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Definition

The Location Cluster defines information relating to the country of birth, country of residence, and geographic location (postcode, Statistical area level 1 and state/territory of usual residence) of a recipient of Centrelink benefits.

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 #
Address: Australian postcode, Code 0.1
Specific Information:

Refers to the postcode of the recipient.

String 4 mandatory 1
Address: State or territory, Code 0.1
Specific Information:

State or territory of usual residence refers to the variable ADDR_STATE_CODE in the PIA research data set.

CharacterString 3 mandatory 1

Related content

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

Contained in the following datasets

  • Priority investment approach research DSS
    Statuses: Unregistered
    The Priority Investment Approach (PIA) research data set specification (DSS) defines longitudinal social security information related to Centrelink recipients and their...
    (mandatory)