2900.0 - Census of Population and Housing: Understanding the Census and Census Data, Australia , 2016

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Understanding the Census and Census Data How we collected your information Turning your information into Census data + Understanding Census data quality + Understanding the data + Person variables + Family variables + Dwelling variables BEDD Number of Bedrooms in Private Dwelling CPAD Count of Persons Temporarily Absent from Household DLOD Dwelling Location DWTD Dwelling Type HCFMD Family Household Composition (Dwelling) HHCD Household Composition HIDD Household Income Derivation Indicator HIED Equivalised Total Household Income (weekly) HINASD Total Household Income as Stated (weekly) HIND Total Household Income (weekly) HOSD Household Suitability IFNMFD Imputation Flag for Number of Males and Females in Dwelling INGDWTD Indigenous Household Indicator LLDD Landlord Type MRED Mortgage Repayments (monthly) MV1D Household One Year Mobility Indicator MV5D Household Five Year Mobility Indicator NEDD Dwelling Internet Connection NPDD Type of Non-Private Dwelling NPRD Number of Persons Usually Resident in Dwelling RNTD Rent (weekly) SAFD Supported Accommodation Flag STRD Dwelling Structure TEND Tenure Type TENLLD Tenure and Landlord Type VEHD Number of Motor Vehicles + Conceptual information About this Release History of Changes	Imputation Flag for Number of Males and Females in Dwelling (IFNMFD) This variable indicates dwellings for which no form has been received and where all persons required all demographic characteristics (age, registered marital status and place of usual residence) to be imputed and other variables to be set to 'Not stated' or 'Not applicable' as appropriate. This variable is applicable to all occupied private dwellings. How this variable is created Most occupied private dwellings (95.1%) return a completed form so the number of persons, by sex, is known. The number of males and females was imputed for the remaining 4.9% of occupied private dwellings and this variable identifies these dwellings. Imputation Flag for Number of Males and Females in Dwelling variable categories are shown below. 1 Persons not imputed into dwelling 2 Persons imputed into dwelling @ Not applicable More information about imputation can be found in the 2016 Census Dictionary. Variable history This variable was first used in the 2006 Census. The categories for this item were changed for 2016 due to the changes in dwelling enumeration. Non-response rate Non-response rate only applies to data items that directly reflect responses to individual Census form questions. This imputation flag does not have a non-response rate as it is used to indicate whether the number of males and females were imputed during Census processing for applicable households. For more information, refer to Understanding Census data quality. Data usage notes In previous Censuses field officers would collect information on number of males and females in residence during their visits to the dwelling. This information would be recorded in their collector record books and could be used instead of imputation in the event that there was no response from the dwelling. This information was not collected during the 2016 census and if a dwelling did not respond the only option was to impute the number of males and females based on similar dwellings. This flag is set during census processing. Further information A definition of Imputation Flag for Number of Males and Females is available in the 2016 Census Dictionary. Document Selection These documents will be presented in a new window.