Definition
Home purchase assistance for the purpose of this collection 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.
Excludes:
- non-financial assistance, e.g. home purchase advisory and counselling services
- home renovation/maintenance services
- sale to tenant programs
- 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 2011-12 financial year are within the scope of this collection.
Any households that received transfers of home purchase assistance in the 2011-12 financial year are within the scope of this collection.
Households that received transfers of home purchase assistance in the 2011-12 financial year are those that commenced receiving home purchase assistance in the 2011-12 financial year and those that commenced receiving ongoing home purchase assistance in a previous financial year and continued to receive that assistance in the 2011-12 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 | # | ||||||||||||
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Address: Australian Postcode, (Postcode datafile) NNNN
Specific Information:
This item is used to collect the dwelling postcode.
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Number | 4 | mandatory | 1 | |||||||||||||
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Address—suburb/town/locality name, text X[X(45)]
Specific Information:
This item is used to collect the suburb in which the dwelling is located. The field for suburb name may be truncated to 15 characters in this collection.
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- | - | mandatory | 1 | |||||||||||||
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Dwelling—Australian state/territory identifier, code N
Specific Information:
In the Home purchase assistance collection, the value "9 = Other territories (Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Christmas Island and Jervis Bay Territory)" is not used. |
Number | 1 | mandatory | 1 | |||||||||||||
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Household—financial assistance amount received, total Australian currency N[NNNNN].NN
Specific Information:
Only the value of assistance provided between 01/07/2011 and 30/06/2012 should be included. The value of assistance provided before or after this date should be excluded, therefore:
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Currency | 8 | mandatory | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Household—gross income (weekly), total Australian currency N[NNNNN].NN | Currency | 8 | mandatory | 1 | |||||||||||||
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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 | |||||||||||||
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Person: Date of Birth, DDMMYYYY
Specific Information:
The 2011-12 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 | |||||||||||||
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Person—person identifier (household), X[X(14)]
Specific Information:
In the Home Purchase Assistance collection, this item refers to the unique identifier of the main applicant. The main applicant identifier should be the same person identifier that is used by the social housing authority across different housing programs. This field may be used to link private rent assistance records with corresponding public rental housing, state owned and managed Indigenous housing, and/or home purchase assistance records. If no such identifier exists, this field should be left blank. |
String | 15 | mandatory | 1 | |||||||||||||
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Service event—assistance received date, DDMMYYYY
Specific Information:
The 2011-12 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 2011-12 financial year. The originating date of assistance will precede 1/7/2011 whenever households commenced receiving an ongoing form of assistance in a previous financial year and continued to receive that assistance in the 2011-12 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 2011-12 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 2010-11 financial year and continue to receive mortgage relief in the 2011-12 financial year, then the assistance received date for mortgage relief will be when it was first provided in the 2010-11 financial year. |
Date/Time | 8 | mandatory | 1 | |||||||||||||
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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:
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 |
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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 |