Definition
Home purchase assistance relates to the provision of financial assistance to households, to improve their access to home ownership.
Includes:
- direct lending (including government loans, shared equity loans and bridging loans)
- deposit assistance
- interest rate assistance
- mortgage relief
- other assistance grants (including Group Self and Affordable Homes Program).
Excludes:
- non-financial assistance, e.g. home purchase advisory and counselling services
- home renovation/maintenance services
- sale to tenant program
- any assistance that does not directly facilitate the purchase of a home.
Any household that had monies outstanding on repayable home purchase assistance provided in a previous period at the commencement of the 2009-10 financial year are within the scope of this collection.
Any households that received transfers of home purchase assistance in the 2009-10 financial year are within the scope of this collection.
Households that received transfers of home purchase assistance in the 2009-10 financial year are those that commenced receiving home purchase assistance in the 2009-10 financial year and those that commenced receiving ongoing home purchase assistance in a previous financial year and continued to receive that assistance in the 2009-10 financial year.
Metadata items in this Data Set Specification
Below is a list of all the components within this Dataset Specification.
Each entry includes the item name, whether the item is optional, mandatory or conditional and the maximum times the item can occur in a dataset.
If the items must occur in a particular order in the dataset, the sequence number is included before the item name.
| Reference | Data Element | Data Type | Length | Inclusion | # |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dwelling—Australian postcode code (Postcode datafile) {NNNN} | Number | 4 | mandatory | 1 | |
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Dwelling—Australian state/territory identifier, code N
Specific Information:
In the Home purchase assistance 2009-10 collection, the value Other territories (Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Christmas Island and Jervis Bay Territory) is not used.
|
Number | 1 | mandatory | 1 | |
|
Dwelling—suburb/town/locality name, text [A(50)]
Specific Information:
The field for suburb name may be truncated to 15 characters in this collection.
|
String | 50 | mandatory | 1 | |
| Household—gross income (weekly), total Australian currency N[NNNNN].NN | Currency | 8 | mandatory | 1 | |
|
Household—household identifier, X[X(14)]
Specific Information:
For the purposes of this collection, a unique household identifier may be assigned by jurisdictions by prefixing the assistance agency’s unique household identifier with a unique agency identifier. This modification provides for the contingency that assistance agencies coincidentally assign identical identifiers that would otherwise lead to distinct households having the same household identifier. |
- | - | mandatory | 1 | |
| Household—Indigenous status, yes/no code N | Number | 1 | mandatory | 1 | |
|
Person: Date of Birth, DDMMYYYY
Specific Information:
The HPA collection requires a different format from the standard. The HPA collection required format is DD/MM/YYYY. This item refers to the date of birth of the main applicant. |
Date/Time | 8 | mandatory | 1 | |
| Person—person identifier (household), X[X(14)] | String | 15 | mandatory | 1 |
Comments
Guide for use:
As part of the 2009–10 HHIMG work program, redevelopment of the home purchase assistance data collection was agreed to, in line with the new reporting requirements under the National Affordable Housing Agreement (NAHA). Subsequently, HHIMG members agreed to a unit record level collection for home purchase assistance and to the associated data items for collection and reporting for the 2009-10 financial year.
Origin:Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Home purchase assistance data collection 2009-2010, Jurisdictional data manual, June 2010.
References
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| As a numerator in an Indicator | 0 |
| As a denominator in an Indicator | 0 |
| As a disaggregation in an Indicator | 0 |