Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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METEOR identifier: | 269613 |
Registration status: | Housing assistance, Superseded 10/02/2006 |
Definition: | Low income households that at the time of allocation were subject to one or more of the following circumstances:
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Context: | This metadata item is used to measure the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement 'Priority access to those in greatest need' (P6) national standard. The purpose of this indicator is to measure the effectiveness of housing authorities allocation of housing to households in greatest need ahead of households with less housing needs. |
Household—greatest need status
Data Element Concept Attributes
Object Class attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
Object class: | Household |
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Definition: | A group of two or more related or unrelated people who usually reside in the same dwelling, and who make common provision for food or other essentials for living; or a single person living in a dwelling who makes provision for his or her own food and other essentials for living, without combining with any other person. |
Context: | Together with family, household is considered one of the basic groups of social aggregation. Information on household numbers and composition aids in identifying groups within the population such as Indigenous households or the number of people living alone. |
Specialisation of: | Person/group of persons |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | For housing data collections, the number of tenancy agreements is a practical proxy for calculating the number of households receiving housing assistance. The persons in the group may pool their incomes and have a common budget to a greater or lesser extent: they may be related or unrelated persons, or a combination of both. Only usual residents of the household are included as members of the household. Visitors to a household are, by definition, excluded from the household. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Origin: | CSHA Public rental housing data manual 2001-02
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Property attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
Property: | Greatest need status |
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Definition: | An indicator of whether the criteria for greatest need are met. |
Property group: | Service/care urgency |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Data element concept attributes
Collection and usage attributes
Guide for use: | A low income household for the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement (CSHA) greatest need definition is a household who satisfies an eligibility test to receive CSHA funded program assistance. 1. Homeless: Note - the definition of 'homeless' used in this item is the same as that which appears at Homeless status - CSHA. 2. People whose life or safety was at risk in their accommodation: This includes situations where people were:
Violence is defined as any incident involving the occurrence, attempt or threat of either physical or sexual assault. Physical assault involves the use of physical force with the intent to harm or frighten a person. The threat to harm should only be included if it is believed the harm is likely to be carried out. Sexual assault includes acts of a sexual nature against a person's will through the use of physical force, intimidation or coercion, or any attempts to do this. 3. People whose health condition was aggravated by their accommodation: It includes people who lived in the following situations:
4. People whose housing was inappropriate to their needs: This category captures housing situations that indicate a person did not have access to safe and secure housing at the time of allocation and these situations are not included in categories 1 to 3 above (people with housing affordability issues are captured in category 5). Inappropriate housing includes persons who:
5. People with very high rental costs: This category identifies households that paid 41% or more of their income in rent at the time of housing allocation. This definition is not intended to suggest that households paying between 30-41% of income on rent live in affordable housing situations. The definition aims to capture the group of the population who experience the more severe end of housing affordability problems and the group for which literature suggests are least able to decrease their housing costs (Department of Family and Community Services 2001:63). |
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Relational attributes
Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Household—greatest need reason Housing assistance, Standard 10/02/2006 Has been superseded by Household—greatest need reason Housing assistance, Superseded 30/08/2017 |
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Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept: | Household—greatest need status, code N Housing assistance, Superseded 10/02/2006 |