The 1996-97 Survey of Income and Housing Costs CURF consists of unidentified individual statistical records containing data on 14,595 persons belonging to 9,276 income units in private dwellings including State and capital city/rest of State identifiers (ACT and NT combined with no part of State); household, family and income unit types; age, sex, marital status, birthplace and year of arrival in Australia; labour force details (some items for up to eight sequential months) including occupation, industry and hours worked; qualifications, student status and other details of education; details of mortgages and loans; housing costs, type of tenure and landlord, number of bedrooms and type of dwelling structure; taxes and details of weekly and annual income by fine level source of income for persons and income units, and for units in NSW, Victoria, Queensland and WA the decile of SEIFA index for socio-economic disadvantage.

More information about the CURF is provided in the Technical Paper available below. Information in the Technical Paper was correct at time of publication.


Survey of Income and Housing - Confidentialised Unit Record File, Technical Paper (Reissue) 1996-97