National Affordable Housing Agreement: Output 1 (main)-Number of people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness who are assisted to secure and sustain their tenancies, 2011
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Output measure |
Short name: | Output 1 (main)-Number of people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness who are assisted to secure and sustain their tenancies, 2011. |
METEOR identifier: | 429283 |
Registration status: | Homelessness, Recorded 27/09/2011 Housing assistance, Recorded 27/09/2011 |
Description: | Number of people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness who are assisted to secure and sustain their tenancies. |
Indicator set: | National Affordable Housing Agreement (2011) Homelessness, Recorded 27/06/2016 Housing assistance, Recorded 27/06/2016 |
Outcome area: | People who are homeless or at risk of homelessness achieve sustainable housing and social inclusion Homelessness, Recorded 27/06/2016 Housing assistance, Recorded 27/06/2016 |
Data quality statement: | National Affordable Housing Agreement: Output 1 (main)-Number of people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness who are assisted to secure and sustain their tenancies, 2011 QS Homelessness, Recorded 05/10/2011 Housing assistance, Recorded 05/10/2011 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Population group age from: | Homeless population accessing specialist homelessness services. |
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Computation description: | Definitions: SAAP Client: A SAAP client is a person who is homeless or at imminent risk of homelessness who
People can be considered as a SAAP client for a particular financial year reporting when:
Presented as a number. |
Computation: | Numerator only |
Numerator: | Number of SAAP clients and accompanying children (within a financial year reporting period) who:
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Comments: | Data availability: 2007-08 (baseline year) This output measure is a proxy. It only captures those who are homeless or at risk of homelessness who access specialist homelessness services and for whom tenure type following support period is recorded. To appropriately measure this output a single data source would be needed that captures: all people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness; information about assistance provided to them to help secure or sustain tenancies; and information about long-term outcomes in terms of housing sustainability. Such a single data source does not currently exist. Interim Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP) data will be used to produce a proxy measure. The main limitations of using SAAP data are: it only captures homeless people who access a SAAP service and it is difficult to measure long-term (sustainable) outcomes. In relation to the latter, another proxy PI has been specified using public housing data to measure the number of persons who obtained a public housing tenancy who were previously homeless. The complementary proxy PI would provide information on long-term outcomes to support the information on assistance provided presented in this PI. Further development will then be required to link the information in the housing and homelessness data sources to provide information on the outcomes achieved by the people who receive housing assistance. Another limitation of SAAP data is that it is support period based, making it necessary to link support periods together in order to obtain information about clients. This has implications in relation to data quality (in terms of mixed consent and accuracy with regards to the Statistical Linkage Key). |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Count |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Person |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
Framework and dimensions: | Shelter and housing |
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Accountability attributes | |
Reporting requirements: | National Affordable Housing Agreement (NAHA) |
Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. |
Steward: | Housing and Homelessness Information Management Group |
Reference documents: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 2010. Government-funded specialist homelessness services: SAAP National Data Collection annual report 2008–09. Cat. no. HOU 219. Canberra: AIHW. |