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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 2010-11 financial year are within the scope of this collection.

Any households that received transfers of home purchase assistance in the 2010-11 financial year are within the scope of this collection.

Households that received transfers of home purchase assistance in the 2010-11 financial year are those that commenced receiving home purchase assistance in the 2010-11 financial year and those that commenced receiving ongoing home purchase assistance in a previous financial year and continued to receive that assistance in the 2010-11 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.


Data Elements
Reference Data Element Data Type Length Inclusion #
Dwelling—Australian postcode code (Postcode datafile) {NNNN} Number 4 mandatory 1
Dwelling—Australian state/territory identifier, code N
Specific Information:
Code "9" Other territories (Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Christmas Island and Jervis Bay Territory) is not used by the Home Purchase collection.
Number 1 mandatory 1
Dwelling—suburb/town/locality name, text [A(50)]
Specific Information:
The Home Purchase collection truncates the field for suburb name to 15 characters.
String 50 mandatory 1
Household—financial assistance amount received, total Australian currency N[NNNNN].NN
Specific Information:

Only the value of assistance provided between 01/07/2010 and 30/06/2011 should be included. The value of assistance provided before or after this date should be excluded, therefore:

  • for households with outstanding balances on repayable assistance provided in a previous financial year where no transfers of assistance were provided in the 2010-11 financial year, the amount of assistance received, HPA_AMOUNT, should be left blank.
  • for households that commenced receiving ongoing assistance in a previous financial year that continued to receive transfers of assistance in the 2010-11 financial year, only the value of assistance provided in the 2010-11 financial year should be included.
Currency 8 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 household is the same as the members under a single tenancy agreement, or members that live in a dwelling under a common title.

Where possible jurisdictions should use the same household identifier for a given household across collection years.

- - 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
Service event—assistance received date, DDMMYYYY
Specific Information:

The HPA collection requires a different format from the standard. The HPA collection required format is DD/MM/YYYY.

For the purposes of this collection this data item should record the date that the assistance is first received by the household, regardless of whether this date precedes the 2010-11 financial year.

The originating date of assistance will precede 1/7/2010 whenever households commenced receiving an ongoing form of assistance in a previous financial year and continued to receive that assistance in the 2010-11 financial year, or whenever households have, for the given assistance type, outstanding balances on repayable assistance provided in a previous financial year.

For example, if a household first received direct lending assistance in the 2001-2002 financial year and has a balance outstanding on their loan at the commencement of the 2010-11 financial year, the assistance received date for direct lending assistance will be the date their loan was issued in the 2001-2002 financial year. If they then commence receive ongoing mortgage relief on this loan in the 2008-09 financial year and continue to receive mortgage relief in the 2010-11 financial year, then the assistance received date for mortgage relief will be when it was first provided in the 2008-09 financial year.
Date/Time 8 mandatory 1
Service event—assistance type, home purchase assistance code N[N]
Specific Information:

The permissible values in the HPA collection differ from the standard. HPA permissible values are:

Value

Meaning

1

Direct lending

2

Deposit assistance

3

Interest rate assistance

4

Mortgage relief

99

Other

Code “88” is not a permissible value in the HPA collection.

- - mandatory 1
Service event—payment type, home purchase assistance code N Number 1 mandatory 1

Comments

Origin:
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Home purchase assistance data collection 2010-2011, Jurisdictional data manual, June 2011.

References

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Relation Count
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As a denominator in an Indicator 0
As a disaggregation in an Indicator 0