional obligation:

In the Specialist Homelessness Services NMDS, this item is only asked of clients.

This data element reflects the 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 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 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 ABS Sources of Income Classification.

Government pensions and allowances

Newstart Allowance

Parenting Payment

Disability support pension (Centrelink)

Youth allowance

Age pension

Austudy/ABSTUDY

Disability Pension (DVA)

Service pension (DVA)

War Widow(er)'s Pension (Including income support supplement) (DVA)

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

Implementation start date: 01/07/2017

Implementation end date: 30/06/2019

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