Income and Housing Costs Survey, 2000-01, Basic and Expanded
 

The files to be released consist of unidentified individual statistical records containing data on 13,193 persons belonging to 8,410 income units from 6,786 households in private dwellings. The data include State, capital city/balance of state and section of state identifiers; Australian SEIFA deciles; income unit type; relationship in family and household; age, sex, social 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 weekly and annual income for households.

The Basic CURF is available on CD-ROM or via the Remote Access Data Laboratory (RADL). The Expanded CURF is only available via the RADL.

The differences between the Basic and Expanded CURFs are:

Additional geographic detail on the Expanded CURF:

  • state/territory (ACT and NT available separately;
  • section of state (major urban, other urban, other);
  • capital city/balance of state; and
  • SEIFA index of relative socio-economic disadvantages in deciles.


Additional details on the Expanded CURF:
  • age in single years;
  • occupation at the sub-major group level;
  • industry more detailed (mix between division, sub-division and combined sub-divisions);
  • country of birth and year of arrival more detailed (as per standards);
  • hours worked items in single hours, with topcode, instead of grouped hours;
  • duration of unemployment in single weeks with topcode, instead of ranges;
  • status in employment more detailed;
  • month left school in single months, not grouped;
  • highest post-school qualification more detailed;
  • no topcoding on the number of children of different ages but there is masking of records that will reveal topcoding details in household size; and
  • household size topcode of 8 or more persons, not 6 or more.

For more information, please see the Survey of Income and Housing: Expanded Confidentialised Unit Record File, Technical Paper (cat. no. 6541.0).