Housing and Locational Preferences, Adelaide Statistical Division

NAME OF ORGANISATION
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)

OVERVIEW

Survey of Adelaide households to determine housing history, ownership, reasons for moving and characteristics of current and previous dwellings and neighbourhoods.

PURPOSE

To provide a basis for State Government decision-making to achieve greater levels of efficiency from existing and intended residential land. Information required to assist this decision-making process includes factors influencing the choice of housing types and location, attitudes to housing types and the relationships between demographic variables and the former.

SCOPE

Households living in the Adelaide Statistical Division in private dwellings except:

1. members of the permanent defence forces;
2. certain diplomatic personnel of overseas governments, customarily excluded from census and estimated populations;
3. overseas residents in Australia; and
4. members of non-Australian defence forces (and their dependants) stationed in Australia.

Coverage

As per the Labour Force Survey, coverage rules are applied which aim to ensure that each person/household is associated with only one dwelling, and hence has only one chance of selection. The chance of a person/household being enumerated at two separate dwellings in the one survey is considered to be negligible.

Persons/households who are away from their usual residence for six weeks or less at the time of interview are enumerated at their usual residence (relevant information may be obtained from other usual residents present at the time of the survey)

DATA DETAIL

Conceptual framework

Information was collected from households in the Adelaide Statistical Division on:

• current, previous and probable future dwelling types and tenure
• household income and housing costs
• age of, and problems with, current dwelling
• reasons for moving - previous and future
• attitudes to dwelling types, Adelaide's character and possible changes to Adelaide

Current dwelling type by tenure

Tenure by income/housing costs/future tenure

Age of dwelling by problems

Reasons for recent movers moving house

Reasons for intending movers moving house

Current dwelling type by future dwelling type

Classifications

Basic demographic classifications (such as age, sex) are used.

Other concepts (summary)

Not applicable

GEOGRAPHIC DETAIL
South Australia
Statistical Division

Comments and/or Other Regions

Adelaide Statistical Division

COLLECTION FREQUENCY
Once Only

Frequency comments

n/a

COLLECTION HISTORY

The survey has been conducted once only and would only be repeated if funded by the SA Government.

DATA AVAILABILITY
Yes

Data availability comments