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State owned and managed Indigenous housing (SOMIH) DSS

This item has been superseded by a newer version by one or more Registration Authorities.

Definition

The purpose of the State owned and managed Indigenous housing (SOMIH) data set specification is to describe information about tenants in SOMIH dwellings covered by the National Affordable Housing Agreement (NAHA). Included are households residing in SOMIH dwellings where the dwelling is either:

owned by the housing authority; or leased from the private sector or other housing program areas and used for provision of public rental housing.

SOMIH dwellings leased to other program areas such as community housing or crisis and emergency accommodation programs are not included in this collection.

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 Clusters Statuses Inclusion #
1 Dwelling (housing assistance) cluster
  • [Housing assistance: Superseded]
 mandatory 1
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 collected in the Dwelling (occupied and vacant) cluster.
 Number 1 mandatory 1
Dwelling—dwelling identifier, X[X(14)] String 15 mandatory 1
Dwelling—housing program type, (public housing/SOMIH) code N - - mandatory 1
Dwelling—structure type, code N[N] Number 2 mandatory 1
Dwelling—tenantability status, code N Number 1 mandatory 1
2 Dwelling history (housing assistance) cluster
  • [Housing assistance: Superseded]
 mandatory 1
Reference Data Element Data Type Length Inclusion #
Dwelling—Australian state/territory identifier, code N
Specific Information:
Code 9 'Other territories (Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Christmas Island and Jervis Bay Territory)' is not collected in the Dwelling (occupied and vacant) cluster.
 Number 1 mandatory 1
Dwelling—dwelling identifier, X[X(14)] String 15 mandatory 1
Dwelling—housing program type, (public housing/SOMIH) code N - - mandatory 1
3 Household (housing assistance) cluster
Conditional Inclusion:

Conditional on the basis of a household tenanting a SOMIH dwelling during the collection period.
  • [Housing assistance: Superseded]
 conditional 1
Reference Data Element Data Type Length Inclusion #
Dwelling—dwelling identifier, X[X(14)] String 15 mandatory 1
Dwelling—housing program type, (public housing/SOMIH) code N - - mandatory 1
Dwelling—number of occupants, total people N[N]
Specific Information:

The number of occupants refers to the number of household members who are listed on the tenancy agreement, and living in the dwelling at June 30th. Persons who are not listed on the tenancy agreement should be excluded.

 - - mandatory 1
Dwelling—weekly market rent value, total Australian currency N[NNNNN].NN
Specific Information:
The market rent value refers to the weekly amount at June 30th.
 Currency 8 mandatory 1
Household—assessable income (weekly), total Australian currency N[NNNNN].NN
Specific Information:

The assessable weekly income refers to the weekly amount at June 30th.

Assessable income is also used to calculate the rental housing rebate, which allows the household to pay a rent lower than the market rent. Each state and territory uses its own definition of 'assessable income'.

 Currency 8 mandatory 1
Household—Australian state/territory identifier, code N Number 1 mandatory 1
Household—disability status, yes/no code N Number 1 mandatory 1
Household—greatest need indicator, yes/no code N Number 1 mandatory 1
Household—gross income (weekly), total Australian currency N[NNNNN].NN
Specific Information:
The gross weekly income refers to the weekly amount at June 30th.
 Currency 8 mandatory 1
Household—household identifier, X[X(14)] - - mandatory 1
Household—Indigenous status, yes/no code N
Specific Information:

The Public Rental Housing and SOMIH collections do not collect Indigenous status according to the ABS standard. The following table describes the values used to record Indigenous status for these collections, and demonstrate that a one to one relationship cannot be made to the standard.

Standard METeOR Value Standard METeOR Label PRH/SOMIH Value PRH/SOMIH Label
1 Aboriginal but not Torres Strait Islander 1 Indigenous (not further defined)
2 Torres Strait Islander but not Aboriginal 1 Indigenous (not further defined)
3 Both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander 1 Indigenous (not further defined)
4 Neither Aboriginal nor Torres Strait Islander 2 Neither Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander
9 Not stated/Inadequately described 9 Not stated/Inadequately described

 Number 1 mandatory 1
Household—rent charged (weekly), total Australian currency N[NNNNN].NN
Specific Information:
The weekly rent charged refers to the amount at June 30th.
 Currency 8 mandatory 1
Household—transfer status (financial year), Yes/no code N Number 1 mandatory 1
5 Person income (housing assistance) cluster
Conditional Inclusion:

Conditional on the basis of a household tenanting a SOMIH dwelling during the collection period.
  • [Housing assistance: Superseded]
 conditional 1
Reference Data Element Data Type Length Inclusion #
Dwelling—housing program type, (public housing/SOMIH) code N - - mandatory 1
Household—household identifier, X[X(14)] - - mandatory 1
Person—Australian state/territory identifier, code N
Specific Information:
Note: Code 9 'Other territories (Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Christmas Island and Jervis Bay Territory)' is not collected in the Person income (Public rental housing and SOMIH) cluster.
 Number 1 mandatory 1
Person—person identifier (household), X[X(14)] String 15 mandatory 1
Data Elements
Reference Data Element Data Type Length Inclusion #
No data elements have been assigned to this grouping.

Comments

Guide for use:

All jurisdictions are asked to supply the single/couple codes in 2010–11 data extractions. Previously, a household’s bedroom requirement has been calculated using the Proxy Occupancy Standard (POS), however under NAHA reporting requirements, the match of a dwelling to household size is based on Canadian National Occupancy Standard (CNOS).

New low income cut–off measures for low income households based on new definition under NAHA.

 

Origin:
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). Public rental housing and SOMIH national data collection: processing manual 2010-2011. Canberra: AIHW.

 

Comments:

 

 

 

In the 2010-11 collection the following changes have been made to the data set specification:

  • In the Dwelling history file: the data items VACRSN, VADCESC and VACTYPE have been retired and replaced by a new variable VAC_DDV which is populated with a standard set of vacancy reason codes.
  • In the Person income file: the data items INC_TYPE and INC_DESC have been retired.

 

References

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 2006. National Housing Assistance Data Dictionary Version 3 (Housing Assistance Data Development Series). AIHW cat. no. HOU 147. Canberra: AIHW.
This content Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Attribution provided as required under the AIHW CC-BY licence.

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Relation Count
As a numerator in an Indicator 1
As a denominator in an Indicator 0
As a disaggregation in an Indicator 0