Person—reference person indicator (household), code N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Reference person (household) |
METEOR identifier: | 351201 |
Registration status: | Community Services (retired), Standard 31/08/2007 |
Definition: | Whether a person is a reference person for a household. |
Data element concept attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Data element concept: | Person—reference person status (household) |
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METEOR identifier: | 406830 |
Registration status: | Community Services (retired), Standard 30/08/2007 Housing assistance, Standard 30/08/2007 |
Definition: | An indicator of whether a person is a reference person for a household. |
Context: | The ability to determine relationships between a reference person and others in the household is required to calculate the suitability of a dwellling to house all the tenants. |
Object class: | Person |
Property: | Reference person status |
Value domain attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Value domain: | Yes/no/not stated/inadequately described code N |
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METEOR identifier: | 301747 |
Registration status: | Health!, Standard 21/09/2005 Housing assistance, Standard 10/02/2006 Community Services (retired), Standard 14/02/2006 Early Childhood, Standard 21/05/2010 Homelessness, Standard 23/08/2010 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 01/11/2012 Disability, Standard 07/10/2014 Indigenous, Standard 13/03/2015 Children and Families, Standard 22/11/2016 |
Definition: | A code set representing 'yes', 'no' and 'not stated/inadequately described'. |
Representational attributes | ||
Representation class: | Code | |
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Data type: | Number | |
Format: | N | |
Maximum character length: | 1 | |
Value | Meaning | |
Permissible values: | 1 | Yes |
2 | No | |
Supplementary values: | 9 | Not stated/inadequately described |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | CODE 9 Not stated/inadequately described This code is not for use in primary data collections. |
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Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | The household reference person is used as the basis for the identification of income units and families and the classification of the household. Code 1 Yes: Record if a person is a reference person for a household. Code 2 No: Record if a person is not a reference person for a household. |
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Collection methods: | Housing sector specific Usually referred to as Person 1, Main tenant or Tenant 1 on application or tenancy forms. Can also be referred to as the Principal tenant, Household head or where the dwelling is being purchased, referred to as the Mortgagee. Also includes single adults and lone parents. Person must be aged 16 or over. All other persons should be coded to 2. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Origin: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. National Housing Assistance Data Dictionary, Version 3. 2006. AIHW Cat. no. HOU 147. |
Reference documents: | Australian Bureau of Statistics. Census Dictionary 2006. Cat no. 2901.0. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | See also Person—relationship to household reference person, code NN Community Services (retired), Standard 27/04/2007 |