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The National Social Housing Survey is a survey of social housing tenants which complements administrative data collected by social housing providers and includes information on tenants and their social housing experiences.
Collection details
Temporal coverage
30/6/2005 to 30/6/2021
Geographical coverage
National and State
Data availability
Publications
Summary tables published in electronic form
Statistics
Client specified tables on request which may be subject to data provider approval (charges apply).
Restricted unit record access subject to Ethics Committee approval and/or the agreement of all relevant data custodians in all states and territories (charges may apply).
There are restrictions and limitations governing the availability or use of other data in this holding.
Data scope
Participants are randomly sampled from social housing programs e.g. Public Housing (PH), State Owned and Managed Indigenous Housing (SOMIH), Community Housing (CH) and Indigenous Community Housing (ICH).
The AIHW managed the NSHS in 2005, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2021.
There have been changes to the methodology for the NSHS over time. However, minimal changes have been made to the survey since 2012 to support time-series analysis.
Methodology
Survey
Metadata information and data quality statement (DQS)
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