Household—gross income (weekly), total Australian currency N[NNNNN].NN
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type:![]() | Data Element |
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Short name:![]() | Income - gross (household) |
Synonymous names:![]() | Income - gross (household) |
METEOR identifier:![]() | 270318 |
Registration status:![]() | Housing assistance, Retired 10/02/2006 |
Definition:![]() | The value of gross weekly income from all sources (before deductions for income tax, superannuation, etc.) for all household members expressed as dollars per week. |
Context:![]() | Gross household income is used to calculate the low income status of a household. |
Data element concept attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Data element concept: | Household—gross income |
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METEOR identifier:![]() | 269756 |
Registration status:![]() | Health!, Standard 15/12/2005 Housing assistance, Superseded 30/08/2017 |
Definition:![]() | The value of gross income from all sources (before deductions for income tax, superannuation, etc.) for all household members. |
Context:![]() | A gross personal income of each household member is combined to determine gross household income. |
Object class:![]() | Household |
Property:![]() | Gross income |
Value domain attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Value domain: | Total Australian currency N[NNNNN].NN |
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METEOR identifier:![]() | 270684 |
Registration status:![]() | Housing assistance, Standard 01/03/2005 Community Services (retired), Standard 30/11/2007 Early Childhood, Standard 21/05/2010 Disability, Standard 13/08/2015 Commonwealth Department of Health , Standard 17/12/2015 Commonwealth Department of Social Services (retired), Standard 20/06/2018 |
Definition:![]() | Total number of Australian dollars and cents. |
Representational attributes | ||
Representation class:![]() | Total | |
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Data type:![]() | Currency | |
Format:![]() | N[NNNNN].NN | |
Maximum character length:![]() | 8 | |
Unit of measure:![]() | Australian currency (AU$) |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use:![]() | The main components of gross income are:
Gross income is regarded as all receipts which are received regularly and are of a recurring nature. Certain receipts such as lump sum receipts, windfall gains and withdrawals from savings are not considered to conform to these criteria and are not included as income. |
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Comments:![]() | In the Commonwealth Housing data set including Commonwealth Rent Assistance (CRA), the counting unit is an income unit rather than a household, and income from all sources is referred to as total private income. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation:![]() | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Origin:![]() | Public rental housing data manual 2001-02 |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references:![]() | Is formed using Household—low income status, code N Housing assistance, Superseded 10/02/2006 |