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Definition

A person's type of residential arrangement, as represented by a code.

Components

Data Element (this item)

Representation

This representation is based on the value domain for this data element, more information is available at " Residential type code NN ".
Data Type NUMBERSTRING
Format NN
Maximum character length 2
Values
Value Meaning Start Date End Date
Permissible Values 1 House/townhouse/flat - Includes bedsits, flats attached to houses or shops.
2 Caravan
3 Tent
4 Cabin
5 Boat
6 Improvised building/dwelling
7 No dwelling/street/park/in the open - Includes those people who are sleeping in public transport, e.g. riding on trains/buses etc. because they have no other option.
8 Motor vehicle
9 Boarding/rooming house
10 Emergency accommodation - Includes night shelter/women's refuge/youth shelter.
11 Hotel/motel/bed and breakfast
12 Hospital (excluding psychiatric) - Includes hospitals and other health care facilities but not specialised prison health facilities.
13 Psychiatric hospital/unit - Includes mental health units and forensic health units of corrective services systems.
14 Disability support - Includes all units whose primary role is disability support.
15 Rehabilitation - Includes facilities that cater for drug and alcohol rehabilitation. Excludes rehabilitation in prisons and correctional facilities.
16 Adult correctional facility - Includes those facilities whose main role is to detain and rehabilitate adult prisoners.
17 Youth/juvenile justice correctional centre - Includes those facilities whose main role is to detain and rehabilitate youth or juveniles. Community custodial facilities are included in this category.
18 Boarding school/residential college
19 Aged care facility - Includes nursing home, aged care hostel or non-self contained accommodation for the aged.
20 Immigration detention centre
21 Other
Supplementary Values 99 Not stated/inadequately described

Comments

The combined fields of dwelling, tenure and conditions of occupancy can be used to create indicators of housing circumstances (homeless/at risk, stable/unstable, etc).

Related content

Relation Count
Input in Derivations 2
Output in Derivations 0
Inclusion in Data Set Specifications 1
Inclusion in Data Distributions 5
As a numerator in an Indicator 0
As a denominator in an Indicator 0
As a disaggregation in an Indicator 0